This is the last post for job listings ever. I know that some of you will be sad, but most of you will rejoice. Personally, I like doing these, but I won’t miss them too terribly. On this site, we’re all about helping you grow. How can you do that if you keep looking at nothing but lists of gigs you can pull yourself? I like doing humor stuff for the site a lot more, and I hope you’ll enjoy my humor updates. Now, before we get all weepy, let’s get to the final round of jobs.
The Freelance Writing Jobs
- Ghostwriter – are you a rapper? I sure as heck am not. But if you are, and you can write good punchline verses, there’s a rapper who would love to pay you to be his ghostwriter. This freelance writing job pays $250.
- Copywriter needed – do you write compelling copy? If so, this job pays $.10 per word, and they want someone who’s out of the box, daring, and original. You know–the usual when it comes to copywriting. This freelance writing job pays $.10 per word.
- Travel writer – if you’re a travel writer but you can’t seem to find gigs that pay well, look no further. Cracking the barrier at $.50 per word, this job will very handsomely reward you for travel articles. This freelance writing job pays $.50 per word.
Freelance Job Tip of the Week
I may have said this before, but I’ll say it again: when you own your own business, there is no such thing as no opportunity. Anyone you meet is a potential client, business contact, or vital asset. Any business you patronize is potentially hiring someone freelance. You will do very well without these aggregated job lists so long as you remember that there’s a job around every corner. But there won’t be a sign listing it. You will have to ask for it, charm it out, and market yourself aggressively. So long as you can do that, you will be great. And I know that you will be great.
Worst Freelance Writing Job of the Week
In order to bring on our next travel blogger, we’re going to do something a bit different. We’d really like to connect with the travel blogging community and get to know all of you out there who have travel blogs. We pay our writers between $75.00-$100.00 per post and our end goal is to build a top notch travel blog. Hopefully that will give all of you out there an incentive to participate in our hiring campaign.
Note: If you are an SEO/Keyword article marketer, please note that we are specifically looking for bloggers who can write engaging, compelling content that people love. We want you to showcase your personality in your entry.
The Benefits to You
- If you are selected as our next writer, you’ll be among good company with at team of excellent bloggers. Check out our writers page to learn more about them.
- Exposure: Ultimately Flightster will turn into a flight booking engine which receives thousands of visits a day, and your writing will be exposed to that audience.
In order to give as many travel bloggers as possible an opportunity to participate, we’re going to run the contest for two weeks. The deadline to enter will be Friday July 30th. The following travel Tuesday will do a roundup of all the entries and we’ll narrow it down to the 10 finalists. We’ll feature the articles of the finalists and the readers will vote on who should be the next blogger on the Flightster Staff.
- Write a Blog Post About Anything Travel Related on Your Blog: The first thing that we’d like is for you to write a blog post on your own blog about anything travel related. We figure why keep you from doing something you’re already doing
- Link to Flightster In Your Post: In your blog post, find a way to incorporate any of the current articles on Flightster or even this post (http://www.flightster.com/2010/07/20/how-to-become-the-next-paid-writer-for-the-flightster-blog/) as a link. This will enable us to know that you want to be considered for being chosen as the next member of the Flightster writing staff. We’ll be doing a roundup of all the entries as part of the contest and return the link love back to you.
- Tweet Your Post with the hashtag #FLIGHTSTER and follow us on twitter to to keep track of what we’re doing. We’ll also retweet your post to all of our followers
- Subscribe to the Blog: I encourage you to subscribe to the Flightster blog since we’ll be announcing all of our updates on this campaign via the blog.
- Become a Fan on Facebook: We’ll also be running many contests and cool travel giveaways via our Facebook fan page, so check out our fan page.
- Get our Attention: If you’re even more eager to get on our radar put up videos, podcasts, pictures or anything on your blog and share them on twitter with a mention of @flightsterblog. The main thing we’ll be looking at is your blog post, but if you’ve got some really creative ideas that will definitely get our attention.
So basically you want to increase your Google Pagerank but you think to yourself, hmmm. How do I do this while appearing to have an artificially high number of readers? I know! Why don’t I run a contest to see how many suckers I can get to jump through hoops like a job application is a damned circus. Then, once I’ve gotten a ton of Facebook fans, Twitter exposure, and go from maybe a pagerank of 1 to 2, I’ll hire the idiot who jumped through the greatest number of hoops by sacrificing the largest amount of his dignity. Awesome!
By the way, their pagerank is currently 0. Don’t help them. I already did just by looking at the dang thing.
Anyway, I’m still the resident humor writer so don’t expect me to be too far gone. I hope to be making you laugh every week now, so this isn’t goodbye. It’s just so long to the job lists. FOREVER!
If you’d like to look through longer aggregated lists of freelance writing jobs to help you save time in your job search, All Freelance Writing recommends Anne Wayman’s freelance writing jobs at AboutFreelanceWriting.com.
