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Freelance Editing: Find Unadvertised Jobs

Do you have editing skills? If so, consider a freelance editing career: editors are in high demand, and if you promote yourself effectively you will get hired both by writers and by publishing companies.

As publishing companies cut back on staff, I've noticed that more freelance editing jobs are being advertised on the outsourcing sites.

This can be an opportunity for you. If companies are advertising on the outsourcing sites, it means that they're desperate. Usually they'd hire people they know, so all you have to do to get unadvertised editing jobs is to become someone that they know.

Try this process.

1. What Specialties Do You Have?

Firstly consider your specialties. Publishing houses need specialists when they hire editors. If you've been writing articles for parenting magazines for example, you can consider yourself a specialist in parenting topics. Therefore, approach publishing houses which publish parenting books. Parenting  is an extremely wide field, with many opportunities.

2. Make Contacts Via Social Networking

A freelance editor friend told me that she got her last three editing jobs via  Twitter.

The social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook have become hugely popular in the past few months. They're being used as serious tools by companies.

Big tip: before you start using these sites, do ensure that you have a Web  site of your own which describes the work that you do. If possible add testimonials; testimonials are vital because they offer social proof of your skills.

3. Approach Writers Directly

Every professional writer knows that one of the benefits of working with large publishing houses is that you get to work with great editors. An experienced editor can turn a rough-diamond manuscript into a sparking gem.

Many writers hire freelance editors to help them to get their books ready for publication, because nowadays, a book has to be as near ready for publication as possible even before it's sent to an agent or a publisher.

You can make contact with writers easily: approach them through their Web sites. Ensure that any writers you contact have been published by a traditional publisher; professional writers understand the value of good editors.

3. Get Testimonials -- They're Vital

We've already said that you need testimonials, but it bears repeating, because if you don't have testimonials, you'll find it very hard to get work.

Here's how to get testimonials: complete some jobs on the outsourcing sites, solely with the aim of getting testimonials for your work. It's well worth the effort.

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Full-time blogging: how to become a career blogger

An article in the Wall Street Journal reports that half a million people nominate blogging as their primary source of income.

Next week's Fab Freelance Writing Ezine takes up the theme of blogging; whether you're blogging or not, you should find it useful.

From the Editorial:

Why blog? I've been blogging since around 2001. But WHY BLOG?

When you blog, you will find, as I have, and as thousands of other writers have, that blogging will do more for your writing career than anything else.

Blogging is an adventure. I've met people via blogging I could meet in no other way. I've also been offered writing commissions I could get in no other way.

Here are just two reasons to blog:

* You WILL make money

* You will improve your writing skills

Here's the primary reason you MUST blog: you'll get known.

As a freelance writer, you must establish your name. The more your name is known, the more credibility you will get. It's vital that when a prospective buyer of your writing enters your name into Google's search query box that there are thousands of mentions of your name in the results pages.

Once your name is in Google, with many examples of your writing style, you can stop hunting for writing jobs, you'll get job offers automatically.

I get dozens of job offers a day; so do other established writers. This is the benefit of becoming a name. You can choose which jobs to accept, cherry picking the ones you want.

Read Dawn's story in the ezine, and learn more about the fascinating new writing career of blogging; the issue is out on Tuesday.

Imagine... $1,000 A Week For Just Ten Hours

You can get paid to blog. The current rate for experienced bloggers is around $1,000 to $1500 a week for from two to five posts a day - VERY nice writing income.

Find out how to blog with the blogging best-seller "Blogging For Dollars: How to become a career blogger -- in your PJs, if you want". It's my complete new ebook package, with free coaching/ consultations as well.

Freelance writing: 3 tips to help you to spread your wings

Are you making as much money as you should be making with your freelance writing skills?

You can make more money than you believe possible, even in the current economic climate.

However, you need to be aware that writing for others is generally NOT the way to go if you want a six figure income and more. You need to realize that as a writer, you can use your writing skills on your own behalf.

Here are three tips which will help you.

1. Discover affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the money-making tricks we teach you in Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON).

