Write. by karindalziel

The Wall Street Journal reports that America’s newest profession is blogging for hire. Mark Penn reports that there are more people making a living from blogging in the United States than there are lawyers or computer programmers or firefighters. He writes that in a nation of over 20,000,000 bloggers, we have 452,000 people using blogging as his/her primary source of income.

Basics from this article about bloggers: “Demographically, bloggers are extremely well educated: three out of every four are college graduates. Most are white males reporting above-average incomes. One out of three young people reports blogging, but bloggers who do it for a living successfully are 2% of bloggers overall. It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year. Bloggers can get $75 to $200 for a good post, and some even serve as “spokesbloggers” — paid by advertisers to blog about products. As a job with zero commuting, blogging could be one of the most environmentally friendly jobs around — but it can also be quite profitable. For sites at the top, the returns can be substantial. At some point the value of the Huffington Post will no doubt pass the value of the Washington Post.”

Angela Booth recommends blogging to begin a freelance writing career because you must establish your credentials. The most important credential a blogger or freelance writer can have are numerous mentions in Google under your name. After you have made a name for yourself, you will receive offers of free lance writing jobs.

How do you learn about blog writing? Ask Anne the Pro Writer

Freelance Writing–an Excellent Career Opportunity Includes several benefits for being a freelance writer: it is completely flexible, you choose your income amount, and you get to learn “on the Job”.

Michelle writes about what the well-dressed blog post contains. She recommends posts that have good writing, are heavy on context, with a clever headline, using visuals, including links to good blog posts, with keywords and tags, and having been given some promotion.

More blogging tips are given at: 5 ways to blog every day without freaking out.

Before beginning to blog, Angela Booth recommends that you: (1) set a focus for your blog, (2) build an audience with your enthusiasm, and (3) set goals and blog every day.

Writing...by dabawenya

A blog is the reflection of an author’s interests. In creating a blog about jobs that I want to use as a marketing tool for Twitter, Relax Into Getting a Job, I began studying the freelance field. Many people who never knew they could write and enjoy it have been created via blogging and the avenue of self-publishing. I am one of those people. But after four years + of writing for my own blogs, I want to branch out and write for others.

I have acquired 600 blogs in my Google Reader and have learned to quickly scan the blog for the topics being written about (never end a sentence with a preposition–former English teacher in the house).

Using Alltop–which is where I always start with a topic search–under the category of work, I found 68 separate resources–blogs and sites–for freelance jobs. 68 resources!! One of the sites, writing bids, has 34 separate categories for freelance writing jobs.

Writing bids has these categories to search for jobs with quick link searches for each: article writing, content writing, copywriting, website writing, blog writing, book writing, ghostwriting, health writing, grant writing, tech writing, PR writing, editing, proofwriting, translation, research, re-writing, and resume writing. What a feast for writers!

About freelance writing has 69 freelance writing jobs for May 6, 2009. The jobs have been divided between jobs that pay a decent amount and jobs that are low paying ($10/article or $5 per blog post or less).

Current freelance writing jobs:

http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/05/13/alternative-income-streams/

http://www.ifreelance.com/project/detail.aspx?projectid=38294

http://www.aboutfreelancewriting.com/2009/05/freelance-writing-jobs-wednesday-may-13-2009/

About freelance writing:

http://www.aboutfreelancewriting.com/2009/05/were-so-lucky/

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=77&aid=163406