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The latest issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine is online. This week’s article is “Advertising Yourself: Get All The Writing Gigs You Want”.
Here’s an excerpt:
Want to be paid what you’re worth as a writer? If you do, you need to learn the gentle art of advertising yourself: that is, promoting yourself and your writing skills.
Many writers feel that advertising and self-promotion is a crass activity. You’ll find these same writers routinely complaining about “low pay for writers”. What these writers never realize is that other writers - the crass, self-promoting ones - are getting paid sums they’d salivate over, if only they knew.
Advertising Yourself As A Freelance Writer Makes Sense
What would you think of a restaurant which had no signs out front, no menu displayed, and which never advertised in any newspaper? Since the restaurant never bothered to advertise, it would never get any diners.
A horrifying number of freelance writers are just like that restaurant. They never bother to tell anyone that they write, and what they write. To get writing gigs, they go chasing after gigs that thousands of other writers chase after. These jobs may not be suitable for them at all, but since the writing gigs are advertised, they must be desirable.
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Web writing: to be paid what you’re worth, act like you’re worth it
May 16th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
When it comes to Web writing, both new writers and experienced writers seem to struggle with setting their rates.
Setting your rates is not difficult. If you’ve been published offline, then you’re looking for similar pay for online work. If you’re unpublished, set a reasonable rate to start with, depending on whatever qualifications you have, and create samples of the kinds of Web writing you want to do.
There are millions of Web sites. Out of all those millions, several thousand sites will be happy to hire you at the rates you wish to be paid.
Excellent point from “How to Get High Paying Freelance Writing Jobs”:
“Web writing” is not a market. It’s a collection of markets. There are low-income sites that simply can’t afford to pay higher rates. There are higher-income sites whose owners don’t know how to effectively use higher quality content for their own purposes, so they won’t pay more to have things expertly written. And there are high-income sites that are not only willing to pay higher rates to writers, but they need to pay for the highest quality content from niche expert writers to maintain their authority, repeat visitors, and deals with high-paying advertisers.
To be paid what you’re worth, you have to act like you’re worth it. This means that you’ll need to market yourself effectively, and you have to assess what people need, and send out proposals. See my ezine article “Get Famous”.
A final point: when you’ve decided on your rates - STICK TO THEM. Yes, you’re going to get “clients” who tell you they can’t pay your rates, and this is sad. For them. It has nothing to do with you - YOU decide what you can afford to work for, and what you can’t.
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