Finding NEW places to sell your work
I’ve been running a survey as well as asking my list what is important to writers to help them build their business. The most common question that gets asked – by far – is: Where can I find more high-paying freelance writing jobs?
In response, I’m working on a guide to the many sites on the ‘Net for publishing work or picking up jobs. There seems to be plenty of work out there, but it’s also super-competitive. I am still always surprised that so many writers seem to be digging so hard to find “jobs” instead of creating and publishing on their own. Aren’t we all getting fed up trying to sell editors on our book and article ideas? The waiting, the low pay, the brutal competition can all lead us to rethink our chosen line of work!
So my question is: Why not create your own materials and sell them direct to the public?
That’s why my upcoming report about places to sell your work (stay tuned for details!) will include places to sell YOUR OWN work, right to willing and ready buyers! Of course, you need to do the marketing too, to get the word out, but that’s the combination that will make you more money as a writer, and is what we’ll be working on here at SFW.
Even more to the point: I recently completed an interview with writer and publisher Tiffany Dow. She’s a well known writer for the Internet marketing niche, and started out picking up ghostwriting jobs. From there, she learned what her clients were doing and started building her own business. She’s now a six-figure writer, and has her hands full with interesting projects that she chooses. You can download a free copy of the interview right here.
Why keep sending out queries when it’s not the most dollar-productive work you can do? I’d like to hear your $.02 about writing for magazines, editors, and traditional media, vs. creating and selling your own content. What is your most dollar productive activity – and are you doing it? Are you hesitant to create you own content, and if so, why?
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April 21st, 2008
Hooray! The feed is working now.
You’re touching on something I’ve been trying to tell fellow writers for ages. Writing and selling their own ebooks and leveraging their content writing skills for profit is definitely the way to go online. It’s a new market with new rules and different from what print writers are used to. The value is in doing your own thing, which is something that Tiffany taught me too! I enjoyed your q&A with her….she’s one of my Internet “she-roes.”
April 21st, 2008
And writers of all genres are doing this, fiction writers, nonfiction writers; it’s more about finding new ways to package and reach people where they are in this technological age – not abandoning the print world but there is so much more now! We’ll cover much more about this here on SFW in the coming months.