Once you get into the swing of affiliate marketing, promoting affiliate products on your sites and blogs, your income will soar... passively. You can make money from articles you wrote months (and years) ago, while you sit on a beach, or deal with family issues.

Affiliate marketing is EASY, but you need to understand exactly how it works, and how to get the most from the promotional material you write. Once you know how it works, you could lose everything you possess, be dumped in a foreign country, and as long as you had access to an Internet connection, you could still make money.

2. Create your own ebooks to sell

Information sells online. If you're not writing and selling your own ebooks, you're missing out on pots of gold.

3. WRITE!

I get tired of saying this, because I say it many times a day to many writers: WRITE!

When writers approach me with "problems", somewhere along the line I'll ask them what they wrote today. The answer is enlightening, for them. Why? Because they haven't written a word today, nor yesterday, nor the day before.

Much as I love writers, sometimes I want to give them a good shake and remind them that writers write. The clue is in the word: "writer."

When you're a writer, you write: in the morning, in the afternoon, after the kids have gone to bed... You don't browse the Web, you don't watch TV, you don't moan -- when you do all these things rather than write, you're wasting good writing time.

Writing is a habit. Once you've developed your writing habit, you're a WRITER. Write every day. Write when you have an hour, and write when you have one minute. Never stop writing. As Samuel Johnson said: "A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it." (Women too... :-))

Spread your wings as a writer. You're privileged to have writing talent: never take it for granted, and don't waste the immense opportunities you have.

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Your writing journal: your most important writing tool

Do you keep a writing journal?

A journal can be your most important writing tool, because keeping a journal can be therapeutic.

I've covered writing journals and using them extensively on this blog, here are several entries other writers tell me helped them:

* Writing Journal Exercise: Tell a story, solve a challenge Got a challenge in your life? Your writing journal can help you to resolve it.

* Writing yourself sane - kill your inner critic When you start out as a writer, you can be plagued by your inner critic. Here's a tip -- over time, as you become a professional, with commitments, your critic will be silenced, simply because you don't have time to listen. :-)

* Weekly Writers' Journal Prompts: Get emotional Become more in tune with your emotions.

* What am I grateful for, what did I learn in 2007? You can use this journal exercise in any year, of course. :-)

* Weekly Writers' Journal Prompts: Warm up by writing letters in your journal When you're stuck, or can't get started writing, try writing a letter.

* Get creative: log your life Create a life log -- this is a fascinating idea, try it.

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Ezine theme: creating a copywriting career

In next week's Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, our theme is creating a copywriting career.

Copywriting is writing to sell, and many excellent writers are scared of this.

Here's an excerpt from the Editorial.

If you're scared to sell…

Many writers tell me they can't write copy, because they're scared to sell. This makes me smile, because whatever you're writing, you're selling anyway. :-)

For example, if you're writing magazine or Web articles, you're selling when you send a query to a magazine or Web site, or when you promote yourself online.

When you're writing, there's no way to get out of selling, so since you need copywriting skills, it's best to get over the fear, and learn how to write copy.

That's not to say that getting over the fear is easy. You may find as I did that I could write copy for others, while finding it amazingly hard to write it for my own services and products.

If you get nervous promoting yourself too, realize that you will get over it – because you must.

Here's a tip if you're nervous of selling : the more you do it, the easier it gets, because you realize that copywriting always presents a challenge, and the challenge is exciting.

Eventually, as you keep getting new copywriting projects and new clients the excitement will outweigh the fear, and you'll wonder what you were scared of. At that point, you'll forget your self-consciousness, and will be totally focused on getting results for your clients.

If the challenge of copywriting (and the money paid to top copywriters) intrigue you, you'll enjoy the issue. It's packed with writing tips, and is out on Tuesday.

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Web Writing: 3 Days to Article Success

Want to make money writing for the web? Web content in the form of articles sells well. Let's look at an easy process which will help you to create and sell more articles.

This is a three day process. Once you've learned the process, you will be very confident in writing articles. The process saves you a great deal of time and procrastination.

