Be a Freelance Blogger

Business Skills for Freelance Bloggers (How to Survive and Grow Your Income)

When you decided to become a freelance blogger, did you immediately write up a 5-year business development plan? Calculate a full financial forecast?

If you did, you have everyone’s permission to skip this blog post and order more champagne while you wait for the rest of us to catch up.

But most freelance bloggers start with a talent for writing and then pick up a bit of business sense along the way. If that sounds more like you, don’t worry — you can still grow your blogging into a lucrative business. We just need to fill some of the gaps in your understanding of how your business works.

Here’s the important part, though: you need to fill the knowledge gaps in your business now, because every month they go unfilled is another month you go without the money you deserve. [Read more…]

By Carol Tice 2 Comments

Freelance Blogging Work Dried Up? 5 Quick Steps to Get Back in Business

Has your freelance blogging work evaporated since COVID-19 hit and ‘isolation’ became the most-used word of 2020? Blog clients ghosting you, all of a sudden?

If so, don’t sit wringing your hands. Realize that rapid turnover is a hallmark of recession times.

Swing into action to replace your lost blog-writing jobs with these 5 steps. This action plan focuses on the fastest routes to landing clients quickly: [Read more…]

By Sophie Lizard 92 Comments

What Your Freelance Blogging Portfolio Says About You: How Clients Decide Who to Hire

Does the thought of a potential client checking out your freelance blogging portfolio make you so nervous, you get the hiccups?

When you’re freelancing, your portfolio is one of your biggest assets. It can get you hired on the spot, or dumped on the pile of instantly forgotten applicants who failed to impress.

So let’s ask the obvious question: what does your portfolio say about you? [Read more…]

By Philipp Meier 12 Comments

How to Find an Email Address for Any Blog Editor in Minutes

You have a brilliant idea for a blog post.

You know how to pitch.

You’ve read the blog’s masthead, contact page, and About page.

You’ve worked out which editor to pitch to. Your fingers are twitching to type out your pitch and send it right away.

But you don’t see their email address listed on the site, and you have no clue how the fudge you’re supposed to find it out.

Sound familiar?

Don’t fret, and don’t give up hope of getting your pitch into your dream editor’s hands.

I’ve been through this challenge myself, and I found some simple online tools that helped me get the email addresses I wanted.

Here’s a quick walk through the 6 tools I find the most helpful, and how I use them.

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By Williesha Morris 1 Comment

From Journalism to Freelance Blogging: Here’s How to Make the Switch

Are you one of the thousands of journalists holding your breath and watching as the industry declines?

28,000 people in the United States lost their newsroom jobs between 2008 and 2018, according to the Pew Research Center. (That’s a quarter of all the news jobs in the US.)

If you work for a print publication, you’re probably taking the brunt of the downturn. But digital media isn’t off the hook. Nowadays, layoffs of digital media employees happen with frightening frequency, too.

Being laid off is nerve-wracking in any industry.

Most of us knew the downturn meant taking positions that offered lower pay. But with 25% of the jobs vanishing, that motivation is gone, and you may be wondering how to keep a roof over your head.

It’s time to channel that fear and anxiety and shape it into entrepreneurship: you’re going to make the switch from journalism to freelance blogging.

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