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By Bree Brouwer 22 Comments

5 Blog Post Elements You Sure As Hell Deserve to Get Paid For

5 Blog Post Elements You Sure As Hell Deserve to Get Paid For

Writers tend to be underpaid. As if that wasn’t an obvious understatement, you could be even worse off as a freelance blogger.

For some reason, many businesses seem to operate under the mindset that bloggers are like enslaved robots who can pump out a crap-ton of writing for their robot-like readers [*cough*search engines*cough*] and who will accept a measly sum of cash in return for our robotic efforts.

(I may or may not have watched I, Robot last night.)

But being underpaid is not something you can afford as a freelance blogger, especially when blogging is so much more than just those short (or long) posts you type out.

You know that you have to blog the right way to attract readers, leads, and clients. And the “right way” involves more elements than your potential clients might realize, or more than even you might realize.

For example, do you charge extra if you need to find images? What about promoting your posts? These blog elements are things you can’t overlook if you want to be taken seriously as a freelancer and get paid accordingly. 

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By Francesca Nicasio 20 Comments

Want to Give Yourself a Raise? Earn It.

Want to Give Yourself a Raise? Earn It.

A lot of freelancers agonize over raising their prices. I know I did.

With no boss telling you what to do or how much you should get, it’s easy to feel anxious and confused when it comes to increasing your rates. When should you do it? How do you tell your clients? More important, how much should your new rates be?

I used to spend weeks—no, months—mulling over these things and convincing myself I deserved it. Then when I arrived at the point where I had to tell my clients how much my rates were, I still sometimes ended up backtracking on my prices.

It went on like this the first few times I had to communicate my prices, until I realized one thing: Writing my new rate sheet or telling clients how much my services cost is the easy part of the whole process.

The real work involved in increasing your prices happens BEFORE you actually raise them. 

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By Nicholas Whitmore 14 Comments

Want to Win at Freelance Blogging? Don’t Compete on Price

Want to Win at Freelance Blogging? Don’t Compete on Price

Reality check: There will always be someone offering cheaper rates than you.

There’s no doubt about it. You might be the cheapest writer on the forum or websites that you frequent, but there’s guaranteed to be someone out there doing what you do for a lower price.

While price is often number one on the list of hiring criteria that clients take into account, it’s also the one thing that you should leave well alone.

Take my advice: set your prices and stick to them. Only change them if absolutely necessary — even then, they should only be going up, not down. 

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By Sophie Lizard 49 Comments

What to Do When Your Editor Stops Answering Your Emails

What to Do When Your Editor Stops Answering Your Emails

You submitted your post last week. Should you email a reminder yet?

OK, now it’s been almost a month and you’ve heard nothing. Should you be worried?

Your follow-up email didn’t get answered. Neither did the follow-up to the follow-up.

As time creeps on, you start to feel like you must have done something wrong. Maybe the editor doesn’t like your post. Maybe they’ll never speak to you again. Maybe you won’t get paid, either.

The tension’s killing you. All you want to know is what happened?

And right now, only your editor knows the answer. But they’re not talking –at least, not to you– so it’s up to you to find out. Here’s how to cope with an editor gone AWOL: 

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By Sophie Lizard 121 Comments

Negotiate Your Rate (Without Making These 3 Mistakes)

Negotiate Your Rate (Without Making These 3 Mistakes)

Hey! Glad you could make it.

I’m just talking to a hot potential client. Bear with me and listen in for a moment…

ME: Yep, I’m available from the first of the month.

CLIENT: Great, and how much do you charge?

ME: For this project it’ll be $700 a week… Or, you know, I could probably make it $600…

Go ahead. Tap me on the shoulder. Tell me I’m an idiot. Stop me.

I wish somebody had.

That conversation actually happened last summer, and my pathetic negotiation fail cost me $100 per week for 3 months. That’s more than $1200, and I gave it up for no reason at all.

What went wrong?

Here’s how you can avoid falling into the errors I made that day: 

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