You can use this process when you're writing articles to sell to others, and when you're writing articles which others have commissioned you to write as well.

Day 1: Research Keywords, and Create Article Titles

On Day 1, start by researching keywords for your topic.

Each article you write should have one primary keyword and one secondary keyword. Don't go overboard. Cramming your articles with keywords can lead to penalties. The search engines have become a lot smarter, and your articles will be penalized if you use your keywords too often in an article, so forget keyword density tools, they do more damage than good.

Once you've chosen your keywords, create your article titles.

Day 2: Write First Drafts of your Articles

On Day 2, write quick drafts of all the articles. If you have ten titles, write ten articles. (Or as many as you can complete in one session.)

Once you become an expert article writer, you'll find that it's much easier for you to write articles in batches of 5 to 10. This gets the first drafts of the articles out of the way, so that you just need to revise and edit them and then send them on their way.

Day 3: Sell your Articles (You Must Market)

With your articles written, it's time to sell them. (Of course this applies if you're writing articles for yourself to sell, rather than writing articles on commission.)

Write a quick sales page, and put it up on your website. Include one of the articles as a sample, and post the titles of the other articles.

Remember that you will need to market your articles, you just can't put them online and hope that people will discover them. You need to send traffic to that particular web sales page using any method with which you're comfortable.

Easy inexpensive marketing methods include forum marketing, article marketing, and advertising on the online classifieds sites. For fast results, consider paid advertising, such as Pay Per Click advertising.

Build your writing career, step by step

Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) web writing training gives you highly marketable skills which will build your writing career for a lifetime.

You discover how to:

* Make great money writing simple Web articles

* Develop sites and blogs (using easy, free tools) which you can sell for 12 times their monthly earnings. (For example, if you create a small site which makes you $500 a month, you can sell it for $6,000 and more)

* Create ebooks which bring you in a passive income for years to come

* Develop a successful writing services practice -- charge $250 an hour for your writing services

* and much, much more.

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Writing for Money: Generate Cash With Niche Blogs

Want to generate real cash with your writing? Perhaps you've already discovered the lucrative field of creating niche blogs. As you may know, in niche blogging, choosing a great niche leads to success or failure.

So how do you choose a great niche?

1. Is the Niche Popular -- Are People Spending Money in It?

Firstly let's look at what a niche is.

"Niches" are topics. Almost anything can be a niche, but in the way we're using the term a "niche" is a topic for which there are online advertisers.

There are niches and sub-niches. For example, dog training is a niche. A sub-niche of dog training would be dog training classes. Other sub-niches include: dog training equipment, dog training collars, and dog training online.

Although niche research can tell you a great deal, your own experience,  intuition and knowledge of a particular topic will tell you a great deal more. Therefore, when researching niches, try not to become too dependent on online search tools, remember that they're all historical, and can only tell you what people searched for in the past, not what they will search for in the future.

You'll know when you find a great niche: it has hundreds of thousands of searches, and people are spending money on the niche.

2. Do You Care About the Niche? (Boredom Sets in Quickly if You Don't)

There are some niches online which are hugely popular. People spend a great deal of money on them. You'd think that these niches would make a great topic for a blog.

But don't forget that your interest counts for a great deal. As you blog, you'll spend a lot of time thinking about this particular topic and writing about it. If you hate the topic, you'll procrastinate, and your niche blog will go nowhere.

3. How Much Do You Know About the Niche? (Research It First)

In addition to being interested in the niche, ask itself how much you know about this particular niche. For example dog training might be a good niche for you because you've owned a dog, and love dogs. If you've never owned a dog and you hate dogs it's unlikely that you'd know enough about the niche to be able to write about it with any kind of enthusiasm and authority.

4. Is the Niche Likely to Stay Popular?

Fads come and go. Today's hot topic may not be hot tomorrow. Once you get into the swing of creating niche blogs, you can certainly capitalize on current hot trends and fads. If you suspect that something is going to be hot for at least a month or two, throw up a quick blog and get the keyword traffic while you can.

