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A Valentine’s Day Breakup Letter to My Cheap Freelance Client

Dear Freelance Client,

There’s no easy way to say this.

I put this off as long as I could, tossing and turning in bed, arguing with myself as to whether or not I should write this email.

I know this Friday was supposed to be the most romantic day of the year, the day that we looked into each other’s virtual eyes and imagined a lifetime of happiness together. But instead of snacking on heart-shaped chocolate and dreaming of your email address, I have to tell you…

I’m leaving you.

I remember when we started our relationship, when you replied to my email saying yes, you wanted to hire me! My heart leapt, and I had butterflies in my chest at the sight of every email you sent me.

But now, things have changed. Instead of feeling happy when I think of you, I have other, less positive emotions. Stress, sadness, and anger run through me at the mere mention of your name.

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By Sophie Lizard

How to Sell Your Blogging Services While You Sleep

When a potential client lands on your freelance writer website, what’s the one thing you want them to do?

Contact you, right? Get in touch and let you know what they’re looking for. After all, you need to negotiate the project scope, the timescales… there’s a lot to do before you can finalise that sale, and you need the client to give you a ton of information before you can even guesstimate your fee.

Or, you could make the sale faster and simpler. Let your clients buy your services there and then, if you want.

All you have to do is package them appropriately and set up an automated sales process to handle the transactions for you. Once that’s done, a visitor can land on your website and buy your blogging services even while you’re asleep. 🙂

If that sounds like it’s easier said than done, well, it takes a little time —mostly thinking time— but it isn’t difficult to set up.

I’ll walk you through the whole process in this post, so you can get going with this idea immediately.

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By Sophie Lizard

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.

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By Carol Tice

5 Simple Ways Freelance Bloggers Can Move Up to Well-Paid Article Writing

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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By Williesha Morris

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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