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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

How to Be Ruthless and Win at Freelance Blogging

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How to Be Ruthless and Win at Freelance Blogging

How to Be Ruthless and Win at Freelance Blogging

Most of us learn from an early age that to please others, we have to mind our manners and be prepared to compromise.
But that approach to life doesn’t work so well in freelance business, where being quiet and polite means going unnoticed — and accepting too many compromises leaves you working too hard for too low a rate.
I grew up in North Carolina, the land of sweet tea and southern belles. I was a nice girl — friendly and deferential, without too many strong opinions.
Then I suddenly became a single mom, with no income to speak of. I decided to give a real go at freelancing so I could stay home with my baby.
Without warning, all my plans were out the window and the safety net became very, very small. I had to roll up my sleeves and do some hard work. And with the little guy taking up most of my time, I didn’t have time for wheel-spinning, cowering, and other nonsense.
You don’t have time for those kinds of shenanigans, either.
If you really want to make a go at this freelancing thing, you need to be ruthless. 

“Ruthless,” really?

Yes, ruthless.
First, a disclaimer: I’m not talking about being unethical. No shady tactics, no cheating people, no lying about your work experience, no poaching customers from your client’s company (but you can borrow Sophie’s clients any time!).
What I’m talking about is cutting the fluff and no longer putting up with the things that get in the way of your success. I’m talking about setting priorities and not shifting them. Drawing red lines and not crossing them. Taking a deep breath and hitting ‘send’ on the scary email.
Being ruthless is not something that came naturally for me. I used to be pretty accommodating by nature, but it was getting in the way of my business growth. I had to learn how to hold myself — and my clients — to the highest standards, to the exclusion of anything that would slow me down.
It was uncomfortable at first, to be honest. There were quite a few pep talks before quoting a higher rate than I’d ever quoted before, and quite a few late nights poring over marketing practices trying to find the things I could do quickly but effectively.
But once I learned how to take charge of my business — including my day-to-day schedule — things began to shift. And the key was ruthlessly getting rid of all the ridiculousness that I’d been tolerating up to that point.
Are you dealing with too many shenanigans, too? Here’s a good starting point for your new training in ruthlessness.

Establish your rates — no exceptions!

When you need work — especially when you reeeeeeally need work — it can be easy to undercut your efforts by taking ridiculously low-paid work just to get some sort of money rolling in the door.
Here’s the thing: that is an extremely short-sighted strategy. If you need $50 to pay the power bill tomorrow before they cut the lights off, OK. But if you aren’t in that kind of immediate emergency, do not compromise on your rates. Set your floor and don’t go below it.
Not sure what your floor is? Here’s a quick guideline: you don’t write anything for less than 10 cents per word. Even if you’ve only been freelancing for 5 minutes. Some people think that’s crazy advice, but who cares? We’re being ruthless, remember?
To start landing clients that will pay that kind of rate, it’s time to start pitching (more) aggressively.
A good place to start is The Ultimate List of Better-Paid Blogging Gigs, which you can download for free here at BAFB. But don’t expect that list (or any other directory of paying markets) to make it easy for you. They’re only starting points.
You’ll still need to put in the time it takes to find your own clients. And when you land gigs, it’ll be down to you to ask for half the fee up front to get your cash flow started.
And while we’re on the subject of rates, what’s up with yours?
Have you been quoting the same rate for more than 6 months now? If so, it’s time to give yourself a raise. It’s not that hard — you just need to do it. Here’s how it works:
The next new client you land gets a higher rate quoted. It’s that simple.
Mentioning a per-word rate is kind of like splitting hairs to me, and I don’t have time for that. One strategy I like to use instead, especially when stretching to a higher rate, is to quote a flat fee for any given project.
So if a client comes to me and asks how much I’d charge for a long-form post that’s 1500-2000 words, I’ll send back one flat fee that’s based on the higher word count using my per-word rate. (For example, if your minimum rate is 10 cents per word, the flat fee for that post would be $200. And if you’ve been sitting at 10 cents per word for a while and you want to stretch to 12, you’d quote $240 for the post.)
If your rates are really low, make the jump up to 10 cents per word immediately.(If the idea of that gives you a panic attack, settle for 8 cents. Once you land one client at 8 cents, quote the next one at 9. And if you can get 9 cents per word, you can surely do 10.)
If you’ve got the chops, the portfolio, and the professional demeanor to back it up, you’ll land work at your new rate.
And if you find yourself getting pushback from all directions, it’s time to take a closer look at what you’re doing.
Is your site strong? Are your pitches compelling? Ask the opinion of a fellow freelancer you respect. Not sure who ask? You can always talk to me — find me at the BAFB forum or at my site.

