Looking for a blogger that can write to promote our online cosmetics store.  We are looking for someone that loves cosmetics and loves to blog about them.  We will send products to the person we feel best suits our needs so they can try them first hand, and be able to promote them and our store through blog postings on various beauty related blogs.

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New regional wedding/marriage magazine seeks freelance submissions on a number of topics related to planning a wedding, as well as building a strong and successful marriage. The magazine will be published 6 times a year in the greater Indianapolis area beginning October 2008, and there are tentative plans to expand into other Indiana markets over the next year.

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by Deborah Ng

Most members of the FWJ community come here to find job leads, learn tips and share ideas for landing the perfect freelance writing gig. Nothing offers more insight than feedback from people who place ads here. When clients and employers write a guest post letting us know their thoughts on the applicants it helps us to fine tune our cover letters, resumes and writing samples.

With that in mind, I asked some of my friends about their freelance writing deal makers and deal breakers. The things they see on applications that will either propel a resume to the top of the candidate list  - or promptly sink it to the bottom.  Many of these items mentioned are common sense. We talk often of following directions and showing passion. Now you can see how important they are to many of the people who hire freelance writers and bloggers.

Freelance Writing Deal Breakers

• Wendy Piersall who hires writers for her blog network, Sparkplugging:

“If they can’t pay attention to any specific application requirements or requests, I tend to doubt their ability to do anything right. Like if I ask for samples, and they don’t send any.”

• Liz Strauss who blogs the aptly named Successful Blog and hired many freelancers when she worked in publishing:

“A total lack of awareness of the person who will be reading it.”

• Darren Rowse - Who runs the popular ProBlogger Blog Tips including the ProBlogger Job Board and has been known to hire writers from time to time: (more…)

Good morning FWJ Friends! It’s the end of the week already and I’ve got leads of health writers, technical writers, and finance writers this morning. Internships and opps for proofreaders, real estate writers, and marketing writers also made the list.

I was following yesterday’s discussion about writing custom samples with great interest. I think part of the issue surrounding them is how writers think of themselves. If we decide that we are “creatives,” then we are more likely to be prepared to “audition” for a job, like actors or musicians do.

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I am starting several niche marketing businesses and need ‘one stop shop’ solutions for content. What I mean by that is the ability to order:
- a given number of keyword SEO based, high quality, original, interesting and above average articles for a given niche
- web2.0 sites created based on the niche - squidoo, hubpages etc

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Financial Writer Wanted for Weekly Newsletter

We are looking for a writer with extensive knowledge of the financial markets and mortgage/housing industry to write a weekly newsletter sent to our members. The intended audience is real estate professionals, so there needs to be a bend in the newsletters about housing written in layman’s terms. Plus, it needs to be upbeat without dry financial speak (a sense of humor will help).

The newsletter will look at the happenings of the prior financial week as well as a look forward into the following week’s financial projections. In addition, financial charts and important financial dates (related to housing/general economy) will need to be included, so this information will need to be researched.

The newsletter is sent out on Sundays so it needs to be completed by Friday afternoon/Saturday morning. You MUST be dependable and hit this deadline every week (there will be some exceptions during major holidays). Your work will NOT be edited or proofed before being published, so you MUST be attentive to detail.

We will provide samples of past newsletters if you are chosen as a candidate. Please send three samples of your writing as well as your fees to support@marketforcecrm.com. Thanks.

We’ve all had those interviews. No matter what you ask or how you ask it, your interview subject is shut up tighter than a presidential candidate making a VP pick. Sometimes people are worried about giving too much information away, others are just nervous, but either way you’ve got to get the information. So, what can you do to crack that nut?

The ever faithful “Could you elaborate on that?” sets it up and then your follow up hits it out of the park: silence. Silence is uncomfortable and in today’s world, unusual. Your pleasant, expectant pause is often a better prompt than several follow up questions. Your subject will work to fill the silence and in turn provide you with not only the answer you seek, but additional information that is ripe for follow up questions.

The key to using silence is to use it sparingly. Try all of your other techniques first: use open ended questions and encouraging body language, pull from your pool of prior conducted research, but when the interview gets tough, you get silent and just let the subject talk. Another point to remember - be careful using it on the phone. The interview subject may think the call got disconnected and by the time you get finished explaining you’re still on the line, you’ve lost the power and momentum of the silence.

Great interviewing skills are essential to a writer’s repertoire. Tuesday in our comments section for my post on research we talked about the importance of interviewing including the interviewing hierarchy: 1. in person, 2. over the phone, 3. via email. Writers use their interviewing skills beyond articles to interview clients, employees, etc. What are some of your favorite interviewing tips?

We’re looking for exceptional freelance writers to write technical tutorials with supporting images for our design blog. Experience in using the above programs or technology is required.

Outline

- Working with the editor creating the post topic (which will be approved by  us before the work is started)
- Researching the material
Writing the article (using descriptive verbiage that is both user AND search engine friendly)
Capturing/Editing/Cropping screenshots and other graphics (images should be 500 px wide)
Min 400 words and at least 5 support graphics
All work must be original

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Good morning FWJ Friends! I’ve got opps for bloggers, copywriters, and technical writers for you this morning. There are postings looking for a dance critic/writer, a grant writer, and someone familiar with writing sales presentations. A fact checking gig also made today’s list.

One posting that I decided to skip was where the employer wanted to see a custom-written, 1,000 word sample. Even though the ad stated that the samples would not be used unless the applicant was hired, it seemed a bit much to me. An employer should be able to get some idea about a writer’s “voice” from his or her samples.

What do you think? Is a 1,000-word custom sample asking too much? How many hoops would you jump through to get hired if the job seemed like a good, well-paying one?

Leads…

• Baltimore Blogger with Multimedia Ability Wanted
• Freelance Writers @ VC3 Communications - Telecommute
• Freelance Copywriter - Waltham, MA - Off Site/Some On-Site Meetings
• Govt. Technical Writer - Arlington, VA - On/Off Site
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Update: This client got a great response from FWJ readers and is no longer accepting applications. Thank you to everyone who applied.

We are looking for someone to do three to four tutorials on a PHP
topic (programming language). For each of these 3 to 4 trial articles
we will pay $50 dollars per tutorial. Email me to talk about specific
topics. This could turn into a full time job and we need someone who
understands programming, web hosting, and technology. We are needing
general articles in those areas as well as programming tutorials. This
is a remote position.

Contact Info
Ben Welch-bolen at Bweeb Inc - bwb@bweeb.com