Here’s what 5 days of hunting for online writing jobs can get you

The effort I put in last week – from Monday to Friday – in particular has been starting to pay dividends.

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But first a small piece of bad news.  Remember that blogging job I told you about, where I was going to do a couple of short pieces to see how things worked out?  Well I sent them off with my invoice and that was the last I heard from the guy.  It’s the first time I’ve ever been ‘done’, but I have still got the copyright to the articles and I fully intend to sell them elsewhere.  It didn’t take much time out of my day and the money will be recouped by selling them for usage rights, probably on Constant Content.  It’s annoying more than anything but to be honest I have been so busy going for other work that it didn’t really bug me for much longer than a minute!

So with that out of the way, here is what I managed to achieve in just 5 days:

• acceptance into two new writing teams, one of which looks to be particularly good news.  Lots of work and pretty good rates too.
• one more potential source of work from a website that has lots of work to offer.
• I’ve also made contact with another guy who is looking for someone to help out with some articles – just waiting to hear back on my first assignment with him.
• there are also two more websites that I could potentially be writing articles for in the near future – in fact I have just received payment for my first article for one of them as I’ve been writing this.

So it just goes to show how much you can achieve in a relatively short amount of time if you put your mind to it.  I was pretty busy with work last week, but I knew I could do with a bit more coming in this week, so I made the time to find those new leads.  There are more online writing jobs that I’ve applied for that I haven’t heard back from yet, but even if they don’t pan out it’s been a great start to the week.

And in addition to that, here’s what can happen when you finally get around to clearing out and deleting an old email account!  I came across the contact details for one of my earliest clients, so I decided I had nothing to lose and sent him an email.

Almost by return he said he’d love me to write more articles for him and he’s compiling a list of ideas right now.  Those spur of the moment ideas can really pay off sometimes!

So if you are thinking that there are no writing jobs out there, or you just can’t seem to find anything you like, KEEP ON LOOKING.  Perseverance is what separates the writers who find lots of work from the ones that don’t.  Good luck!

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