Define the scope up front

Clients are wonderful. They are manna-bearing dreamboats of clips and cash and the answer to all of your freelancing hopes and dreams. I love clients.
The thing is, clients are sometimes completely clueless. In fact, the bane of every contractor’s existence is not taxes as you might assume — it’s scope creep.
Scope creep happens when you agree to do a project, and then after you get to work there are about a hundred-thousand new little things that creep up and eat away at your profitability.
Sometimes it’s a request for a 4th round of revisions. Sometimes it’s “We’d like you tosend an image, too.” Sometimes it’s “could you suggest a few Twitter updates we could attach to this?” or other such nonsense. There are even clients who want to have phone calls with you all the time about your assignment, when one quick chat will suffice.
Don’t let scope creep happen to you. Define exactly what you will (and won’t) be doing, for exactly how much money, before you do one single search or write one single word.
Get it all down in writing, and get the client to sign off before you start. (This is a great time to work in that half-the-fee deposit up front, by the way!)
  • Only want to do one round of revisions? Put it in the contract.
  • Do they expect an image? That’ll mean an adjusted (read: higher) rate for the piece.
  • You’d love to offer some social media suggestions, and those come a la carte at a rate of ABC for XYZ updates.
If you’re in the middle of scope creep right now, you may feel stuck or nervous about dealing with it — but if your client requests more stuff, don’t be afraid to say “I’d be happy to provide that for you, but it’s beyond the scope of our original agreement. If you’d like to add it on, I’ll just invoice you for an additional $__.”

Shut down distractions

I mean things like technology. Living distractions require a different approach, because they don’t have an “off” button. If you (like me) have small and/or large people — and sometimes pets — running around underfoot, you might be better off with a pet gate or something.
I’m talking about all the things we let steal our attention. Things like email, notifications, social media (do not even get me started on social media), and that kind of thing.
What you need is an iron grasp on your schedule.
Set yourself some basic workday rules. For example:
  • Don’t check your email until you’ve done 30-60 minutes of marketing or other business-building. (And business-building does not mean tweeting at people.)
  • Close your email when you’re writing, brainstorming, or otherwise doing brain-powered things.
  • Mute your cell phone, or leave it in another room.
  • Turn off every notification and pop-up that dares impose itself on your monitor.
  • Before you close up shop for the night, make your list of 2-3 absolute-must-do’s for tomorrow. Then, when you first start working the next day, get those things done before you work on anything else. (No more wasting time trying to figure out what to do with your day.)
There are tons of blog posts out there about productivity. Chances are, you’ve read a few and you know how to be more productive. But “knowing how” and “making yourself do” are two different things.
No more letting yourself off the hook. Buckle down and take charge — you’re the boss, after all!

Stop making excuses

Excuses, in my estimation, boil down to fear. It’s fear that pretends it’s logic, but usually it’s still just fear.
Here are a few common excuses, what the underlying fear tends to be, and how you can move past it:
I don’t know enough yet: fear of failure, fear of looking stupid
What all do you really need to know?
You need to know how to write an email, how to find a job to apply to or a site to pitch, and how to produce whatever you’ve promised.
Being a freelance blogger is not anywhere near as complicated as we like to make ourselves think it is when we’re looking for an excuse.
My website isn’t ready: fear of rejection, fear of failure
Your site is never going to be perfect, and even if you do get a perfect site (which doesn’t really exist), it’s just one WordPress update away from being broken anyway.
There’s no reason to let your website stop you from going for work. I’d bet actual green-paper money that there are very few people who’ve lost out on a gig because they didn’t have the perfect plugin on their site.
I don’t have enough time: fear of failure
Nobody has enough time for this. Some of us make time anyway. You get to choose how you spend your time. Need help? Read this.
My pitch isn’t ready: fear of rejection
If you think your pitch stinks, well… that’s kind of legit. But it’s only legit for the 30-60 minutes it takes you to come up with a better one.
With so many pitching resources available here and elsewhere, plus feedback available in the forum from people who are editors and know what makes a good pitch because they’ve read hundreds if not thousands of them, there’s absolutely no reason to let your perceived weak pitch stop you for very long.
Noticing a trend yet?
Our fears are pretty basic. We want to be accepted. We don’t want to fail. We want things to be easy so we don’t have to take risks. Risks are scary.
But here’s the thing: there will always be reasons not to do something. Sometimes these reasons will be really compelling.
Here’s the other thing: you’ve got to stop taking these excuses seriously if you’re really going to make some headway as a freelancer.
You already know enough. You’re already capable enough. You’re ready. You just need to do it. And trust me: it will get easier, the more you go for it.
Don’t let the fear win. Don’t! There’s too much at stake.

