Get Started Pro Blogging - It's A Freelance Writers' Gold Mine
For around ten hours of work the top freelance bloggers earn upwards of $1000 a week. In word count terms, it equates to ten blog posts a week at 100 to 200 words, that is, a thousand words.
This compares favorably with respectable print freelance rates of a dollar a word. Some pro bloggers in specialist fields like health, business and technology earn $3 a word.
Now, heaven forbid that you think this is a myth - I've been paid these rates, and regularly turn down work, because I've got more blogging work than I can handle.
Pro blogging contracts are usually for three to six months. Since this is steady work, it's very appealing to many freelance writers. Your pro blogging client becomes your "anchor client", the client who pays your bills. Other freelance work you do is gravy.
You Set Your Own Pro Blogger Rates: Charge What You Want
The big benefit of pro blogging for both new and established freelance writers is that pro blogging is a new market. Only a tiny fraction of working freelance writers are aware of pro blogging. So if you start now, you have no competition, and it's easy to find businesses which are eager to have you start blogging for them. Established pro bloggers regularly turn down work - you can't blog for everyone. Currently in 2007 and for at least another five years, pro blogging is a provider's market: you get to be a price maker, instead of a price taker, as most freelance writers are.
If You Can Use A Word Processor, You Can become A Pro Blogger
Writing a blog "post" as a blog item is called, is easy and fast. It usually takes around fifteen minutes to half an hour to write a post, including research time.
But what if you're not technically inclined? Even if you're a novice computer user, blogging has become super-easy. If you can use a word processor and send an email message, you can blog. Setting up a free blog at the world's largest blogging application, Blogger (owned by Google), takes around five minutes, even if you're totally new to the process.
Got A Specialty? Pro Blog In Your Freelance Writing Specialty And Get Very Well Paid
Many pro bloggers/ freelance writers find that pro blogging in their speciality, whether it's health, technology, or business, gets them faster work at a much higher rate. Specialists are always paid more than generalists, and if you're a specialist writer, the world is your pro blogging oyster.
Pro blogging is fun, it's easy, it's profitable - and it's the key to more highly paid work. When you blog, you get known as a writer, and getting known is vital for freelance writers in 2007 and beyond.
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