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November 23, 2005
Freelancing
Good point by Daniel Radosh on being a successful freelancer:
what really worked to my advantage is that nobody stays in one job for very long in this business, so if you start out knowing three editors at one magazine, pretty soon you know three editors at three different magazines, plus a new one at the first magazine. And with each move, they get more power to assign stories. My career has been helped immensely by sitting around waiting for people I know to land better jobs.
Actually, I don't really know if that's a good point, as I'm not a successful freelancer, but it certainly seems right. My freelancing jobs have tended to emerge through people who knew me in real life or folks who read my blog, cold-calling never amounted to much. Daniel Radosh, incidentally, was very helpful with a bad idea I had for an article on Garden State, but, mercifully for both our reputations, I never followed up.
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Well, that's the best way to get jobs in most fields.
Posted by: J Bean | Nov 24, 2005 11:29:06 AM
Hello and congrats for having such a well organized blog. I’ve been working as a freelancer for a few years now, and I gradually eliminated the flaws and mistakes any newbie freelancer makes. Here are some of my thoughts: there are plenty of freelancing websites that offer free subscription, so you can try your luck with one of those. Of course, if you want to have less competition and access to better paid projects, try a subscription paid web site. You can then select the categories where you believe you are skilled in. Ranging from coding, beta-testing, graphic and web design and going to translations, content writing and data base management, you will definitely find a freelance category that will go well with your skills.
I also wanted to put together a free guide for beginners in the online freelancing world – you can check it out by reading my guide on the pros and cons of online freelancing I’d be happy to receive suggestions as to how to improve my guide and informative articles.
Thanks,
Michael Rad
Webmaster of www.Web2earn.com
Posted by: Michael Rad | May 4, 2006 5:30:21 AM
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