You get to take control

There are some things within your control.
You get to control how you spend a large portion of your time. You get to control who you will or won’t take on as a client. You get to control the distractions you choose to let in. You get to control your rates, and therefore how much money you’ll make.
This is your business. You get to control it.
Treat it right, and it will grow. Don’t, and you’ll keep floundering.
Remind yourself regularly to take your work seriously — more seriously than you’d take a regular job, even.
The more you’re willing to buckle down, cut the fat, and get to work, the better off you’ll be. Be ruthless — especially on yourself — and it’ll get easier as time goes on.
If you ever get stuck (and we all get stuck at some point), don’t just sit there. Reach out and get some help, fast, so you can get back on your way.
No one else will do it for you. So be ruthless and do it for yourself!

Resource: http://beafreelanceblogger.com/ruthless-blogging/


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Let me introduce myself. My name is Richard Nata. I am an author, novelist, blogger and ghost writer. My articles, including short stories have been published in magazines and newspapers since 1994. I have written a lot of books, both fiction and non-fiction. So I was a professional in the field of writing, both fiction and non-fiction.

I was born in Jakarta, August 17, 1968.  

In 1988, at the age of 20 years, I started working as an accounting staff. Age 24 years has occupied the position of Finance Manager. Age 26 years as a General Manager.

In 1994, my articles published in magazines and tabloids.

In 1997, I wrote a book entitled "Buku Pintar Mencari Kerja". This book is reprinted as much as 8 times. Through the book, the authors successfully helped tens of thousands of people get jobs at once successful in their careers. They were also successful when moving to work in other places.

In 1998, I started investing in shares on Bursa Efek Indonesia (Indonesia stock exchange). As a result of investing in the stock market then I can provide consulting services for companies that want to go public in Indonesia stock exchange.

more information :
1. IPO KAN PERUSAHAAN ANDA DI BEI, TRIK TERCEPAT MENJADIKAN ANDA SEORANG KONGLOMERAT. brand, ideas, story, style, my life: IPO KAN PERUSAHAAN ANDA DI BEI, TRIK TERCEPAT MENJADIKAN ANDA SEORANG KONGLOMERAT.
2. JASA KONSULTAN GO PUBLIC ( IPO ) DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA. 


BUKU PINTAR DAPAT KERJA GAJI TINGGI PINDAH KERJA GAJI SEMAKIN TINGGI made by retyping the book BEST SELLER of the author, entitled “Buku Pintar Mencari Kerja”. This ebook available on google play.

In 2015, I had the idea of a startup company where the readers can decide for themselves the next story. WASN'T THIS A GREAT IDEA? IF can be realized WILL BE WORTH billions USD. Because CAN PRODUCE FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS even tens of millions USD annually. 

In theory, in 10-20 years into the future, my startup income, amounting to hundreds of million USD annually can be obtained easily. AND IF FOLLOWED BY MANY COMPANIES IN THE WHOLE WORLD WILL THEN BE A NEW INDUSTRIAL worth trillions USD. 

To be honest. Currently I'm not having a lot of money. So I start marketing my startup with blogspot.

My STARTUP :


A story with millions of choices in it - looking investor like you.



Try to imagine this. When you're reading a story on the web or blog, you are given two choices. You can choose the next story based on your own choice. After selecting then you can continue reading the story. Shortly afterwards you will be presented back to the 2 other options. The next choice is up to you. Then you continue the story you are reading. After that you will be faced again with 2 choices. So onwards. The more stories you read so the more options you have taken.


If you feel curious then you can re-read the story by changing your selection. Then you will see a different story with the story that you have read previously. The question now is why is this so? Because the storyline will be varying according to your choice. 


I, as the author is planning to make tens of thousands of articles with millions of choices in it. With tens of thousands of articles then you like to see a show of your favorite series on TV for several years. The difference is while watching your favorite TV series, then you can not change the story. Meanwhile, if you read this story then you can alter the way the story according to your own choice.

You might say like this. Sounds like a book "choose your own adventure". Books I read when I was young.

Correctly. The idea is taken from there. But if you read through a book, the story is not so exciting. Due to the limited number of pages. When a child first you may already feel interesting. But if you re-read the book now then becomes no fun anymore because you don't get anything with the amount of 100-200 pages. 

