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By Dana Sitar 56 Comments

Be Picky, Get Paid to Promote Yourself, and Build Your Dream Career

Be Picky, Get Paid to Promote Yourself, and Build Your Dream Career

If you’re like most freelance writers with a dream, you do one kind of writing “by day” — the kind you get paid for — and another “by night” — the kind you love and dream of doing full-time.

If that’s you, you’re doing twice the work you need to, and you may be hurting your chances of advancing toward that dream career.

Be more choosy to make your dream career a reality.

When you’re starting out, many steady blogging jobs ask you to “be able to write with authority on a variety of topics”. You become trained to believe that in order to make money blogging, you have to know how to write about whatever a client wants you to write about. You become very skilled at internet research.

But what about the reason you write in the first place?

What about those topics you love with such passion that you pour hours every week into unpaid posts for your own blog? What of the things you choose to read about in your spare time, that you talk about in days-long Twitter conversations with people halfway round the world?

You don’t have to be a jack-of-all-trades blogger to make money. You can be choosy and stick to the topics you love. Here’s how. 

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By Nick Thacker 24 Comments

Prevent Blogging Burnout With These 7 Great Writing Tips

Prevent Blogging Burnout With These 7 Great Writing Tips

We’ve all been there: You’ve had a long, rough day at work or taking care of the kids, then you cook dinner, clean, and spend some time with the family…

…and after all that, the last thing you want to do before calling it a day is write.

It’s not just “writer’s block”; this is something else entirely. Something more sinister.

This is burnout.

If you’ve ever written yourself into the ground to meet a deadline, then you know what blogging burnout feels like.

Yet there’s no getting around it – we’re all writers, in some way or fashion, and so it’s crucial that we learn to combat this productivity killer as soon as – or before – it sets in.

Here are 7 great tips for defeating blogger burnout before it has a chance to grab hold and kill your productivity:

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By Sophie Lizard 72 Comments

Why I’ll Personally Pay You to Be a Freelance Blogger

Why I’ll Personally Pay You to Be a Freelance Blogger

Hands up if you want to make money from freelance blogging!

Did you literally put your hands up, or did you only think about it?

Either way, keep reading. I’m about to offer you a paid blogging gig.

When I first started up this blog, Jon Morrow and a whole bunch of other experts all told me the same thing: give people something valuable for free if you want them to remember your blog exists.

So I created a free resource that helps freelance bloggers save time and make money: a big list of leads to higher-paying blogging gigs, so that you can confidently ignore cheap job ads and content mills.

That’s exactly what you get in the Ultimate List of Better-Paid Blogging Gigs. This year’s edition lists 500+ blogs that will pay you $50 or more per post, including blogs that pays $500 to $1000 (or higher).

This summer, you’ll be able to get your hands on the new edition with details of more than 500 high-paying blogs that accept pitches from freelance bloggers.

And that’s the thing: I want to be on my own list, dammit!

People tell me every day how the Ultimate List has helped them find new higher-paying markets. I feel ridiculously proud every time I hear from someone who’s won their very first paid blogging gig through the list I created.

So, how much cooler would it be if you could say that your mad freelance blogging skills have been tested, approved and paid for right here?

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By Sophie Lizard 314 Comments

How Much Freelance Bloggers Earn: The Surprising Truth

How Much Freelance Bloggers Earn: The Surprising Truth

You must have wondered, “How much money could I make from freelance blogging?”

And I’m betting you’ve already got an idea in your mind of how much freelance bloggers earn.

What do you think, is $100 per post a good rate? What about 20 cents per word?

Think bigger. And, more important, think differently.

As a freelance blogger, it isn’t just your income that matters. The amount of time and effort you put into your business is crucial to determining how well-paid you really are.

It’s simple: if I asked you to choose between a job that pays $50 per hour for 40 hours per week, and one that pays $100 per hour for 20 hours per week, which job would you pick?

Yeah, I thought so. 😉

No matter which job you choose, your pay works out to $2000 each week. I’d choose the one with fewer hours, too. And we’d all be earning a six-figure income working part-time!

So, um, why hasn’t that happened yet?

Well, I have a confession to make: my average hourly rate is above $100. But I spend less than 20 hours per week freelance blogging, so I’m not super-rich.

You can earn more than me, if you want to. Many freelance bloggers do, especially if they work at it full-time.

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