Assuming that you have a degree (B.A.) or a Master in any field related to writing, would you accept a freelance writing job that offers $2.2.5 per article?
Are you so desperate to get a job that $2.25 is the best you can get?
With a B.A. or Master, you are supposed to be writing at the rate of $50 per article of perhaps 500 words.
While you might be desperate at finding a job at the moment, this is not exactly the dream job for freelance writers.
Enough said.
Think before accepting any freelance writing job, is it worth it?
An ad on Craigslist:
Prefer a B.A. or Masters in English, Journalism, Creative Writing, or Marketing. We encourage university students close to graduating that are pursuing these majors to apply.
350 words per article.
All articles must pass Copyscape.
Committed to delivering good quality articles that have passed spell check, proper grammar usage, good paragraph structure, logical paragraph flow.
Have some knowledge of Search Engine Optimization and the concept of keyword density.
Have very basic HTML knowledge otherwise be willing to learn very basic items.
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April 12, 2010 at 5:11 pm | Permalink |
While these kinds of jobs are good for the desparate, they can kill our time for what they are worth.
I rely on only two types of writing for 350 word articles. One is affiliate posts and another is content publishing for Triond/Bukisa.
There is a trick that needs to be followed with these to make them worth trying. Treat them in groups when writing as well as promoting and later analyzing their earning results. Due to random nature only few articles out of a set do earn good money consistently. That depends on your writing, SEO, marketing skills. This I call as success ratio. Mine is min. 1:3 to 2:3 depending on the topic. This way articles are earning more than $3 in a year.
I can't yet try freelance writing for higher worth jobs as you may do. It is great if you do $50 per article work. Can you please work out a post suggesting steps to write such high worth articles? I find it tiring to write highly researched articles and never earn enough from them. May be I am not good at it.
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April 13, 2010 at 1:21 am | Permalink |
Thanks for the suggestion. I don’t really earn $50 an article but there are people out there who earn such amount (perhaps even more than that).
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