How Do I Become a Professional Provider of Content For Other Bloggers?

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Contact blog owners with samples of your content, and let them know your rates.

Also, check the "Warriors Wanting To Hire You" section here on the forum, could be a good place to start.

Know any good step-by-step articles, on the subject?

If you want to be a professional writer, you need to learn how to do the necessary research to answer your questions.
You also need to write....lots of different things. They can be added as a portfolio for your site....you do have one, I hope. If not, you need to build a site or pay somebody to do it for you.

If you expect everybody to give you all the answers, then maybe you need a J.O.B. instead.

J. O. B Tried that, and quite seriously. Yes, I have enough writing samples for a portfolio.
I'll need to gather.

Also, what would be good beginner rates, anyway, or is that something I should be "looking up myself"? Also, keep in mind, I've been dedicating eight hours a day, five days a week--at least, to make this work, as blogger. This is hard, lonely work--and I mean work--so I kind of resent that.

You resent having to work hard?
OK. Please take what I say as advice and not as someone "picking on you."

If you resent having to work hard for yourself, then maybe you really don't want to do this work. Working for an employer for a set number of hours per week is relatively easy because you know you earn a certain amount each week.

As your own boss, you can choose how much or how little to work but you do need to work hard IF you want to achieve success. It won't happen overnight.
I would recommend making a list of goals... things you want to achieve. Split them into short, medium and long term goals.

Then make a list of all the tasks you need to do to achieve your goals. It won't work out exactly the way you plan but if you don't have a plan to begin with, then you'll spend countless hours doing the wrong things.

Become an avid reader. Read fiction and nonfiction. Read books on how to become a better writer. Topics will include marketing, making lists, pricing your work, how and where to advertise your services, social media, and so on.

Reading will improve your vocabulary and help you become a better writer.
Writing is another essential. Write as much as you can, on any topic, so you gain a broad knowledge.

Look for clients and earn money by writing for them. Look everywhere. If you haven't done much paid work, perhaps you need to evaluate your starting prices to help build a portfolio of experience and grab testimonials from customers who are happy with your work.

If you still find yourself feeling resentful, then maybe it's not for you. You need a thick skin, patience, perseverance and self-confidence.

I do wish you well in your endeavour.

Aha. Now you have learned a valuable lesson.
When you write, you need to be clear about your message.
It seemed like you resented working hard.
It's good that you don't.
I never said you had a bad attitude. However, your message was unclear which is why I am perhaps being a little hard on you.
Would you rather somebody who just says how wonderful you are?
If so, then I am not that person.

As I first suggested, make your lists and focus on achieving even the smallest of tasks. You'll be harder on yourself than any other boss could be and that's good BUT you also need to give yourself a break. Don't try to do everything at once.

Second guessing yourself will happen. It happens to us all at one time or another. Do the work anyway. Given enough time, you'll get there if you have more faith in yourself too.

Well, I am having trouble, prioritizing. Getting to the point where people will hire me ranks first, though, as I think it should. At the same time, I am also focused on learning video editing, for Youtube, a longer-term investment, but vital.

As for finding my samples, I can't recall what I did with them, either on my computer, or in my email account. As I recall, one was about Putin and the Ukraine, from last year. I'll have to talk to search engine specialist about it, I guess, to figure how to find it.

In any case, most of my articles remain, on this old blog, here:https://noitartst.wordpress.com/

I also have another inactive blog still up, showing some of my creative work, telling the fairytale-esque story of a Catholic mid, the ghost that appears from her vanity mirror, and proceeds to teach her sorcery. Link, here:The Vanity Mirror…and Other Visions | 4 out of 5 dentists recommend this WordPress.com site

Basically, I have taken pop songs across the spectrum of some fifty years, and reworked them, ala Weird Al, to tell, kind of, a morality play. Oh, and I also have a version of it, as an epic poem.

Don't think anyone's gonna ask me to write a blog in verse, but it shows just what I'm capable of, if nothing else.

How to portray my samples, though, in an appetizing way, conditioned to appeal to the market? We're talking salability, not art school, here, and I was wondering how to do so.

You need to search and contacting other bloggers.

How so, specifically? I punch in google looking for the top foreign policy blogs, and get drowned in the professionalism, to the point that it's distracting me from scoping it out, which actually is the sign os a well-designed blog, I guess--pressure people to subscribing. Wading through them is not fun, but a jungle of ads for the un-initiated, like me.

I need a better strategy, I guess, because this is kind of intimidating, and making me doubt not my ability, but is drowning me in complexity, and doubt.

