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5 Easy Ways to Get More Blogging Pitches Accepted

5 Easy Ways to Get More Blogging Pitches Accepted

For a freelance blogger, especially when you’re just starting out, creating a winning pitch or application may seem like nothing short of a shot in the dark.

What if nobody replies? What if you don’t know what you’re doing wrong?

At this point far too many would-be-freelancers give up, frustrated by rejections and lack of response to what they thought were winning pitches.

Thankfully, developing the pitching skills to achieve a high rate of acceptance doesn’t have to be difficult. By following a few simple tips, you can easily boost your chances of winning in the freelance blogging pitch game.

Here are 5 easy ways to increase your freelance pitch acceptance rate.

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How to Get Paid Online Without Losing Your Money or Your Mind

How to Get Paid Online Without Losing Your Money or Your Mind

You’ve got the talent, the intelligence and the determination to make it as a freelance blogger.

But when you sell your work to clients, there’s something you might want to think about:

Are you wasting some of your hard-earned money every time your client pays your fees?

Most payment methods involve a cost, especially for online payments. If your client’s sending your money from another country, there might be an extra fee for currency conversions, too.

Some clients are darlings who want you to receive the full invoice amount, and will pay the transaction costs themselves where that’s possible. If you find one of those clients, treat them well — they’re a keeper! But most of your clients won’t spare a thought for how much you pay to receive their money. It’s none of their business.

Because it’s your business.

As a freelancer, it’s up to you to know what payment methods work well for you, and to avoid the ones that don’t. To help you do that with minimal effort, here’s a guide to the most important things you need to know about receiving online payments from your clients.

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Get Started for Freelance Blogging Success

Get Started for Freelance Blogging Success
A rocket launches into space alongside the words Get Started for Freelance Blogging Success
 

Of course you want to be a freelance blogger. Who wouldn’t?

You get the freedom to work from anywhere you like, set your own schedule, and make real money from your writing skills. Yep, that’s the life for you!

But you don’t know where to start. You’ve read so much about freelance writing and blogging, you feel like you already heard just about everything there is to say on the topic, except…

Nobody’s shown you what to do at the very beginning.

Sure, people talk about getting started, but they don’t give you the kind of detailed instructions you need when it’s your first time.

What you need is a step-by-step guide that eliminates the stress of figuring out what to do and simply helps you get it done.

So I’m going to walk you through your first 28 days as a freelance blogger, one small step at a time.

What you’ll learn

  • How to prepare your path to success (Days 1 to 3)
  • How to blog like a professional (Days 4 & 23)
  • How to identify your ideal topics and markets (Days 5 & 6)
  • How to set up your business identity and accounting (Days 7 to 10)
  • How to get a website and an impressive portfolio of work samples, fast (Days 11 & 12)
  • How to set your rates and receive payments (Days 13, 14 & 26)
  • How to find your first few clients (Days 15 & 16)
  • How to create blog ideas and pitches (Days 17 to 19)
  • How to handle contracts and negotiate with confidence (Days 20 & 21)
  • How to track your time, stay productive and cover your ass (Days 22, 24 & 27)
  • How to keep growing your freelance blogging success (Days 26 and 28)

How this works

Every day for 28 days, you’ll get an email from me with one thing to do. You do that one thing. That’s all there is to it.

You’ll take one small step at a time, so you never feel overloaded. With each step you make visible progress through a practical activity that fits easily into your schedule.

And if you need to take a break for a few days, that’s cool — your lessons will be there when you’re ready for them. This whole training is designed to help you get it done without a struggle.

Step One is yours the day you sign up.

28 days later, you’re a freelance blogger on the right track for long-term success.

How it will change your life

This training gives you the knowledge, tools and skills you need to be your own boss and make money as a freelance blogger — many of my students win their first paying gigs before they’ve even finished the course.

Here’s what students say about the Get Started program:

student testimonial

Maricel RiveraI now have two corporate clients, and they provide recurring jobs. There are two more who I work with on a per article basis… Assignments have been up to my neck lately, which is why I quit my job earlier than I had planned.
—Maricel Rivera, blogger for hire at SourcingPen.com

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About your trainer

Sophie Lizard photoHello! I’m Sophie Lizard, the founder of Be a Freelance Blogger.

When I started freelance blogging in 2009, I didn’t know what I was doing, so I made it up as I went along. I just kept taking one step at a time, not knowing if they were the right steps until later.

Luckily, I didn’t screw up too often, and I’ve “made it” as a freelance blogger. Now my clients seek me out by name and pay top rates for my blogging services.

Do you want a low-stress way to get your business up and running?
Want to get your income flowing ASAP?

Excellent. I’ll help you get off the ground, and soon you’ll be making REAL money from your brand-new freelance blogging business.

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How to Win Big Clients as a Solo Freelance Blogger

How to Win Big Clients as a Solo Freelance Blogger

Want more high-paying blogging gigs, but

don’t know WHERE and HOW to get them?

You’ve got a laptop, a way with words and a drive to succeed. But that doesn’t seem to be enough. Instead of making it big in the freelance blogging world you’re making it, um, small-to-medium.

