Guest post by Bamidele Ojo For over four years, I worked as a content writer on freelance marketplaces… writing for peanuts. Things changed, however, when I came across detailed information about how to land clients with cold pitching. Finding clients through freelance marketplaces is not bad, as long as you earn decent rates to justify your hard work. When you’re paid only peanuts, however, it becomes a form of slavery. What makes cold pitching different from other forms of clients’ prospecting? Why is cold pitching effective for getting high paying clients? How did ..read more

  While there are countless ways to get clients as a freelance writer, cold pitching is undoubtedly one of the easiest and fastest; as part of a cold pitching experiment I did sometime ago, I was able to land a new client that instantly awarded me a $625 writing gig in 2 hours and $5,025 in freelance writing work within a few months. What was the exact pitch I sent? Why was my pitch effective? This article answers both questions and gives you 12 different cold pitch templates you can use to get results during the COVID-19 pandemic. How to Send a Cold Pitch Before going ahead to read ..read more

One of the very first things you need to do during a cold pitching campaign is to prospect for companies to pitch. As a freelance writer, you don’t just go and randomly start pitching people. Instead, using a refined set of criteria you first come up with a list of qualified prospects you will be sending your cold pitches to. In this video, I give a thorough walkthrough of how to prospect as a freelance writer. The video shares the exact steps I take when prospecting for clients as a freelance writer. Using the health and wellness industry as an example, I come up with a list of 48 viable pros ..read more

Abraham Lincoln famously said, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.” This Lincoln quote makes one thing very clear: effort alone is not enough to succeed in any endeavor. You also have to be smart and strategic. As we gear up to start the 30-day cold pitching challenge, where the focus is on cold pitching businesses and corporate clients, the importance of having the right strategy cannot be overstated. With the right strategy, you can get impressive results with minimal effort. That is why the very first thing we’d be doing for the 30-day ..read more

I’ve been a freelance writer for about a decade now, and I’ve been teaching people how to make a living writing for about eight years. While I’ve achieved quite a bit within this period, one of the achievements I am most proud of is the success of the Earn Your First $1,000 as a Freelance Writer challenge that I launched four years ago. The goal of the challenge was simple: I’ll act as a beginner in an entirely different niche, with a pseudonym and without using my network or existing resources, and go from ZERO to my first $1,000 in two months. Most importantly, I’ll publicly ..read more

By Waliyulah Olayide Imagine you opened a shopping mall. The name and popularity of your mall have attracted potential buyers. Entering your mall, you knew a visiting prospect would be persuaded to buy a thing or two. Alas, your entrance is waterlogged with the rain that fell the other day! What will a potential buyer do? Even if your mall had the best stock in town, it won’t matter. A potential customer, disgusted, will likely pretend that they forgot something in the car, turn back and leave your mall — for good. Your article is like that. As a freelancer, business owner or an entrepreneur w ..read more

While there has been a general lack of data on the impact of COVID-19 for writers, it is clear that freelance writers have been seriously affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Take the airline industry as an example: Available data shows that four of the five biggest inflight magazines have shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If major magazines like Delta Sky and Southwest, reputed for paying writers a minimum of $1 per word, have had to shut down due to COVID-19, you can only imagine what it means for smaller players. The impact of COVID-19 extends beyond just the airline industry; the tr ..read more

You probably have several questions about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the freelance writing industry: What are the implications of the coronavirus pandemic for freelance writers? How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected freelance writers when it comes to getting jobs and/or getting paid? More importantly, how are freelance writers feeling about what the future holds due to the coronavirus pandemic? I have answers to the above questions and more! To assess the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on freelance writers and the freelance writing industry in general, Writers in Charge s ..read more

Our world is being impacted in a way we’ve never witnessed in a very long time: the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak has affected pretty much every country in the world, leaving hundreds of thousands infected and almost 10,000 dead at the time of writing this. Much worse is the fact that many believe that the outbreak is only just beginning and will continue for a while. Now, I’m not one to panic or fuel panic in anyway (which explains why I’m only just writing about this — there’s no point using my influence to drive panic around this unless I have something very reasonable to say) but I ..read more

Would you like to get paid to do online writing jobs in 2020? One of the best ways to get paid to write is by actively seeking websites and online publications that pay writers. You can then send your submissions to these websites and get paid when your article is accepted or published. If done right, you can earn a full-time living doing online writing jobs just for these websites. It is also important to clarify that the websites and publications featured on this list do not use a revenue-share model or any kind of arrangement in which payment is uncertain. Instead, they pay a fixed (and cle ..read more