Pro blogging: freelance blog writing is easy money

by angela.booth on August 17, 2007


Pro blogging (freelance writing for blogs) has really taken off in a big way in 2007. If you’re not writing for a blog, you’re missing out on some very nice (and very easy) money.

“How to Become a Freelance Blog Writer” gives you a good introduction to what’s involved in freelance blogging.

You need your own blog(s) to build your blogging muscles

Create a blog or two of your own before you go looking for blogging gigs. Not only do you seem more professional, but you’ll find that as your blog gets traffic, you’ll get offers to blog for others.

Give yourself a couple of months of blogging before you start to market yourself and accept blogging gigs. I’ve been blogging since 2001, and I can write a blog post of a few hundred words within 20 minutes, but I’ve built my blogging muscles, so to speak. Everything takes longer when it’s new to you, so you’ll get faster at planning, researching and writing blog posts the more you do it.

Tip: Blogging is all about ideas, so you need a way to collect them. I keep a blog log – a Tinderbox file with blog ideas: this lets me click and start typing a post within seconds. I carry around index cards and transfer the info on them to a Tinderbox file at the end of each day, so I’ve always got blog posts planned and ready to jump into. I scribble onto the index cards everywhere – I’ll even pull over when I’m driving so I can jot down an idea.

As well as getting comfortable with the blogging process, start exploring Web sites and blogs to see what others are doing, and create a list of topics you’d be comfortable blogging about.

Read my Blogging For Dollars ebook to get a comprehensive how-to of blogging, with a blogging plan; as the title suggests, I wrote the ebook for people who want to make a career of pro blogging.

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