Finding Online Writing Gigs

Allison on January 25th, 2012

Just a short post today, because I wanted to share with you what happens when you set a goal to achieve something with your writing. I set myself a goal at the beginning of January to find ONE new client via my professional website, www.allisonwhitehead.co.uk. While some clients have found me through this blog, I [...]

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I have had an interesting start to the New Year. I made it a goal that I would find at least one new client during January, and I’ve landed one today. But it came about in an interesting way. Judging by the emails I get asking about how to get into online writing, it seems [...]

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Allison on November 8th, 2011

How often do you really search for freelance writing opportunities? I’ve been a bit more active on LinkedIn lately and I’ve noticed some people tend to take part in a lot of conversations on there, many of them about freelance writing opportunities. That’s great because there are a lot of really nice people (writers from [...]

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Allison on October 9th, 2010

It’s time to take part in a new poll about paid writing jobs.

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Probably most people who have an online writing career will have been affected in one way or another by the recession. I think I have weathered it quite well all in all, but that’s not to say I haven’t had to make changes an

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When you think about writing for online markets, what type of work do you think of?

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Allison on December 30th, 2009

Finding online writing work is a never ending task. Unless you get a job as part of a writing team – which pretty much guarantees you will get ongoing work – you will have to look for your own writing gigs.

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Allison on December 27th, 2009

Online writing doesn’t just fall into one huge category. There is a lot more to it than that.

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Selling articles online is what most online writers want to do. And it is possible to make a good living from it.

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Allison on December 5th, 2009

We all have our own little ways and means, don’t we?

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Allison on November 18th, 2009

I did today. Let’s face it, most of the writing jobs you find online tend to fall into the same groups over and over again. It’s not often you see a job asking for quizzes, so I applied.

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Allison on October 28th, 2009

Some online writers earn peanuts. Others earn enough to only work part time for a full time – and very nice sized – wage.

So how do you make sure you fall into the second group?

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

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Allison on September 23rd, 2009

The answer has to be “plenty”. But quite often we find ourselves visiting the same old sites we always visit. It can be tough to inject any new excitement into our search for writing jobs. And yet when most writers are heading towards the same old sources all the time, it means there is a heck of a lot of competition out there you are up against.

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