Posts by Jennifer Goforth Gregory
Increase Your Content Marketing Writing Income By Outsourcing
It’s easy to think that the best way to make the highest income is to do all of your tasks yourself and spend as little money as possible. But I have found that once you have a steady client base and are making at least $100 per hour on average without outsourcing, the opposite is…
[Read more...]Why You Should Not Be a Health, Technology, Finance, Food or Travel Content Marketing Writer
I’m exhausted and energized at the same time. I spent the past few days at the ASJA Dream Bold Regional Conference in Atlanta. I got to hang out with writer friends (if you ever get a chance to go on the Wine Walk in Decatur, GA, your answer should be yes), meet longtime blog readers…
[Read more...]Favorite Blog Posts You Might Have Missed
I realized this week that I have written a lot of blog posts in the past three and a half years. When I started in 2013, I was basically writing for myself for a good six months. Literally, some weeks there were like seven page views and I think they were all mine or my…
[Read more...]How to Calculate Your Rate for a Content Marketing Deliverable
I hate giving quotes. Rates and time zones are my least favorite parts of freelancing. Yes, I somehow manage to mess up time zones WAY more than I would like to admit. But that’s another post. When pitching to journalism outlets, the editor typically has a set rate for freelancers, usually based on the word.…
[Read more...]5 Reasons You Cannot Compare Content Marketing & Journalism Rates
I remember the day that I got an assignment for a story paying $1 per word. I thought I had hit the big time. I even went out to dinner to celebrate. And called my mom to share the news. All my freelance life, I had heard that you should only take work paying over…
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