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Writing for Money: Little Jobs, Big Success
Want to write for money? There’s a huge amount of writing work available at the moment. You’ll soon get hired, but you may not be targeting the best jobs for you. In this article I’ll talk about the little jobs which can grow your career into a huge success.
Cash flow counts. Experienced writers know that you need to have money coming in regularly. Therefore, it makes sense to accept lots of little projects.
Larger projects always take more time than you expect, and because you’re working with other people, can absorb a lot of your energy. Much of that energy is wasted, because the extra work has nothing to do with the writing itself.
With little jobs on the other hand, you’re usually working alone, which means that you can get more done, with less fuss.
Here are some tips to help you.
1. Everyone Wants Content: Relish the Little Jobs
These days it seems every business is on the Web and every business wants content for its website. This means that there’s a huge number of little writing jobs available which you can accomplish quickly.
For example, you’ll often be asked to write several webpages for a website; this is relatively quick and easy to do.
2. Cash on Delivery? Maybe, but Get a Deposit
I’ve often shared my theory that little jobs in the aggregate pay better than larger projects. However, when they’re working with many clients, new writers often end up chasing slow payers.
There’s a simple solution. On ultra-small jobs, which pay you less than $500, ask for the full amount up front. If the job’s worth more, and you’ve taken a deposit, always send the client an invoice, which is payable immediately, as soon as you send the final draft.
You’re a small business person, and you can’t afford to carry anyone. This means that if somebody owes you money, you follow up on it rigorously. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Remind them that the copyright remains with you, until you’ve been paid in full.
3. Create a Checklist: Your Process Keeps You Sane
You need a writing process. Your process is a set routine which you follow on each and every job.
It helps to have a checklist. Keep a checklist as a template, and create a new copy for each job you undertake. As you complete each task, mark it done on your checklist.
New writers fret when I mention checklists. They believe that a process will somehow harm their creativity. On the contrary, you’ll find that you’re much more creative if you’re not wondering what the next task is. With your checklist in hand, you’ll know exactly what you need to do next on every project.
4. Bored? Great, You’re Growing
Occasionally you’ll become bored. This means that the type of writing that you’re doing has become too routine for it to challenging. Switch to a different form of writing.
When you make the switch, let’s say from blogging to copywriting for example, initially you won’t be making as much money as you were. However, your regular clients will still be sending you work, and this will cover you until you have built a reputation in the new area.
You should be pleased if you feel bored. It means that you’re growing as a writer and are becoming more skilled and proficient.
Enjoy your professional writing, and remember that little jobs can lead to big success.
“Go From Zero To Making $250 Per Hour For Web Writing – Kick Off Your Web Writing Career In 24 Hours!”
There’s great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.
Want to jump on this opportunity? No matter what your level of writing skill, you can make great money writing for the Web too.
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Write Articles and Get Paid: Three Creative Ways
If you want to make money writing, you’ll have noticed that there are endless writing jobs. Unfortunately, the sad fact is that 95 per cent of the jobs pay a pittance.
(Actually, “pittance” might be praising them too highly.)
I’ve been writing for 30 years, so here’s a few words of advice.
STOP taking these “jobs.”
You can do better.
Here are three simple ways.
1. Create Packages of PLR Articles and Sell Them
“PLR” means Private Label Rights content. You can learn more about PLR here.
Many Sell Your Writing Online NOW SYWON members make their first real Web writing income by writing PLR.
PLR content, in the form of articles, ebooks and Web content lets you leverage the time you spend writing.
This is essential, because you need to get away from trading hours for dollars as soon as possible.
2. Write Articles for High-Paying Markets
Also, as soon as possible, stop writing for markets which pay you a pittance.
Of course, to write for $1 a word and more, you’ll need to lift your game.
Where do you find these markets? They’re everywhere. Most major sites pay for content. However, please understand that they don’t advertise this. Why would they? They’d be inundated with unsuitable material.
So, you’ll need to content the editors at these sites.
3. Develop an In-Demand Specialty
Markets which pay well want experts, rather than “writers.” However, they don’t want REAL experts. (Real experts in an area generally can’t write.) they want writers who know an area very well — who’ve researched and have written about a specific area.
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Time to Write: One Secret So You’ll Have Time for Web Writing
No time to write? Time management is a challenge for everyone, including my Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscribers.
I sent out a message to my Fab Freelance Writing Ezine this morning, sharing one time management secret. I’d like to share it with you, too.
Here’s one simple secret to finding time to write, and much more: visualization.
Visualization: the secret to regularly “seeing” the successful completion of all your tasks and projects
Without the ability to visualize, you wouldn’t achieve anything; you wouldn’t even get out of bed in the morning. We all visualize, every moment of every day. When you realize this, you begin to realize just how effective visualization can be in all areas of your life. Basically, visualizing is just thinking – imagining what you want, rather than what you don’t want.
Do you doubt that you visualize constantly?
Let’s see. Think about lunch. What do you “see”? You’ll see or feel something.
You may not see a picture of your favorite coffee shop; some people don’t visualize in image form: they get a feeling, or hear the noise of the coffee machine hissing, and hear people chatting – so don’t imagine that you can’t visualize, because you can’t get a clear image in your mind. Whichever way (images in your mind, sounds, feelings) visualization works for you is the right way.
Now think about “no time to write”? What are you visualizing now? You may see yourself rushing around, perhaps you’re arguing with your partner because you can’t find time to do things together, or you’re picturing the morning rush, when you’re trying to get the family fed and out the door.
Now think about “plenty of time”… Remember, whatever you “see” when you hear these words is fine. You may see yourself lounging around the hotel pool on vacation, or having breakfast in bed on a Sunday morning.
