5 Tips For
Bloggers For Hire
By Alyice Edrich
I started blogging for personal reasons: to keep in
touch with long
distant friends and relatives. Then I added a Q&A blog
(http://thedabblingmum.blogspot.com) for my magazine
(http://thedabblingmum.com) to host interviews I conduct
with authors
and entrepreneurs. Now I get paid to ghostwrite for
blogs and you can
too!
Tip #1
Understand the industry you want to be paid to blog for.
Let's assume you enjoy health and nutrition and have
read up on this
topic for years. In fact, you know many facts and
"insider secrets"
by heart and often share this information with friends,
relatives,
and strangers in your local health food store. That's a
topic you
could easily be paid to write about. Because of your
vast knowledge,
the posts will come easy and when they don't your
magazine
subscriptions will offer plenty of food for thought.
Tip #2
Never accept a non-compete contract.
As a blog writer, you will make your living writing for
various
blogs. A non-compete clause will prevent you from
writing about the
same topic on another blog and that's not good for
business.
| As a health and
nutrition specialist, you may write for a vegetarian blog, a holistic
treatment blog, a vitamin company's blog, and even a diet blog. There's
no competition there, right? And no "conflict of interest", correct? The
non-compete clause won't even apply. |
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But what if you're asked to write for
another vegetarian blog? That's
when the non-compete clause kicks in and prevents you
from earning a
better living. Is there really a conflict of interest?
Not if you
don't post the same information on both blogs. You can
write for five
different vegetarian blogs and still not show a conflict
of interest.
It's all about choosing a different angle on the same
idea and
writing about it.
Tip #3
Never rely on revenue sharing as your sole source of
income.
You're job as a blog writer is to write about topics
relevant to the
blog's theme and interact with commenters. Your job
isn't to market
and advertise the blog. That's the company's job. If the
company
isn't pulling its weight, the ad revenue will not exist
and if the ad
revenue doesn't exist, neither does your salary. It's
best to be paid
a flat fee, but if the company you truly want to work
for only pays
in ad revenue, negotiate a monthly stipend plus a
percentage of the
ad revenues.
If you're going to get paid based on ad revenue or
clicks, and you're
job is to also promote and market the blog, you should
start your own
blog. That way, you get to keep all the income you earn
and don't
have to share the revenues with a company who isn't
doing anything to
help promote the blog—aside from hosting (which you can
get for as
little as $7 a month and free if you stick to blog
networks.)
Tip #4
Get paid in advance.
Tip #5
When writers' block hits, to a search online.
Sometimes bloggers get what's known as "writers' block".
Writers'
block simply means you've run out of ideas to write
about. It happens
to the best of us, but it doesn't have to hurt your
career as a
blogger for hire. When writers' block occurs, get online
and search
for blogs, websites, and forums related to your blog's
topic. After a
half hour to an hour of reading, you'll have plenty of
ideas to write
about.
About The Author:
Alyice Edrich is a
blogger for hire and may be reached
at
http://alyiceedrich.com
.
To learn more about running a successful home business,
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