Category Archives: Making Money

Moving Beyond Content Mills: Steve Sloane

By on October 20th, 2011

This article is part of a follow-up series for Demand Media Studios writers interested in moving past the content mill to find higher paying freelance writing jobs. This series features freelance advice for five writers tailored to their individual needs …

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Building New Income Streams When Client Work is Slow

By on October 16th, 2011

This article is a part of a five post series for Demand Media Studios writers and others interested in leaving content mills and other low paying freelance writing jobs behind.  We’ve already looked at why freelance job boards aren’t the best places …

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How to Start an Idea Generation Business

By on August 5th, 2011

The following is a guest post from Corey Freeman, as a follow-up to her recent post, “6 Alternative Jobs for Freelance Writers.” In my previous post here on AFW, I covered 6 alternative jobs that might interest freelance writers. There …

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Think Twice About Writing for Revenue Share

By on June 24th, 2011

This post is based on a comment I recently left on Lori Widmer’s “If it Didn’t Work with Huffington….” Writing for ad revenue is usually a bad idea for writers. Some of the big networks have been doing it for …

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Freelancers: Nonprofit Does NOT Mean Non-Paying

By on June 1st, 2011

A few days ago a colleague shared a story about a recent experience with a nonprofit organization. Here’s the gist of what happened: The client hired the freelance writer for a previous project at the writer’s professional rates. The client …

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