Visualization can help you in everything you do, including finding time to write. You’ll find a lot more on self and time management in my Time to Write guide.
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Top ten tips to help you to write fast
The more you write, the more you earn.
I posted this to my writing blog, and I’m sure you’ll find the tips useful. Angela Booth’s Writing Blog: Top Ten Tips to Help You to Write Fast:
“Do you want to write fast and well? The ability to convey your ideas quickly and easily will help you in everything you want to do, so it’s a skill that’s well worth developing.
Writing speed develops with practice, however there are tricks which will help you.
Here are ten of my favorite tricks, developed over 30 years of writing.
1. Write First, Research Later
When you’re starting a new project, it’s tempting to spend time researching. However, you won’t know what facts you need, until you’re in the middle of writing, and often not until you’ve completed an initial draft.
Therefore, write your first draft without giving any thought to what you don’t know.
I use free writing to get down a first draft as quickly as I can. If I need to research something, I’ll put a note right in the draft, in brackets, or I’ll type ‘XXX’.
Writing a draft before researching helps to eliminate procrastination.”
Here’s a tip I left out: Only writing is writing. Thinking about writing isn’t writing. Nor is reading your email, responding to clients, or surfing the web. COUNT the words you write everyday. Just keeping a word count makes a difference.
“Go From Zero To Making $250 Per Hour For Web Writing – Kick Off Your Web Writing Career In 24 Hours!”
There’s great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.
Want to jump on this opportunity? No matter what your level of writing skill, you can make great money writing for the Web too.
Get a full year of weekly assignments; become a Web writing pro with Sell Your Writing Online NOW.
Make money with your listing on ContentBee
As a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) member, you receive a free listing on ContentBee.
Here’s how to maximize the value of this listing.
1. Reference your entry in ContentBee (and your SYWON) membership when you apply for writing jobs.
As a new Web writer, you need to show that you’re efficient and trustworthy. (No one wants to hire a "writer" who may skip off into the sunset with their money and confidential company information.)
Your entry in ContentBee shows that you’re serious about your career, and that you’re training in Web writing.
2. Reference your entry in ContentBee on your Web site. Again, your entry in ContentBee shows that you’re a trained Web writer, rather than someone who just calls himself a writer.
Your links on ContentBee and Writing Hacker are valuable; so use them. 
If you haven’t yet sent me your link and Contentbee blurb, please do that today.
High writing goals equal a high income
Are you setting your goals too low? In next week’s Fab Freelance Writing Ezine our topc is “Create a Six-Figure (and Beyond) Writing Income”.
Learn more — Make money writing | Work from home | Writing jobs — Angela Booth’s Fab Freelance Writing Blog:
"Are you setting limits on your success as a writer? Most writers do; they’re setting their sights too low. They may achieve small success, but never achieve their potential, because they aim too low. Want to free yourself from self-imposed limitations? That’s the theme of next week’s issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine."
You have all the information you need to become a six-figure writer in Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON); just remember to be aware that only you can limit your income.
Web publishing: one Squidoo account or many?
If you’re a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscriber, you know that I recommend that you get comfortable with Squidoo, and use it in your writing campaigns.
I don’t use Squidoo as much as I should, and that’s only because I don’t have enough time; I always seem to be working on one of my sites, or creating a new product.
One of the debating points in the Squidoo community is: should you have one account, or many?
I’m in the one account camp, chiefly because I don’t have hundreds of lenses. If you do get around 200 or more lenses, I can see where additional accounts would make sense.
Captain Squid, in “When Are Multiple Squidoo Accounts Useful?” says:
…you are seriously diluting a lot of the power you can get from having a unified account.
From the dashboard, lens labels are spectacular for handling different sections of lenses or groups. I have labels for both verticals or themes as well as by aff. network or marketing strategy. Multiple accounts make tracking this stuff a total pain.
I agree. Unless you spend all your time in Squidoo, there’s no point in having more than one account. However, to each his/ her own. It may work for you.
Writing mini sites: using your writing skills to make money
Many writers are making the switch to Web writing. One of the benefits of writing for the Web is that you can use your skills to make money — you can create websites and monetize them in various ways.
I’ve got several hundred sites and I know writers who have 1000 sites. This perhaps seems incredible. If you’re a new writer, or you’re not used to Web writing, you’re thinking “why would anybody want that many sites”?
Read the rest of this entry »
Get all the writing jobs you want
I’ve just posted a new article at the Fab Freelance Writing Blog which will help you to get writing jobs.
Here’s an excerpt:
Are you a new freelance writer who’s worrying about the competition? Relax. To all intents and purposes, your only competition is with yourself. You’re unique, and so are your clients: you just need to find the perfect clients for YOU.
Here are four steps to boosting your freelance writing income, and beating your “competition.”
Enjoy.
“3. Develop Your Writing Skills: Spend Time Learning Every Day” is especially applicable to your work with Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) — at the end of your Web writing training, you’ll have great writing skills, and these translate to money.
Make extra money from writing: write articles
If you’re looking for a part time job, consider using your writing skills and writing Web articles. You can make more than you would doing other part time work, and you can work from home.
When you write online, you don’t need to be a literary genius, because people are not reading online, they’re skimming for information. This means that writing speed and efficiency are more important than talent.
In next week’s Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, I discuss making money writing articles.
Here’s an excerpt:
It’s very easy to make money online with articles; the more you write, the more income you make. However, it’s essential that you PLAN and take a long term view because you need to get known as a competent, reliable article writer first.
Once you’re known for the quality of your work, you can charge more, and you’ll quickly build up a stable of clients who buy articles from you every month.
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