Have you ever heard of game books?  When you were boy or girl, did you like reading game books? I think you've heard even happy to read it.

Gamebooks are sometimes informally called choose your own adventure books or CYOA which is also the name of the Choose Your Own Adventure series published byBantam BooksGamebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gamebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A gamebook is a work of fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making effective choices. The narrative branches along various paths through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages.
Lihat preview menurut Yahoo

Bantam Books with the Choose Your Own Adventure 

series has produced more than 250 million US 

dollars. While I offer you more powerful than the Choose 

Your Own Adventure. Because of what? Because the 

story that I made much more interesting than the stories 

created by the authors of Bantam Books. You will not get anything just to 100-200 pages. While the story that I created is made up of tens of thousands of articles with millions of choices in it.

For comparison are the books published with the theme "choose your own adventure" produces more than 250 million copies worldwide. If the average price of a book for 5 USD, the industry has produced more than 1.5 billion USD. But unfortunately this industry has been abandoned because the reader begins to feel bored. The last book was published entitled "The Gorillas of Uganda (prev." Search for the Mountain Gorillas ")". And this book was published in 2013.

Based on the above, then you are faced with two choices. Are you interested in reading my story is? Or you are not interested at all. The choice is in your hands.
If you are interested then spread widely disseminated this article to your family, friends, neighbors, and relatives. You can also distribute it on facebook, twitter, goggle +, or other social media that this article be viral in the world. By doing so it is a new entertainment industry has been created.

Its creator named Richard Nata.

The full articles that talks about this: 
  



WHY DO I NEED STARTUP FUNDS FROM INVESTORS? I NEED A LOT OF FUNDS FROM INVESTORS BECAUSE I HAVE TO LOOKING FOR EXPERT PROGRAMMERS(IT).BECAUSE THE DATA IS HANDLED IS VERY LARGE, IT MAY HAVE TO WEAR SOME PROGRAMMERS(IT).

I CAN NOT WEAR SOME FREELANCE PROGRAMMER BECAUSE THE DATA MUST BE MONITORED CONTINUOUSLY FROM VIRUSES, MALWARE, SPAM, AND OTHERS.

IN ADDITION FUNDS FROM INVESTORS IS ALSO USED TO BUY SERVERS WITH VERY LARGE CAPACITY. FUNDS ARE ALSO USED TO PAY EMPLOYEE SALARIES AND OPERATIONAL COSTS OF THE COMPANY.

FUNDS CAN ALSO BE USED FOR ADVERTISING AND OTHER MARKETING STRATEGIES.FUNDS CAN ALSO BE USED TO ADVERTISE MY STARTUP AND OTHER MARKETING STRATEGIES.

IF I GET A VERY LARGE FUND, THE PART OF THE FUNDS USED TO TRANSLATE THE STORY INTO VARIOUS LANGUAGES.With more and more languages, the more readers we get.
WITH MORE AND MORE READERS, THE MORE REVENUE WE GET. 

AS AN INVESTOR THEN YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FEEL ANXIOUS ABOUT YOUR FUNDS. BECAUSE YOUR FUNDS WILL NEVER BE LOST BECAUSE IN 3-5 YEARS YOU HAVE RETURNED THE FUNDS COUPLED WITH PROFIT.
THIS BUSINESS IS ONE AND THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD.

If we can make a good story, so that the readers will 

come again and again for further reading the story then 

our earnings will continue to grow and will never 

diminish. This is due to new readers who continued  to 

arrive, while long remained loyal readers become our 

customers.

So that the number of our readers will continue to 

multiply over time. With the increasing number of loyal 

readership then automatically the amount of income we 

will also grow larger every year. The same thing 

happened in yahoo, google, facebook, twitter, linkedin, 

and others when they still startup.

Deuteronomy {28:13} And the LORD shall make thee the 

head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and 

thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them: ]

