US:
We’re a small agency that specializes in working with online companies for their B2B sales efforts.
YOU:
– 5+ years in B2B copywriting
– Fluency in marketing jargon, and an aversion to using it
– Ready for fast turnarounds and multiple revisions
– Good strategic sense
– Independence and initiative
– Flexible hours
– NYC area a plus, but not crucial
– Samples & resume
Pregnancy/baby-raising-related web site looking for original content from writers. Content should be between 350-600 words. $10 per article. (Target audience is Chinese, so Chinese articles are equally acceptable.
Please contact [email protected] for topics.
by Jodee Redmond
Good morning FWJ Friends! It’s Friday and I have leads for fashion writers, content writers, electronics writers, technical writers, and bloggers for you today. Opps for proofreaders, travel editors, and translators also made the list.
How would you like to win a copy of Deb Ng’s new e-book, Beyond Blogging? Two or three of our readers can do just that. All you need to do is share plans, goals, or dreams you have for your blogging skills to enter. I’ve had a chance to read it, and it is chock full of great information, BTW. You can find out more details about the contest here.
Leads…
Telecommute
by Deb Ng
So I’ve been trying to think of a contest for our readers at NBT. I want to give away a copy of my new E-Book, “Beyond Blogging: Using Your Blogging Skills for Bigger and Better Things,” but I didn’t want to have just another comments contest. I wanted something that can tie in with the book, but also benefitted the bloggers who visit here.
I think I found something that will do.
As the title of the book indicates, “Beyond Blogging” is about taking the skills you learned as a blogger and using them to advance your career. For instance, I took the skills I learned building up this community (and others) and played them up to get my job as community manager.
I will also be leading a discussion called “Beyond Blogging: Using Your Blogging Skills for Bigger and Better Things,” at SXSWi this year in hopes of giving bloggers a few things to think about. For instance, are you ok blogging for a low paying network or would you like to set your sites higher?
So with all that in mind, we’re also going to have the discussion here as well. Talk to us about the skills you feel you cultivated as a blogger. Perhaps you have become more of a people person, or perhaps your powers of traffic analysis rock. Tell us about your skills and where you think they’ll take you. Do you wish to continue on as you are as a blogger or are you using blogging (and those newly aquired skills) to take you in another direction?
Though we’ll be doing the random drawing thing, you’ll catch my eye more if you post a thoughtful response and continue to come back to discuss. So, one word or one sentence answers won’t get you a book. Talk to us about your passion, and let it show.
The contest will end sometime Monday morning, depending on when I have my first cup of coffee. Good luck to you all. By the way, if there are more than one awesome responses and more than one awesome discussions, I may just give out more than one e-book.
I look forward to learning about your skills…and how you plan to take them to the next level.
Whether you’re new to the world of freelance writing or you’re a seasoned expert in the field, there’s three things that you generally always want: better clients, high-paying clients and repeat clients.
So how do you get them?
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By Terreece M. Clarke
What’s going on in your life? I’m expecting my third child so I’ve been thinking a lot about organization, time management, not to mention childbirth options! So guess where my pitches have been leaning?
Being a freelance writer is like having a master key to all of the world’s knowledge. You can tap experts and satisfy your curiosity while helping the public. Your curiosity is one of the most important virtues you have as a writer and your curiosity can carry you through to becoming an expert in your niche and beyond.
Remember what it’s like to write on a topic you have very little interest in besides the paycheck that accompanies it? The robotic research, the attention to detail simply because that’s what you do and the long suffering sigh when it’s finished and off to the editor.
Now think about an article that you were excited to write about. Remember how you checked, cross-checked and double-checked your work, your happy dance when you scored a fantastic interview with a great source and the “Yahooo!” you yelped when you sent the article off because you knew you had nailed it.
Curiosity is a great way to move beyond the doldrums of writing for money and getting you back to writing for the love of it AND getting paid for it. Nine times out of 10 if you have a question about something there is a publication with an audience that has a question about it as well. Your challenge is take your questions, match them to a publication and present them in killer queries with a great angle.
So folks, what piques your interest?
I was struck by a comment made yesterday where one of our readers said that they were “insulted” when a prospective client offered a rate that was lower than they were prepared to accept. While I understand that is how the offer may have come across, I’m pretty sure that the people who are trying to hire freelance writers are not deliberately trying to be offensive.
by Jodee Redmond
Good morning FWJ Friends! It’s a frosty Thursday morning, and I’ve got leads for education article writers, fashion writers, fiction writers, and greeting card writers. By the way, the “Rockstar Sex Freelancer” client is not looking for someone to write about sex with rock stars. They are looking for a freelancer who can rock a sex column. There are some blogging opps, a bunch of site-specific leads, and an internship as well.
Leads…
Telecommute
Japanese Translator WantedBlogging Gigs
Site Specific
Internships
Good Luck!
I went to bed more pissed off last night then I have in a very long time. And I rarely, if ever cuss online, (see previous pissed off statement) so now it’s official, I’m mad.
Why? The big P. Lame people plagiarizing my work. Last night I went searching for a gov source about baby food textures. During that search, I completely by accident stumbled onto an eHow article that was mine. But not mine, because I’ve never personally written a word for eHow. No, my eHow name is ChristyQ. Lame old miss Q had taken a piece I did for online magazine and turned it into her own. How very nice.
Usually I don’t get so angry. I mean people scrap stuff all the time from my blogs. I send C&Ds, I email, I take care of it. It’s part of the game when you write. This week though… I have five major deadline, two interviews, ten architects to round up for a piece, and my regular blogging work. Busy week. I don’t have time to be thrown. I don’t have time for total idiots.
Luckily in this case, the online magazine I write for took care of it in under one hour. That was bliss, much love to them, and I should have felt better, but honestly, I’ve been obsessing all day. Obsessing. Yes, people stealing content is part of the writing game, but why should it be? I guess I was thinking last night that no matter what we do, no matter how we try to protect our writing, our blogs, our articles; someone is willing to cut in and claim it.
To add to that, while stolen content makes it easy to shut down a blog, there’s nothing to stop that same thief from starting up a new blog with stolen content. Plus, while places like eHow seem to take plagiarism seriously (my article was deleted from their site), they allow the writer to stay on and keep their profile up, so they obviously don’t take it as seriously as me, who feels a better plan would be to ban the alleged writer (using that term loosely) for life.
The stages of how to stop obsessing: [Read more…]
Hiring for two separate clients, one a Lemon Car Lawyer and the other a Used Office Furniture business.
For each client, we are looking for someone who can write 1-3 blog posts a week, 250-500 words each. SEO experience is a plus, but not required.
