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How to Cope When You Hit the “Feast” in the Freelance Blogger Feast and Famine Cycle

How to Cope When You Hit the “Feast” in the Freelance Blogger Feast and Famine Cycle

“I should be grateful, but…” 

Has this ever happened to you?

For months your blogging income was stuck at near-poverty level, and you would have done anything for more work. Then, almost without warning, more work started flooding in — and suddenly, you’d do anything to get back the time it’s taking to keep up.

Three months after this first happened to me, the “feast” of work continues and so does the periodic “indigestion.”

Sure, it’s nice to be rid of the financial worries from the time when my regular income was a third of what it is now; but I hadn’t anticipated the recurring fears of inadequacy, the surges of irritability, the lows of emotional depression following the highs of frantic work.

It can be stressful being in a profession where your income rises and falls with busyness — “busyness” defined as keeping up with a LOT of small individual projects at once.

I’m learning to cope. This is, after all, the earning level I hope to stay at or above for the rest of my working days.

My top nuggets of wisdom for other freelance bloggers who’ve been served their first “feast”:

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6 Get-It-Done Tips for a Fairytale Freelance Blogging Career

6 Get-It-Done Tips for a Fairytale Freelance Blogging Career

Want to live happily ever after as a successful freelance blogger?

Then you’ve got to get stuff done, get it done well and get it done on time.

Sounds simple, but it’s not always that easy.

Looming deadlines and a rising workload are sure signs business is booming and the dream is coming true. But when the pressure starts to build and the panic’s setting in, you can find yourself lost in the writing woods.

Never fear. Whether you’re struggling to get started on a project, spinning your wheels in the messy middle or challenged by completion, together we can tame the wolves of time and reach grandma’s cottage safely (a.k.a. meet the deadlines, deliver the goods and exceed the expectations of our clients).

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Be a Well-Oiled Blogging Machine – How to Cut the Time-Wasting Crap and Get Results!

Be a Well-Oiled Blogging Machine – How to Cut the Time-Wasting Crap and Get Results!

Whether you’ve been in the freelance blogging game for years or you’re still a bit of a newb, you’ll get that there’s much to be done. Becoming a successful freelance blogger doesn’t magically happen without some seriously hard work.

There is going to be persistent blood, sweat and tears. Well hopefully the blood part will be metaphorical! Yikes! We can do this without murder I promise you 😉

So in the interests of keeping the other two to a minimum, that would be the tears and sweat, I’m going to give you some little golden nuggets of wisdom that many of our blogging veterans have learnt along the way.

Part of the fun in learning is passing this stuff on to help other freelance bloggers. We all need a bit of a leg-up at times. So here are six sure-fire ways to keep the blogging beast moving and still have time for a life!

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How to Become a Better Freelance Blogger in Only 5 Days (Without Doing Any Marketing)

How to Become a Better Freelance Blogger in Only 5 Days (Without Doing Any Marketing)

You don’t enjoy marketing?

You mean cold calling and sending 10 query emails a week doesn’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? How odd… because that’s exactly what every other freelance blogger tells me, too.

This may be reckless, but here we go:

I give you permission to slack off and skip the marketing for a while. 5 days, to be precise.

Because there are 5 things you need to do. When you’ve done them, you can go back to your marketing and it will work better because of the benefits these 5 actions bring.

Do you wish I’d just shut up and tell you what they are? OK…

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5 Steps to Make Hourly Rates Profitable as a Freelance Blogger

5 Steps to Make Hourly Rates Profitable as a Freelance Blogger

As a freelance blogger, you might have heard that you should get paid per project. Or per article, at least. That this way you won’t be penalised for working more efficiently after spending time and money improving your skills and knowledge. Better you get, faster you deliver, right? But we all know that some clients insist on paying per hour.

One of the reasons behind it is that the financial aspects of freelancing can be very confusing, and not only for the clients. And if it isn’t one of those cases where you would rather lose the deal than accept an hourly rate, your only option is to make the arrangement work for you. So here is how you do it, step by step.

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