Try to imagine this. If I give a very unique story. It was the first time in the world. But the world already know this story even liked it. Because the world love the game books. While the story that I made is the development of game books.
Do you Believe if I dare say if I will succeed because my story will be famous all over the world as Harry Potter?
I believe it. Not because I was the author of the story, but because of the story that I made is unique and the only one in the world. 
Income from my startup :
1. Ads. With millions of unique visitors, the price of the ads will be expensive.
2. Affiliate marketing. In addition to advertising, we are also able to put up some banner from affiliate marketing.
3. Contribution of the readers. If you have a million readers and every reader to pay one US dollar per year then you will get the income of one million US dollars per year. 
If you have a million readers and every reader to pay one US dollar per month then you will get as much revenue twelve million US dollars per year.
4. Books and Comics. After getting hundreds of thousands to the millions of readers of the story will be made in books and the form of a picture story (comics).
5. Movies. If we have a good story with millions of readers then quickly we will be offered to make a film based on the story.
6. Merchandise related to characters. After the movies there will be made an offer for the sale of goods related to the characters.
7. Sales. With millions of email that we have collected from our readers so we can sell anything to them.
    Each income (1-7) worth millions to tens of millions of US dollars. 
    Because each income (1-7) worth millions to tens of millions of US dollars. Then in 10-20 years into the future, AI will be earning hundreds of million USD annually.
So how long do you think my story that I made could gather a thousand readers? Ten thousand readers? One hundred thousand readers? A million readers? Five million readers? Ten million readers? More than ten million readers?
But to get all of it of course takes time, can not be instant. In addition, it takes hard work, big funds and placement of the right people in the right positions.
By advertising, viral marketing, strong marketing strategies and SEO then a million readers can be done in less than a year. Ten million readers can be done in two to three years.
This is the marketing strategy of my startup.
When hundreds of thousands or millions of readers already liked my story then they have to pay to enjoy the story that I made.
If you are a visionary then you will think like this.
With the help of my great name in the world of business, my expertise in marketing, advertising, marketing by mouth, viral marketing, then collecting a million readers to ten million readers will be easy to obtain. Is not that right?
The question now is what if people like my story as they like Harry Potter? You will get tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of email addresses from readers. With that much email, we can sell anything to the readers.
Since April 2013, Wikipedia has around 26 million articles in 285 languages are written by 39 million registered users and a variety of anonymous people who are not known from other parts of the world.  Web ranked by Alexa, Wikipedia is a famous website number 6 which has been visited by 12% of all Internet users with 80 million visitors every month and it is only from the calculation of America.

resource : http://www.tahupedia.com/content/show/136/Sejarah-dan-Asal-Mula-Wikipedia

If no Wikipedia then need hundreds of thousands to millions of books required to make 26 million articles in 285 languages into books.

With the Wikipedia then people started to leave to read a book or books to seek knowledge about a subject or many subjects.

The same thing will happen. Read a story in a book or books to be abandoned. Read a story with millions of choices on the web or blog is far more interesting than reading a book or books. 

So what happens next? In 10-20 years ahead then read a story in a book to be abandoned. Otherwise my startup will grow and continue to develop into a new entertainment industry.

New entertainment industry, where I was a forerunner startup will continue to evolve. 
Therefore, in 10-20 years into the future, my startup will be earning hundreds of million USD annually.

So do not delay. Invest your money immediately to my startup. Take A Look. There are so many advantages if you want to invest in my startup.
WHY YOU SHOULD INVEST YOUR MONEY RIGHT NOW? .
IF YOU INVEST YOUR FUNDS IN ONE, TWO OR THREE YEARS INTO THE FUTURE, YOU MAY BE TOO LATE.
BECAUSE IN 1-3 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE THEN I'VE GOT THE FUNDS. THE FUNDS CAN COME FROM SOME INVESTORS, LOANS FROM BANKS OR FROM ADVERTISEMENTS POSTED ON MY BLOG.

IF I'VE GOT A LARGE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THEN I'VE NO NEED OF YOUR FUNDS. SO INVEST NOW OR NOT AT ALL.

My BLOG started to be written January 11, 2015. TODAY, MAY 30, 2015, THE NUMBER OF CLICKS HAS REACHED 56,750. SO FAR SO GOOD.

If I get big funds from investors then with a quick story that I wrote will spread throughout the world.

So I got acceleration because I can put ads in a large variety of media such as Google AdWords, Facebook, and others. I also can perform a variety of other marketing strategies.
If I do not get funding from investors then my story would still spread throughout the world. But with a longer time, Slow but sure.

So either I get funding from investors or not, the story that I wrote will remain spread throughout the world. Ha ... 7x

So don't worry, be happy.

My advice to you is you should think whether the data that I have provided to you makes sense or not .
If my data reasonable then immediately invest your funds as soon as possible.

Then we discuss how we plan further cooperation.

Thank you.
Lord Jesus bless you.
Amen
P.S. The offer letter I gave also to the hedge funds and 

venture capital and other major companies 

in the entire 

world. So who is fast then he will get it.


P.P.S. In addition, there is one more thing I 

want to tell you. If a story can generate tens 

of millions of US dollars, then what if made 


many stories? Then why do not you make 2, 3 or many stories? You will get hundreds of million USD annually. 

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