Freelance Jobs

Automate Job Listings: It’s All About RSS

Every morning, I browse through more than a hundred job listings from a variety of websites. When I first started out, the process could take me more than an hour: opening a whole bunch of book marks, sorting through emails and so forth. But I’ve got a secret weapon that drops that time down to [...]

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Comment Response: Three Thoughts

I write for a lot of online markets: blogs, publications and other places that post articles. Most of the sites where my work is published allow comments — when they don’t outright request them. That means that there are a whole lot of responses to my writing out there that I have to decide whether [...]

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Blogger For Hire: Can You Make Money?

A big chunk of my freelance writing income these days comes from writing blog posts. I’ve found it pretty easy to find positions blogging — as long as you have a pretty solid online presence yourself. But there’s trouble in Paradise: the money from blogging isn’t always that great. The Per-Post Trap It’s not uncommon [...]

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Review: Using the Social Web to Find Work

Chris Brogan is offering up a free e-book, titled Using the Social Web to Find Work. I think this is a topic that freelance writers absolutely need to pay attention to — most of us take on at least some online work and we all know that the good paying gigs aren’t likely to show [...]

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Catching Journalists on the Rebound

I received an extremely interesting press release from Suite101 last week: the company is reaching out to journalists who have recently been laid off and offering them an immediate job. While Suite101 does hire freelancers on a regular basis, they’re offering to jump anyone who has been laid off to the front of the line. [...]

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Freelance Writing As Seasonal Income

While I was chatting with a friend this week, I heard a completely unexpected question: could she make some seasonal money as a freelance writer? She wants to earn a little extra money before Christmas and she was wondering if writing would be an easy way to do it. I managed to keep from laughing. [...]

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The State of the Blogosphere

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere Report for 2008 is out, and things are pretty positive for those of us who make our livings by stringing words together. According to the report, blogs are pervasive and a part of our daily lives. They’re mainstream. Many businesses have them, and those companies without blogs on their websites [...]

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Social Media: The Freelancer’s New Best Friend

Universal McCann completed a survey of social media recently and discovered something very interesting: despite the problems with the economy, social media is going strong. The numbers of people consuming social media are going up. (More information on the survey itself is here.) While not all writers are social media gurus — and vice versa [...]

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Fiction Contests: Worth Your While?

As a general rule, I don’t write a lot about fiction around here. It’s not that a successful business can’t focus on fiction, but it is difficult. The pay scale for short stories and even novels is significantly smaller than non-fiction options. But, if you enjoy writing fiction, I think it’s a reasonable idea to [...]

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Defining the Permalancer

I’ve heard of companies looking for permalancers here and there, and I’ve always been a bit intrigued. A permanent freelancing gig? Guaranteed work I don’t have to go chasing down? What’s not to like? Unfortunately, most permalancing opportunities, when you read a little closer, just aren’t so appealing. Generally, these employers — and trust me, [...]

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