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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.
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Web writing: links are powerful and valuable
If you’re new to writing for the web, there’s one thing you need to know, and to remember. It’s this: relevant links are both powerful and valuable. The web is the web because of links, after all.
Links are the foundation of search engine optimization (SEO). They’re the primary way any web page is found online.
In the first few lessons of Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) web writing training, I ask you to create several sites.
Some writers tell me that they don’t need to do the “create a site” assignments in the lessons, because they already have a site. We tell them that’s great, but please follow the assignments as written, because there’s a strategy involved, and the more links they have, the better.
Just this morning, Julia wrote in response to a member query:
Start a Blogger blog; link it to your other websites. LINKS are vital; the more the merrier, and the more you’ll show up in the search engine results. So, create as many Blogger blogs as you wish. (Each blog must be genuine, and not created solely for links, that would be spam.)
That aside, there’s no limit on the number of free Blogger and WordPress.com blogs you can create, pointing back to your “real” websites. There’s a reason Angela has so many sites…
Get all the RELEVANT links you can
It’s vital that you get relevant links. As you go through the training, you’ll find that the sites you create start working for you, bringing you traffic via your links, and that as a result of the links, your income rapidly increases.
One point: please notice I said “relevant” links — not just any old links.
Relevant links are those which are relevant: they have something to do with the purpose of the site you’ve created.
Your writer’s portfolio site could have links from your clients (always ask clients to link to you from their sites; some will, some won’t). Your clients may be in many different industries. So you could have links from businesses which sell pet food, or which sell concrete rebar. Neither pet food or rebar are relevant on the face of it, BUT if they link to you using a keyword like “writer” or “freelance writer” or your name, they are relevant.
A warning: beware “we’ll get you to the top of Google” scams
Scammers love to sell linking scams. Therefore, delete any “we’ll get you to the top of Google” email messages you receive.
They’re scams. Here’s why: getting you to the first page of the search engine query results for a valuable and competitive keyword like “freelance writer” is impossible. You need to spend lots of time (and money) to achieve that.
These scammers provide you with totally irrelevant garbage links, which will get you banned from the search engines, so please don’t be misled.
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Make Money Writing: With Squidoo
We cover creating lenses with Squidoo extensively in our make money writing traing, so if you’re a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscriber, I hope you have at least three or four lenses.
I’ve always looked on Squidoo as a way of creating a presence and backlinks, rather than looking on the site as a way to make money writing.
This post "One Squidoo Lens, One month, $1,000" opened my eyes to the income generating potential of Squidoo, however:
Now I’ve earned $1,000 in a 30 day period from a single lens. That is also very very cool.
Will the earnings from this lens carry on forever? I doubt it.
Will I be able to use the lessons I’ve learned from this lens and the nearly 400 others I’ve built to continue to build lenses that make money? You betcha.
Just because of the money-making potential, I’m devoting more time to Squidoo in 2009, and I strongly suggest you to likewise — Squidoo lenses are simple to create (you should be able to create a lens from an article in under 20 minutes), and as you can see, they have great potential.
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