How to find full-time article writing jobs?

Originally Posted by nebraska

Put together a great writing sample and try for a 5 Star rating here:

Unique content - Textbroker.com

If you get graded as a 5 star, which is the highest, then you'll be close to what you're looking for per word. It's steady work there and you can keep busy. They'll pay directly to your Paypal account and are totally reliable.

But definitely put a lot of effort making that initial writing sample top shelf.

Otherwise, start a Warriors For Hire thread and let your talent speak for itself...you should be able to get that price in most cases.

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Hi Will, haven't seen you around much recently.



Very wise!

It's all about the markets in which one chooses to compete. The reality is simply that one competes in the markets in which one chooses to compete. And those depend simply on one's marketing skills as a writer, promoting one's own services.

Many people with genuinely valuable writing skills start off with very low-paid projects, thinking that this will help them to move on to higher-paid projects. It usually doesn't, at all. It's really important, I think, to avoid at the outset the mistake of imagining that it's sensible to "start off by writing for low prices" with a view to raising your prices after clients have seen what you can produce. When writing for online markets, it simply doesn't work that way: when you write for low prices you attract clients whose primary motivation is to pay low prices, and you lose almost all of them when you increase prices later.

You might find some/all of these resources helpful:-

Jennifer Mattern's blog

Carol Tice's blog

Freelance writing jobs (minmum payment requirement of $50 per article to be listed there)

Free report on how to attract new freelance writing clients during a recession

The Renegade Writer Blog

The "Irreverent Freelancer" blog

Many affiliate marketers here, in my experience, thinking of article marketing as "a way to bring in quick sales", sometimes look askance at higher prices. But those thinking in terms of "building a real business", and specifically in terms of ensuring gradual, widespread re-publication of their work in front of targeted audiences, so that others are effectively doing some of their off-page SEO for them, do understand the potential value of better quality work. (I strongly suspect that the reason one doesn't see such services widely advertised is that the people providing them are fully booked up with returning clients, and not really looking for new ones.) There's well paid work about.