Hmm you might have a target market!

That would put you far ahead of most writers.

So what marketing collateral have you prepared that positions you as a content writer for foreign policy blogs?

Do you have a site that mimics a blog like that, showcasing your talent and interest?

Do you have a pdf potential buyers can download?

Do you have a 10-minute audio interview with Q&As explaining why you're the best choice for this niche?


And then answer the all-important question: where do foreign affairs bloggers hang out? Where can you get in front of them?

Because they DO gather...somewhere.

Traffic

and

Conversion.

The two halves of any sales funnel.

Your situation is no different.

Where can you find a steady source of buyer leads...and what can you use to persuade them you're the best for the job?

Incidentally, I've gotten clients without a website, and I never use samples or a portfolio. So they aren't necessary...you might be stuck thinking they are. There are other factors. The key is credibility. Why the heck should some policy wonk let you touch THEIR blog? Answer that question, and you'll be well on your way.

BTW this forum has a Copywriting section. There are loads of people who have gotten clients and talked about it in there, including me. But I've given you the meat of the thing here.

Do you have your own blog?
If you don't, start it immediatelly!
The best sample of your skills is your own blog. A lot of blog's owners would let you s
maintain their blogs. Show them, you are able not only to write articles, but to edit and publish them.
Do that, and then add the link to you blog in your signature here, on WarriorForum.

You have to market yourself to these bloggers. It all boils down to marketing.

- Get a site
- Promote your services on your site
- Demonstrate expertise
- Promote everywhere on internet
- Demonstrate expertise to your email list
- Advertise
- Warrior For Hire
- Participate and make yourself known on relevant blogs
- etc this stuff is easy

Do what I did. Get on Upwork and build up regular clients, then start your own site selling niche writing services. I now specialise in writing natural-looking content for linkbuilding Web 2.0 sites, it's not what I planned, but your journey will tell you what provides value and makes money.

search out in Google for the niche blogs for which you want to write...

approach the bloggers or those bog owners to write with the help of a sample content...

once you are approved just start writing for the respective blog...

For some reason, I am having trouble using this site's multi-quote--quite annoying, really.

John Kanigan, you're talking about a mental issue that's been holding me back.

For years. Don't know how to explain it, but I guess I feel the need to ask permission for things, and it's debilitating, but I have a hard time demanding, or taking. I've tried to assert authority in certain areas, but failed, and have feelings of unworthiness, or something. Not a really relevant place to talk about these psychological issues, where I seem to be fighting myself, wasting time and energy beating myself up, so moving on.

What is Upwork?

Also, so you know, on my own i read this article:
How to Turn Quora into a Traffic-Driving Machine for Your Blog

I think I almost understand this, and am working, to implement. Am looking up Upwork, now.

Okay, have an Upwork account, operational, now.
Any article on how to use upwork, by the way?

Right now, I'm focusing on working on my Quora profile, not my Upwork, for one, here:
https://www.quora.com/profile/Philip-Carpenter-2

Doesn't help that I haven't had much jobs, since college, and was wondering how to coach that.
At any rate, I'm working on it, and am ready to revise it, some more.

No it's not transparent. This is the stuff that you (and everyone else looking to make a living from IM) have to figure out. Those who do, get the rewards.

So it can be hard especially in the beginning but being able to work for yourself is a form of FREEDOM.

We all have mental 'issues' that hold us back from time to time. This is something that we all have to work on in order to move forward in this line of work (and life in general).

I don't know jack about 'Foreign Policy' but get the feeling that if you figure this stuff out, you will do extremely well.

do you offer your services on fiverr?

you can see sites like iwriter where you can offer
your writing skills to many requester who are in
need of it..
rueben

Still don't understand the multi-quote function, here.

My apologies, Jason; I'm really trying to develop a game plan for myself, going forward, and it seems all too vague for me at this point, to follow. Looking back, I thought that post too trite, but now I think I better understand what you were saying.

My instinct is to adapt to the audience, but adapting to an audience that isn't there is harder, and I need more specifics, really, moving forward on blogging, or whatever. There seem so many possibilities, and that leads, often, to paralysis.

At this point, really, it seems most sensible to me to make a board of all I understand, or think I understand, as well as all my questions.

No, I do not adverise on Fiverr, because like a lot of things online, I do not understand Fiverr.

