Make REAL money blogging for hire.
If you’re looking to grow your freelance writer portfolio, you may be ignoring the low-hanging fruit of the freelance writer world: regional and local print magazines and blogs.
Don’t write these usually free local magazines off. They make money from local ads for small businesses and they need and pay local writers for niche or lifestyle topics.
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If you’re in Canada, you might be wondering where all the Canadian freelance writing gigs are. You’ve got the hometown advantage when pitching to Canadian publications (and some of them pay extremely well too). But most freelance writing job lists only include a handful of them.
So where are they?
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Tired of earning small money for paid blogging? If you’re looking to move up, article writing can be a great next step in your freelance career.
After all, you already know how important headlines are online. And you know how to focus an idea into an article-sized slice, organizing it into subheads or a bulleted/numbered list.
All great fundamentals for article writing.
How can you cross over from the world of $50 blog posts to earning $1 a word and more for articles?
Here are five proven paths for moving up to writing articles:
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Think nobody’s looking for freelance politics writers?
Think again. Black Lives Matter, vaccine mandates, climate change, and fair wages are still making headlines. If it affects their readers, blogs and magazines want to publish it.
Social justice, politics, and the people fighting for or facing hardship because of public policies aren’t going away. If you love writing about these emotion-triggering topics, get ready to start pitching.
You may run out of time or energy…but you won’t run out of publications to pitch.
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Looking to cash in on your love of beautiful places?
You really can make some moolah writing about fashion, beauty, interior design, gardens, and even architecture and building design.
Seriously, maybe it’s time to become a freelance design writer.
Anyone who’s tried to redo their kitchen or create a new, original look from scratch has learned it the hard way. Not everyone has a talent for decorating spaces or people.
If you’ve got this gift, stop pretending it’s no big deal.
But wait a minute…what kinds of credentials do you need to write about style, design, or architecture? They’re not just going to pay you because you can color coordinate like the wind, are they?
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