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All of us who make our living as freelance writers know how much work goes into drumming up clients. Eventually it gets easier, but initially it can be difficult, especially if the rent is due and you have no projects lined up. Finding A Broader Freelance Writing Market is a good way to expand your options and get work.
Most freelancers know enough to check the obvious places by doing an online search. Just in case you’re sitting there in a panic, wondering what I mean, type “freelance writing jobs” into your browser, then go nuts reading and applying for gigs. Personally, I like using Genuinejobs.com. They email me with the newest listings each week, so I don’t have to go hunting for them, but do what works for you. There are a ton of job resources for writers on the web, so there’s no lack of opportunity. To get you started, there are a few listed in a hub that I wrote awhile back.
Try to keep in mind that there are markets outside of the online world. I started my writing career submitting articles to newspapers and magazines. Depending on the market, it can be a very lucrative business. The guidelines for print publications are available in books like The Writer’s Market, and many can be found on the publisher’s websites.
Other offline markets could include: brick and mortar businesses, theatres, corporations and charities. Perhaps you could do some article or content writing for their websites, or give them pricing on doing a monthly newsletter for them.
What we writer types often forget, is that we are self-promoting salespeople. We may not like that part of the process, but it’s necessary to our financial survival. As luck will have it though, we also wonderfully creative beings that can imagine all sorts of selling scenarios guaranteed to fatten our job list and our wallets.
Finding A Broader Freelance Writing Market – A Challenge.
In an effort to encourage freelance writers, I have a gift for each writer who does something within the next week that broadens their market search. Leave the details of you what you did in the comments section, and then check back to see if your gift has been sent.
The prize is the link to a new site that lets you choose topics immediately, write about them, then get paid every week. Write as many articles as you want, as long as there are topics in the pool – your pay is figured out according to how many words you’ve written. The site’s only been around a week, so it’s brand spanking new. I’ve been using it myself as one of the beta testers, it’s great and I got paid. I will continue to get paid every Monday provided I write at least one article during the week. A sweet, reliable gig. Good luck, get your creative juices flowing!
P.S. I am a writer on this site, but have no other affiliations with it, in case that matters to you.
This is a guest post by Shirley Anderson.
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