Comments on: 10 Steps to a Freelance Writing Career http://www.poewar.com/finding-your-market/ Writing Career Center Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:51:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul http://www.poewar.com/finding-your-market/comment-page-1/#comment-225187 Paul Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:44:32 +0000 http://www.poewar.com/archives/2005/01/15/finding-your-market/#comment-225187 Very good stuff. I started out as a freelance writer with Associated Content. I was a military guy so I needed the extra cash! I now write for several sites- Associated Content, Digital Journal, Examiner, Demand Studios to name a few. They all have their advantages. All of your tips apply to the freelance writing world. I don't do it full time, but I do believe it is highly possible to make it a career- IF they stay focused on the tasks at hand per each site's design. For instance, Associated Content doesn't pay a lot up front for articles like they used to. Yet if you write one article a day and spend 30 minutes promoting it in different corners of the web, you can rake in serious dough after 6 months just from residuals. Pam Gaulin makes over $1,000 a month in residuals alone from stuff she wrote YEARS ago. I don't promote much and haven't written much since my early days but I still get $50 a month off of only 300 pieces. Writing for Demand Studios is a different story. If you get hired, you can make $15 per article. But there are many rules and regs for how you write them. But to make the most money, you don't need to promote articles; you just have to crank out as many as you can without getting rewrites requests. And if you DO get rewrite requests, either do what the editors want or let the piece rot and move on. Most corrections take 5 minutes. You get paid much faster and make more money, but no residuals. With Examiner, you can write articles based on your area of expertise. You get no up front money. But the residuals are $1 per 100 clicks. Write on a timely subject and you can make a lot of money FAST, watching your earnings almost up to the minute. I made $50 a month on 25 articles for 3 months straight. Those were articles I whipped up in 15 minutes. To make serious money, you have to have good timing and a good area of expertise. And Examiner has lots of national exposure. This one guy is a "Big Brother" television show examiner. When the show is in season, he reviews the episodes and posts them right after airing. Even interviewed booted contestants. He easily made hundreds of dollars in a DAY. Very good stuff.
I started out as a freelance writer with Associated Content. I was a military guy so I needed the extra cash!
I now write for several sites- Associated Content, Digital Journal, Examiner, Demand Studios to name a few. They all have their advantages. All of your tips apply to the freelance writing world. I don’t do it full time, but I do believe it is highly possible to make it a career- IF they stay focused on the tasks at hand per each site’s design.
For instance, Associated Content doesn’t pay a lot up front for articles like they used to. Yet if you write one article a day and spend 30 minutes promoting it in different corners of the web, you can rake in serious dough after 6 months just from residuals. Pam Gaulin makes over $1,000 a month in residuals alone from stuff she wrote YEARS ago. I don’t promote much and haven’t written much since my early days but I still get $50 a month off of only 300 pieces.

Writing for Demand Studios is a different story. If you get hired, you can make $15 per article. But there are many rules and regs for how you write them. But to make the most money, you don’t need to promote articles; you just have to crank out as many as you can without getting rewrites requests. And if you DO get rewrite requests, either do what the editors want or let the piece rot and move on. Most corrections take 5 minutes. You get paid much faster and make more money, but no residuals.

With Examiner, you can write articles based on your area of expertise. You get no up front money. But the residuals are $1 per 100 clicks. Write on a timely subject and you can make a lot of money FAST, watching your earnings almost up to the minute. I made $50 a month on 25 articles for 3 months straight. Those were articles I whipped up in 15 minutes. To make serious money, you have to have good timing and a good area of expertise. And Examiner has lots of national exposure. This one guy is a “Big Brother” television show examiner. When the show is in season, he reviews the episodes and posts them right after airing. Even interviewed booted contestants. He easily made hundreds of dollars in a DAY.

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