Hiring Someone to Post Freelance Writing Jobs

By on October 12th, 2009

NOTE: This gig is no longer open for submissions. Sorry.

Since I put this out there on Twitter, I thought it only fair to mention it here for my non-tweeting readers:

I was debating whether or not to bring in another blogger to take over posting the freelance writing jobs and blogging jobs here. After a reminder from Clint Osterholz on Twitter, I decided I’ll probably go ahead and do that soon (have some big plans for AFW in the near future, so it would be a help to have that off my hands to free time for other things anyway).

One of the reasons I haven’t brought anyone on board yet is simply the fact that I have no idea what a fair price would be to have someone post links. So I’m just going to leave it open to quotes. Here’s what you’d need to do if you’re interested:

  • Post to the blog every Monday – Friday. I generally prefer putting the posts together in the evenings so they can be set to go live early in the morning, but I really wouldn’t care if you do it the same way. Ideally it would be great if they were up before noon eastern on weekdays.
  • Posts on Monday and Thursday would be specifically for blogging jobs. They would need a minimum of 10 job links (although I’m not a tyrant — I know there aren’t always ten paying blogging gigs out there on a given day that aren’t utter crap, so if it were occasionally a few less in favor of quality I think I’d live).
  • Posts on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday would be any type of freelance writing job or blogging job you can find — obviously emphasizing better gigs when details on pay and such are available (no scammy things like affiliate posts trying to get AC sign-ups, no obviously non-paying gigs, etc.). For these I’d like a minimum of 20 links.
  • I’d give you my own favorite “hot spots” for finding jobs, as well as some search tricks I use to make the process quicker and easier, but you’d be welcome to pull jobs from other sources as well. I do have certain gigs I don’t want listed here though (like jobs listed with Odesk or Examiner.com or Suite101 ads).

You could write a personal intro to each post if you want to, but it’s not required. Just a note that “Here are your freelance writing jobs and blogging jobs for …..” is fine as a lead-in. The main focus is in making sure the jobs go out to the email subscribers who want them in their inbox each morning. You would have a by-line if you wanted it. Every now and then I might ask you to do a special post with a much larger list of 100 or so jobs (and I’d certainly pay you more for that than the typical 10-20 listings). I’d have you save the posts as a draft, and I might go in and add more to them periodically if there are a lot of decent-looking gigs available that day.

You’d need to be familiar with WordPress. I’ll give you the meta info for posts and tags, so you won’t have to worry about coming up with anything unique there.

That’s all I can think of. I’ll probably take quotes for about a week before deciding. If you want to, you can leave a quote here in the comments, but it would likely be better if you just email me privately – jenn(at)allfreelancewriting(dot)com. Let me know your rate to do the link lists. If you only wanted to do them for a day or two, let me know that too. I don’t see why it couldn’t be split between two people if that’s preferable to folks.

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About Jennifer Mattern

Jenn is a professional blogger and freelance business writer. She has worked as a writer since 1999, and began blogging in 2004. She owns All Freelance Writing as well as several other sites and blogs covering indie publishing, social media, and small business. She expects to release her first book for freelance writers, The Query-Free Freelancer, in 2012 and she is the author of the Web Writer's Guide e-book series.

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