However if you're new at creating niche blogs, don't try this. You need experience in blogging, and in getting traffic to your site. You'll tend to be attached to your first blog, so choosing a niche which will fade quickly is a big mistake. For one thing, you can't sell the niche blog once the topic is no longer fashionable.

You can generate a great deal of cash with niche blogs, if you enjoy writing. So get started niche blogging -- it may grow into an entire career.

Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income - much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth's blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars - blogging is fun, and profitable.

Happy Easter, Dear Writer

Wishing you fun and chocolate this Easter... :-)

Writing Success by Showing Up

In next week's issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, our theme is "writing success by showing up."

Here's an excerpt from the Editorial:

Truer words than Woody Allen's great quote for writing and for living, "Eighty percent of success is showing up", were never spoken.

That thought has worked for me for 30 years, long before I heard the quote. It sums up everything I feel about writing, and everything I've discovered to be true about writing as well.

If you want to be a successful writer (and it doesn't matter what SUCCESS means to you), just SHOW UP.

But what does "showing up" mean? It means that you're writing, every day. You may not be in love with your writing, you may feel that it's junk, but you're writing anyway. You're showing up for your writing, just because you're a writer, and writing is what writers do.

Writing is a process: use the process to help you to show up

If you're not showing up for your writing every day, you probably haven't discovered that writing is a process.

Here's the process for writing (anything at all), in a nutshell...

Discover the writing process which helps you to show up in next week's issue.

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Writing the Hard Way, Versus Writing the Easy Way

As you may have noticed when I talk about writing, I'm all for writing the EASY way.

After all, writing is easy: if you can talk, you can write.

Unfortunately, many writers (especially new writers) want to make writing HARD. I sympathize. I used to be that way, many years ago. In those long ago days, after three hours of writing my eyeballs rolled around in my head, I had an incipient migraine, and it wasn't worth your life to ask me "how's your writing going?"

So let's look at how to make writing hard for yourself.

How to Make Writing Hard

* Obsess about writing, figuring that you have to write whatever you're writing the "right" way. This leads to unbelievable silliness, like squabbles about which fonts to use when printing out your novel's proposal package. (I kid you not -- this happens. Check any writer's forum.)

* Write three paragraphs of your latest opus, and decide they're the WRONG words. They don't grip; they're completely insipid... On the strength of these three paragraphs, you decide you CAN'T WRITE. (You're not wrong. Because after those three paragraphs, you stop writing.)

* Assign all-knowing, all-seeing, all-understanding god-like status to editors and other prospective buyers of your writing. When an editor ignores you (very likely) or sends you a message saying "not for us", you immediately assume that this means that you will never be able to sell your writing. Further, you also assume that you're not a writer, everyone hates you, and you might as well forget about writing as a career. (Um... It seems pointless to say this, but editors are just people, trying to hang onto their jobs. Some editors are wonderful; some are not.)

There are endless ways to make writing hard for yourself, so before we all burst into tears or take up serious drinking as a hobby, let's see the flip side: how to make writing easy for yourself.

How to Make Writing Easy

* Commit to writing as a practice. Generate text, every day. Schedule this text generation, just as you schedule everything else. Then when it's time to write, just write, realizing that if it turns out in a few days or weeks that today's output needs deleting, just delete it, without drama.

* Forget about "good" or "bad." Focus on results.

* Learn how to manage your mind, so that you're cheerfully creative and so that writing is FUN for you. (Yes, you can do this, I promise, just use self hypnosis and affirmations.)

I know that there are many more writers who make writing hard for themselves that those happy souls who know writing is both FUN and EASY.

Therefore I've started working on a series of mind-management tools for writers. There's no need to make writing hard for yourself, and yes, you're the person who's making it hard for yourself. Writing should be fun, and easy, and when you have the right tools, it is.

The first of these new mind management tools is my free report: "The Self Hypnosis Money Tree: Relax And Write Your Way To Riches" -- get it now, and start making writing easy for yourself.

