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Make More Money Freelance Writing - You Have To Plan For It by Carl Ramirez
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Make More Money Freelance Writing - You Have To Plan For It |
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Want to make more money from your writing? Create a plan, and follow it. You'll achieve more than you ever thought you could. Here's a popular complaint I hear from commenters on my writing blogs and read in my email: "People won't pay for good writing!" If you agree with this myth, I'm sorry, but you're targeting the wrong group of buyers. If you want to be paid $2 per word rather than $2 per article, you have to target the buyers who are looking for $2-per-word articles. This is only common sense. In general: $2 per word is paid by mass market publications, offline and online, rather than tiny publications. (Copywriting is different. You can easily make anywhere from $2 to $5 and more per word for copywriting, no matter how tiny your client.) So if you want to make more money, plan for it by targeting those who can afford to pay the rates you want to be paid. Very few freelance writers PLAN. You can immediately put yourself into the top one per cent of writers when you plan. Here's how to create a plan. 1. Set a Goal, With a Deadline Goal setting is fun when you look on every goal you set as an experiment. If it's an experiment, you can tinker with it until you get the results you want. Never look on goal-setting as a win/ lose proposition. Look on goal-setting as a way to move forward in your writing career by gathering information on what works, and what doesn't. Your goal might be: "To make $2 per word from my writing 12 months from today." 2. Create a Step by Step Plan to Achieve Your Goal Next, create a step by step process to achieve your goal. For example: * Find ten publications which pay $2 per word * Read the publications and make notes on what they've published in the past three months * Read their writer's guidelines if available. If you can't meet the guidelines (don't have the clips), create a plan to gather clips And so on. The steps you take to achieve your goal will change as you take them. No step is ever set in stone. You'll discover short cuts as you work. Here's what is important: writing down the steps, fully realizing that they will change. So, please write down a provisional plan. 3. Create Tasks out of Your First Step, and Schedule Them Next simply take the first step, and create some tasks. For "Find ten publications which pay $2 per word" your tasks may be: * Go to the library and read magazines you could submit to * Research publications online And so on. Writing everything down, from your goals to the tasks in your schedule, is the key to writing success. Ready to plan? Create a goal today to make more money from your freelance writing. Prepare to be shocked -- you can achieve just about any goal you set, if you plan. buy essay
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