Setting Your Rates
Can You Put Unbylined Clips in Your Portfolio?
Writers often ask me questions via email, at conferences, through Facebook messenger or in The Freelance Content Marketing Writer group on Facebook. And over the years, I’ve been surprised that this is consistently the most frequently asked question. Sometimes this question comes in the form of a problem: “I don’t know what to do for…
[Read more...]Should You Create a Rate Card?
Note from Jennifer: Want to learn more about content marketing? Register for the ASJA Virtual Conference held April 16 to 29 and use the code ContentMarketingEarlyBird to get the early bird pricing. The code is valid until midnight Friday Feb 5th. Check out the conference webpage for more information. You can register for the whole…
[Read more...]How to Walk Away From a Low Paying Potential Client
Note from Jennifer: I often say that the clients that you choose to walk away from determines your income level more than the clients you work with. And yes, turning down work is super hard during normal times, but even harder during a global pandemic. But when you take a client that pays too low,…
[Read more...]Here’s where freelance content marketing writers find clients and the types of work they do
A few months ago the results of a survey of freelance content marketing writers that revealed the average hourly rates writers are earning in different niches. That data was so insightful that I couldn’t resist gathering some more pay-related information. For this second survey, I asked writers in my Freelance Content Marketing Writer group on…
[Read more...]Here’s what freelance content marketing writers are earning according to niche
For years, I’ve been writing this blog and handing out free advice to other freelance content marketing writers based on my observations, my conversations with other writers and with editors, and a little bit based on the occasional freelance writer report that surfaces. But there isn’t a lot of data out there specific to content…
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