Writing Opportunities: How to Find Them Online

Can you make money writing online? Yes, you most definitely can. But here's the catch: unless you're already known as a writer, you'll write your fingers to the bone for peanuts.

I feel for new writers who are so dispirited by the online environment that they believe they need to spend their lives writing $5 articles. Not so. You're just looking for writing opportunities in the wrong places.

Keep in mind: you're NEW. No one knows you, and they certainly don't trust you. Why should they? But you can get over this natural reluctance people have to hire a "writer" without credentials -- and more importantly, you MUST.

Here's how.

1. Home Town Hero: Search for LOCAL Businesses Online

Here's where you'll find trust: locally. Get online and make a list of 100 local (town, city and state) businesses. Don't worry too much about the businesses themselves. You just want that list.

2. Pack It up: Create a Media Package

Next you need to create a media package, which tells people who you are.

Write a bio of yourself and your writing skills. Keep it under 200 words. Choose two articles you've written (or write new ones) to display your talents. Make these articles good work, but don't agonize over them.

Format your bio and articles and save them as one PDF file. Be sure to add your contact details, including your phone number. (Do a Google search for free PDF creators; there are many of them.)

Once you've written your press releases (item #4), you'll add these to your media package.

3. Tap, Tap, Tap: Wear out Your Fingertips by Calling 100 Local Companies

All done? Great. Now start calling your 100 companies. Just call them one after another. Chat. Be friendly. Tell the company marketing managers you're looking for freelance writing work.

Ask them for an email address to which you can send your media package.

Big, big tip: please follow up after sending your package.

Once you've called your 100 companies you should have enough writing jobs to keep you going for months.

4. Write Two Press Releases and Post Them Online

Finally, write two press releases and post them online. Add them to your PDF media package too.

So there you go: you're well on the way to a great freelance writing career. There are more writing opportunities than a million writers could handle, so find them!

Subscribe to Angela Booth's fabulous free weekly ezine for freelance writers: get a free report just for subscribing. Even if you're a new writer, you can freelance your way to a fantastic writing career.

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Choose a Business Model for Your Writing

In next week's Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, we discuss business models for writing.

Here's an excerpt from the Editorial:

The right business model FOR YOU can mean the difference between making three times what you can make in any day job within 12 months of starting full time freelancing, and being a hobbyist writer.

What’s a "business model"? As the name suggests, a business model is simply how you choose to make money as a writer.

Viable business models include:

* Writing and selling articles for Web and for print

* Writing and selling ebooks

* Copywriting for businesses

* Blogging as a pro blogger

* Using your writing skills to sell affiliate products

* Selling a mix of writing services (writing articles, blogging, writing ebooks for pay etc.) There's also my personal favorite:

* A "mixed" business model where you mix and match, combining several business models into a high-powered, high income strategy which works for you. (This is the model we teach to SYWON subscribers.)

Your business model should be motivating: it should get you out of bed in the morning. If you can fall in love with your business model, you've got it made. You'll make money, and your "work" will be all play. :-)

Discover how to choose the right business model for YOU.

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Write your way to a million-dollar income

Write And Sell Your Writing: The Power-Write Report -- 2009

The Web has made it possible for ANY writer, no matter how new or inexperienced, to turn writing into a fabulous career. If you're stuck in a soul-destroying, or just boring job, writing is your way out.

Fab Freelance Ezine helps you to understand the fast-changing world of the freelance writer, and sets you well on the way to making the income that you want to make, and that many writers are already making.

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How to Become a Professional Web Writer: 3 Tips

Want to kick start your web writing career? Web writers can make amazing incomes. However some writers get caught in low-paying ghettos and never make as much money as they could be making. Let's look at three tips to help you to become a professional web writer.

1. What Do You Want to Write?

The web is huge, and getting bigger every day. As a web writer, you can write anything and everything from product descriptions to entire websites.

It's vital that you think creatively as you browse the web. "Web writers" often confine themselves to writing web articles. This is silly. Yes, you can make a dollar a word when you're writing for a corporate client, but you can also find yourself writing for five cents a word.

