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How to Get Freelance Writers to Work for Free
Promote your blog Many freelance writers work for free. They literally spend hours proudly branding large freelance writing sites and make practically nothing in return. What do I mean? Read on. Earlier this week, I received the following comment/question from a subscriber to my articles on AssociatedContent.com. She wrote: “WOW! If Associated Content is the Wild West of the Internet, I’ve just struck gold in finding you. What a wealth of information. ...
Continue readingInternet Marketing: How to Use the News to Drive Traffic to Your Website or Blog
Promote your blog Using the news to drive traffic to your website or blog is one of the easiest ways to increase web sales. With web tools like Google Trends and Yahoo News, it’s easy to determine what’s hot in the news. So, how do you use these tools to drive traffic to your website or blog? Follow these three steps. 3 Steps to Take to Use the News to Drive Web Traffic and Increase Sales 1. Determine What’s Hot: This is so easy. For example, if Google is ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: What’s It Really Like to Work on the Road
Making Money Even though I’ve been a freelance writer since 1993, I haven’t done much work on the road, ie, when I’m traveling. Outside of checking email, updating my blog and firing off a few proposals, I usually don’t do much in the way of actual writing when I’m away. Well, this time it’s different. I was in New York City last week (business/pleasure) and am in St. Paul, Minnesota this week (pure pleasure). During this ...
Continue readingWeb Entrepreneurs: Why an Ugly Website May be More Profitable for You
Making Money I was reading an interview featuring Markus Frind of PlentyofFish. Mr. Frind’s site is the world’s largest online dating website. According to published reports, Markus pulls in over $10,000 to $20,000 a day from Google AdSense alone. His overall income is $5 million to $10 million a year. Plentyof Fish.com is one of the ugliest sites online. It looks like a newbie web designer threw it up, got it operational and turned his interest to ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: Why Globalization Dictates Upfront Payment
Writing Thanks to the internet, more and more freelance writers are working with clients from all over the world. Email marketing is how I solicit 99% of my new clients. And, this is changing the way I do business. To explain, I’ve been a freelance writer since 1993. I’ve worked in publishing since 1987. When I first started out, most of my clients came via referrals. Hence, the need for upfront payment wasn’t necessary. In all my years of ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: Why You Should Never Give Away All Rights to Your Content
Writing There are a plethora of new sites popping up on the web where freelance writers can sell their content. This is in addition to older sites that have become very popular, eg, AssociatedContent.com, Constant-Content.com, Helium.com, etc. New Sites That Allow Freelance Writers to Sell Content I reviewed one of these new sites on my blog last week, TheSyndicatedNews.com. One of the things I like about pay-for-content sites is that you can sell your ...
Continue readingFreelance Writers: How to Prepare for the Busy Season
Making Money Freelance writing has busy seasons and slow seasons. We’re headed into the busy one. Following are some things all freelance writers should be doing to prepare for it — especially if you want to make enough to quit your job, pay off bills, save, etc. 3 Things Freelance Writers Should Be Doing Now to Prepare for the Busy Season 1. Review Pricing: This is one of the first areas I look at because it is one of the easiest ways to make ...
Continue readingSEO Copywriting Rates: How to Get $100/Article or More
Making Money Yesterday on my blog, I posted about getting to the $100/article mark for my search engine optimization (SEO) writing. I received a few emails last week from fellow freelance writers that made me realize the need to explain why/how I can command these rates — and you can too! Emails from Fellow Freelance Writers About SEO Copywriting Rates I received the following email last Tuesday from a fellow SEO writer. It read in part: Query: Several ...
Continue readingGuest Blogging: How Long Should You Wait for a Response
Blogging Guest blogging is a great way to increase your blog’s traffic. However, as blogging is still a relatively new medium, there is no set way of going about it. Who to approach, how, what to say, how long to wait for a response, etc., are all questions I still wrestle with. Guest Blogging Conundrum: To Wait, or Not to Wait for a Response? The idea for this post came to me when I was going through my guest blogging file the other night. My guest ...
Continue readingArticle Marketing: How to Write a Sales-Producing Resource Box
Promote your blog Three of the last four posts I’ve written here on blogging tips have been on the topic of article marketing. This topic sparked a lot of interest, based on the number of emails asking for more information that I received directly, and in the comments section. Hence, I thought I would wrap up this “unintentional article marketing series,” by talking about the most important part of the article, your resource box. After all, you give away ...
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