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Using Social Media to Find Writing Gigs

By on January 22nd, 2013

By: Adrienne Erin Freelance writers love the Internet. Whenever a company creates an ecommerce site, a newsletter, a blog or an informational website, they need people to write content. Writing opportunities abound online for writers, but only if you look in the right places. Scams and low-paying jobs are everywhere online. How often have you seen an ad demanding exceptional writing skills, no need for proofing or editing, and 100 percent unique content, for which the employer will oh-so-graciously pay $0.05 a page? Such ads are all over Craigslist and job-bidding boards, hoping new writers will take the gig to …

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A Freelance Writer’s Guide to Quoting for Social Networking

By on May 28th, 2010

One of the very first gigs I got over a year ago when I started full time freelancing was to work on the Twitter account of a life insurance company. The company actually found me through my own Twitter ramblings and still decided to hire me to do the same for them. Since that time I’ve had many different social networking clients and I’ve answered the questions of many different freelancers on how to quote for an SN gig, outline expectations and keep clients happy. And now I’m going to share all those secrets with you. It is important to …

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5 Signs You’ve Landed a Great Freelance Writing Job

By on January 21st, 2010

If you decided to search for freelance writing jobs right now, you would probably find thousands of them advertised. Many of those writing jobs are crap (and that’s putting it nicely) to the bulk of writers here. After all, do you want to get paid $.001 per word (yes that’s 1/10 of one cent per word)? Do you want to work for $.05 per word? Or would you rather get paid $.50 per word or more to blog, or a dollar per word or more for features? Do you want to write original content in your area of expertise, or …

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How to Lose a $7,000 Freelance Writing Gig Without Even Trying

By on November 13th, 2009

I thought I’d kick off my new series here on All Freelance Writing with an awesome story about something that happened to me this week. I started my week by losing a $7,000 finance course writing gig. Yay me! Why am I happy? Well, because I have to be or otherwise it would mean I did something wrong. Okay, kidding. I’m happy because, from the way this transpired, I think I was saved from a gig that would not have gone well. Or not…who knows. The Dish Okay, so this all started on Elance. Huh? Elance? You can get high …

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When it Rains it Pours (Writing Gigs that is!)

By on August 27th, 2008

I’m sure most freelance writers have heard that writing jobs can come in waves – you’ll have very busy times and you’ll undoubtedly have slow times as well. There are lots of reasons for this – some types of writing (or niches) are simply more seasonal, the economy can influence buying behaviors of freelance writing work, etc. When it starts to rain writing gigs for me, it really does pour – sometimes so much so that I need to take a step back, remind myself to breathe, and jump in without succumbing to pressure. Do you ever have times like …

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