Game Plan Development:
1. Start making content for other bloggers; you'll make a name for yourself, and it will also drive traffic to your blog, when you have it. Doing questions on Quora also drives traffic to your blog, too.
How do you market yourself to other bloggers, then? You do so via a site like Upwork, I hear, but how do I do that right? Is iWriter a site of the same variety as Upwork?

Look; I have only $2,000 dollars in savings, and I'm devoting pretty much all to learning video editing and blogging, and could be spending that time getting a deadend job I'm lame at ,but instead am channeling my resources toward something I'm good at, as in writing. I'm confused, frustrated, and irritated, but I'm moving ahead, anywho. When someone says I should spend money this, or that way, though, I balk; I'm burning through cash, and don't part with dough gladly. I must, but it is something that should make me pause. I could really use a guide, or mentor, but I don't have one, someone that I could trust walking through this funhouse labyrinth.

Without one, I am forced to work with greater slowness, and caution. Am I doing alright on my Qoura profile? Should I mention my lame jobs as recommendation? Are the topics I'm focusing too broad? Too narrow?

See what my problem is? I could use some hands-on mentoring, but can I afford it? Or can I find it? I'm listening to a lot, but involved human supp ort I trust is what I really crave. Heard good things about this forum, here: ClickNewz Members Area
But it's some thirty bucks, a month. Maybe it is what I'm looking for, maybe not, but such is what I'm faced with--dilemmas.
Basically, I'm trying to simplify, and break down the big tasks into smaller, bite-sized ones, and figure out when to move on.
So you know, I'm thinking of Quora, in particular, given I seem to almost get it; answer questions with massive followers, you get some to follow you to you blog. Also, though no one has mentioned it specifically, the Quora model could be applied to a YouTube channel.
One time, I made a controversial remark on a thread, and irate music lovers contacted me with venom for months afterward. Nothing I didn't deserve, but that could be a way to get viewers to my channel.
2. Build your blog site, with an eye to make sure you convert traffic into subscribers. Also afford a decent server, for the inevitable crash, so that you'll get tech support.
This could be step 1, but what I'm really concerned about, is, I have no confidence in driving traffic to my site, yet.
I'm certainly no atheist, but atheist channels, which has excellent humorous, and intellectual content, fits the model of low views, but high subscribership, doesn't it? Some set-up like that could fit me, I'm just saying.

I need to really develop a greater step-by-step process to develop my blog, know what to do when, and the like; otherwise, I'll get overwhelmed with detail, as I think you can see.

I think, for now that getting my resume out as a guest blogger on Upwork, and figuring out how to use Quora come first, yes? For now, the big big picture is just too confusing, and stressful.

The only other competition for priority, is just find a mentor.

Hm...was reading up on Upwork, and its profile. Doesn't Video Editing fall under the moniker of "Video Production"?

Learning to edit. Can't say I'm ready to be hired, because I ain't skilled enough, but I am working, at it.

Here's my Upwork profile, here: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~016c26fb14d0a35f27

Lousy, I suppose--but, I am trying to improve it. How should I do so? For starters, I was wondering about the relevancy of my job history, given it is irrelevant to the work I claim the capability of doing--Occam's razor, isn't it?

I really am trying to get better, and was genuinely wondering of the importance to mention jobs--I mean, these aren't nine-to-five gigs, we're speaking of.

Try offer your service on freelancer's websites...

freelancer.com, upwork.com, fiverr.com.. just to name a few.

It depends on how you writing skills occurs in you. Because now a days content marketing becomes very importing in internet marketing field and every time you need unique content to promote your products or services.

I understand what you mean by feeling demotivated sometimes when you know you can write but don't have high-dollar clients to show for it. It happens to a lot of writers because, well, we aren't always marketers. Unfortunately, we need to be good marketers when we are self employed because we want someone to hire us.

Two ideas here: consider writing a little for a local freebie weekly newspaper. They exist and they almost always need writers (even if you write a post for free once a month). You may be able to link to your blog or put a tagline in about being available to local businesses for writing jobs.

2: you mentioned foreign policy.. if you are passionate about it, write about it. You will gain readership because it is such a specific niche. So many bloggers are not experts at all when they start out. There's some crime blogger out there who isn't even a good writer but tons of people know who she is because it is such a niche market. She gets plenty of opportunities because of it. (Sorry that I can't remember her name right now; I know of her just because another writing group I'm in discussed her recently so I looked her up.)

The WarriorForum could be a good starting point. Your target audience is definitely here, maybe not in huge numbers but enough for a test run. You could open a thread in the marketplace, also containing some of your previous work and find clients that way.