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lol You nearly made me weepy. And then I remembered that you’re not going anywhere. You’re so melodramatic Clint. ;)
Just to give everyone the update here…
1. Clint’s bi-weekly humor series will now be published weekly on Wednesdays. That means another bi-weekly series will change dates, but none are being completely cut but the job listings.
2. Clint will very likely be helping out with the upcoming Web comic series and related projects that come from it (namely a series of animated shorts and a game featuring the characters down the road). So you’ll get plenty of Clint’s wit at AFW.
3. The job listings simply don’t fit what we want to focus on here, and I’ve never been a huge fan of aggregating other’s listings anyway. So buh-bye to that. It’s time for the site to grow beyond it. You still have access to our freelance writing marketplace (where you can post jobs or writer profiles for free at this time) and you can access our writer’s market directory — both links can always be found near the top of the site. I’d just rather time be put into improving those two things which are far better resources than simply giving you what’s already out there.
So that’s the reasoning behind the change. We simply have more interesting things to turn our attention to.
And Clint…. I bet you are soooo a closet rapper. ;)
I will not say anything about my rap career except that Vanilla Slurpee had a very brief debut and exit.
Is there a site where we can get Clint’s job finds? Darn!
Just search the same sources I guess — CL, MediaBistro, JournalismJobs, Indeed.com, etc. If he has any other gems, I’m sure he’ll share.
Hey Star! I’ll share with you a few places where you can save yourself some time. I have been doing this long enough to tell you which places rock and which suck.
If all you did was hit the NYC Writing section on Craigslist every day, you’d get 90% of the jobs I found. I branched into Chicago, Boston, Seattle, LA, and San Francisco for a few, but often there were duplicates or just not enough jobs.
I would not actually spend my time on Indeed.com–it seems that a few content mills have really cranked on that site and made it nearly impossible to navigate. For the few teensy gems you’d find (and I can’t be sure I ever actually found any) you could have cold-called three clients.
Same goes for MediaBistro and JournalismJobs. I checked them religiously and found next to nothing. Once in an extremely great while I’d find something, but if you’re looking to crank, I’d hit them only once a week instead of daily. Same goes for ProBlogger. Demand and Suite101 both post there regularly.
Yeah, I’ve found that NYC and LA are often the best there. And Seattle, while having far fewer, often had better quality job leads posted.
That sucks about Indeed. They used to be a great place where you could search several sites at once, including MediaBistro and JournalismJobs. But you’re right… when I stopped using them it was around the time Demand was spamming job boards everywhere with the same BS over and over, and Suite101 wasn’t far behind. ProBlogger’s ads also went downhill several months ago catering a bit too much to the cheapskates and exploitative mills for my tastes. Shame. They used to be another good source.
Ironically I just got an email from someone at Indeed. So I responded and let him know about that issue. Just checked it out for the first time in a while, and yep… these mills spam the same old crap ads on every site they can, and they’re being picked up by Indeed. So they’re all over the place. Ick.
Thank god. They need someone to slap them over the head and clean shit up there. I’m sick of seeing Examiner.com down the list over and over again.
I remember reporting one site that seemed to spam job listings there in the past (well over a year ago now I’m sure). I was told they’d look into it but nothing ever happened. There really is no excuse for the same job ad (just slightly different titles or wording) to be showing up repeatedly in the search results. But I guess that’s a fault of choosing to aggregate — when they spam multiple sites you pull from, you get the results. I mentioned four that seemed to be doing it in my email — Demand, Suite101, HubPages, and Examiner.
And of course there’s always the writer’s market link at the top of this site. We list all markets with their guidelines publicly available, as long as they pay — a bit different than our marketplace rules that get most of the ads deleted before they make it live. But there are more gems there if you’re looking for mags or larger sites online. And with the jobs going away, there will be more emphasis on adding more markets each month there.
Clint! You’ve done great service here and will continue to in whatever form… and thanks for the recommendation.
The sources are no secret and I use all you mentioned here every M-W-F. I work to make my list freelance only – the criteria is can you do them from home in your pjs. I also sort into low pay – anything that’s $10 or less for an article and try to flag revenue share. I’ve also got a category called “Might be worth considering” which is where I put strange stuff.
That said I still think most would do better to call in their own community – businesses, local newspapers, etc. There are so many more jobs for writers that simply aren’t listed anywhere, but can be had with some door knocking as it were.
Enough out of me at at the moment.
Yes, I do know all those sources–but Clint used to find things I didn’t and he was funny! I cam every Tues and now prob won’t. That Freelancewritinggigs thing went ape over Demand, so I never went back. Heard it was sold, tried it again, just low-rent crap. I took Indeed off my dailies–you’re right–slop shops all the way. I do some google alerts…took most off, waste of time. I do check Phoenix craigs for myself and my kid. Bad deals and sites are driving out good–just like bad money drives out good in an economy. That’s from college–proud of me? Anyhow…the rates everyplace are dopey. My attempts to get into govt contracting continue, but it’s slow going trying to find a good subcontracting opp.
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Oh, well…everything changes. Good luck with all this…