2. Who's Buying and What Are They Buying: Use the Outsourcing Sites

The outsourcing sites are happy hunting grounds for web writers. If you're a beginner, start your Web writing career by getting at least ten jobs on the outsourcing sites and completing those jobs. At the end of that time, you may not have much money (you're unlikely to make much money at the outsourcing sites if you don't have testimonials) but you will have experience.

You'll have experience in working with buyers, completing projects on  deadline, and collecting money from clients. Please don't skip over this, and consider that these basics don't apply to you.

Basic skills (getting jobs, completing jobs, getting paid) are vital if you want to have a long-lasting career. You can't expect to leapfrog from no experience to making three dollars a word for your writing in a single bound.

Here's another benefit of the outsourcing sites. You'll find out what people are buying. Remember however that this is what people are buying on the outsourcing sites, not what people are buying on the Web as a whole. Most Web writing jobs go to those people who are known as writers, not to  unknown beginners.

3. Write, and Market: Every Day

Talk to a professional writer about marketing, and you'll discover how essential they consider marketing to be. Marketing is essential for ALL professional writers. It's essential for writers at every level. There's no way you can skip marketing, so don't try. Become familiar with marketing methods, make marketing fun for yourself, and before you know it, you'll be making great money from your web writing.

Subscribe to Angela Booth's fabulous free weekly ezine for freelance writers: get a free report just for subscribing. Even if you're a new writer, you can freelance your way to a fantastic writing career.

Join the thousands of freelance writers who are making great money freelance writing, using Fab Freelance Writing Ezine as their guide.

Freelance Writing for Beginners: 3 Tips

Kick off your writing career: go from zero to $250 per hour

Are you a beginning freelance writer? There are huge opportunities for writers at the moment. If you're not making a great income with your writing within six months there's something wrong with your strategy.

Here are three tips which will help you to kick start your career.

Firstly, you need to develop a professional writer's mindset. A professional is solely concerned with his buyers. Look at the services you offer from their point of view, rather than your own.

Here are three questions your buyers are asking themselves. Answer these questions, and you'll build a fantastic freelance writing career.

1. Who Are You? Create a Winning Profile and Bio

Getting freelance writing jobs is easy when you promote your services.

Start by telling people who you are. You're not working at a job, so you don't need a resume or CV. You do need a profile and bio. Your profile and bio lets buyers of your writing estimate whether you're the right fit for the writing jobs they have in mind.

The first time you write a profile, it's intimidating. Most writers are by nature shy, and hate talking about themselves. So, pretend you're talking about somebody else; just get that profile and bio written.

2. Tell Me Why I Should Trust You: Create a Friendly, Professional Web Site

You writer's website isn't optional. It's essential. I've never been able to understand why some writers are lazy about creating a website, but are quite prepared to spend hours every week searching for low-paying writing jobs.

As with your profile and bio, your website establishes you. It tells buyers why they should trust you. It's professional; you'll attract buyers of writing who are looking for professional writers, rather than cheap "content producers".

3. How Much Do You Cost? Get Comfortable Setting Your Rates

Top writers charge more because they provide more value, so they're in demand. The ability to add value to a project comes from experience. You can't buy experience, you can only earn it.

When you're a beginner, don't worry too much about your rates. You don't have any bargaining power, so take any writing jobs you can get. This is all part of paying your dues as a writer -- remember, you earn experience, it doesn't magically descend on you.   

As you become more experienced, you will become more comfortable at both setting, and raising, your rates.

Write your way to a million-dollar income

Write And Sell Your Writing: The Power-Write Report -- 2009

The Web has made it possible for ANY writer, no matter how new or inexperienced, to turn writing into a fabulous career. If you're stuck in a soul-destroying, or just boring job, writing is your way out.

Fab Freelance Ezine helps you to understand the fast-changing world of the freelance writer, and sets you well on the way to making the income that you want to make, and that many writers are already making.

Subscribe today, and receive "Write And Sell Your Writing: The Power-Write Report -- 2009" just for subscribing.