It’s frustrating: you know you can write. You’ve seen other freelance bloggers making a real professional income from their blog posts. $100 per post. $200 per post. $300 and even more. The ads you see online don’t offer that kind of pay. What are you missing?

The reason top freelance bloggers get paid in hundreds:
client hunting skills.

Hunting for clients is a basic skill for any freelancer. It’s easy once you know how. But if you don’t know how, you’re screwed:

  • You waste time looking in all the wrong places
  • You send email after email but you don’t know if anybody reads them
  • You chicken out in negotiations and wind up working for low pay
  • In short, you’re left wondering WTF you have to do to get a well-paid blogging gig

The Freelance Blogger’s Client Hunting Masterclass is designed to get you better clients and more money.

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In this self-guided edition of the training, you’ll get exclusive video tutorials and The Freelance Blogger’s Client Hunting Handbook to walk you through them, along with bonus resources, ready-written template messages, real-life examples, tips from our guest experts, and next-step tactics for success.

What you don’t get is the one-to-one personalised support I give students on the fully-guided Client Hunting Masterclass. It’s up to you to direct and motivate your own progress through the self-guided edition, but you’ll have access to expert advice from me and from your fellow students through our private online forum.

Self-Guided Client Hunting Masterclass: $98

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THIS TRAINING IS FOR YOU IF…
  • You love blogging and devour “how to blog better” tips for breakfast, lunch and dinner
  • You’re committed to expanding your client base and finding higher-paying clients
  • You’re ready to try new ideas and see what happens
DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS COURSE IF…
  • You don’t feel confident enough to lead yourself through the training without some expert guidance —if this is you, go for the fully-guided Client Hunting Masterclass instead.
  • You can’t commit to spending at least 20 hours of your time on the course. Spread it over as many weeks as you like, but you will need to put some time into this to see results.
  • You’ve never written a blog post, article or other non-fiction. This course is about finding clients for the blogging and writing skills you already have. If you need to learn to blog, please do that first. [Ask me if you need help.]
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Here are just a few of the things you’ll learn in this training:

  • How to impress potential clients with your website and online portfolio [even if you’ve got no paid blogging samples]
  • How to know which job boards and freelance markets are worth checking [and how to create a winning application]
  • How to find potential clients on LinkedIn, Twitter and other social networks [and how to attract them to look you up]
  • How to hunt out gigs that aren’t being advertised yet [and how to track down your ideal clients online]
  • How to describe your blogging services in a way that sells itself [and write pitches that get your ideas noticed]
  • How to set your rates for your freelance blogging services [hint: higher than you think!]

How does that all sound to you?

Get started today on the Self-Guided

Freelance Blogger’s Client Hunting Masterclass

Click the yellow button for instant access to all 8 lesson videos and a downloadable copy of The Freelance Blogger’s Client Hunting Handbook to walk you through them. That means you can start whenever you like and study at your own pace. You don’t get any one-to-one support from me, but you do get access to our students-only forum for extra advice.

Self-Guided Client Hunting Masterclass: $98

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100% Money Back Guarantee

There will be no half-hearted bloggers in this training! To make sure of that, if you sign up and then wish you hadn’t, I’ll refund your money any time in the first 30 days.

I’m not gonna say “no questions asked”, because I’ll be dying to learn what changed your mind. But if it’s not right for you, all you need to do is let me know.

I was blown away by this course. I even used a technique taught during Week 6 to turn a one-off gig into an ongoing source of monthly work. I was shocked that this technique worked — it was so stupidly simple! — and it was the final thing that cinched this class in my mind as FREAKIN’ AWESOME.

This class gave me something incredibly rare among e-courses: Results. Sophie has many qualities that are invaluable in a mentor, but the one that’s most precious is this: She cares about her students as people, not as a source of income. She truly WANTS you to succeed as a freelance blogger. Even if it means kicking your butt to make it happen.

~ Lauren Tharp, Client Hunting Masterclass student and freelance writer at LittleZotz.com

Step Up!

Seriously, do you want to work with clients you love?

Do you want to earn more money in less time?

Of course you do. Let’s get started.

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5 Reasons Why Giving Clients Discounts is a Fool’s Game

5 Reasons Why Giving Clients Discounts is a Fool’s Game

Do you enjoy giving up perfectly good money to someone who probably has more than you?

No? Then this is the blog post for you.

One of the lessons I’ve learnt the hard way in my 3 years as a freelance writer is that giving clients discounts seldom works in your favour.

If you’re new to this profession, you might be swayed into giving discounts so that you can land a writing gig. I know I did. But don’t make my mistake! It’s not a good idea.

Like many freelance bloggers, I started my writing career on a bidding site. I signed up, completed my profile, wrote a few sample articles, and sent applications for every job I felt I could handle. As is the norm with new users on bidding sites, most of my applications got rejected, but once in a while I got a response from a client who was willing to hire me.

After exchanging a few messages about the job and convincing the client of my competence, I would often get a message that went something like this:

Hi Eric. We really love your work and we’d like you to join our team. We have many more projects in store for you once this is completed so we would like you to send us your best rate. What’s your hourly rate for clients who offer continuous work?

There are two ways to handle this scenario and I’ve tried them both. Want to know which one works best? 

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