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5 Tips For Bloggers
I started blogging for personal reasons: to keep in touch with long distant friends and relatives. Then I added a Q&A blog (http://thedabblingmum.blogspot.com) for my magazine (http://thedabblingmum.com) to host interviews I conduct with authors and entrepreneurs. Now I get paid to ghostwrite for blogs and you can too!
Tip #1
Understand the industry you want to be paid to blog for.
Let�s assume you enjoy health and nutrition and have read up on this topic for years. In fact, you know many facts and �insider secrets� by heart and often share this information with friends, relatives, and strangers in your local health food store. That�s a topic you could easily be paid to write about. Because of your vast knowledge, the posts will come easy and when they don�t you�re magazine subscriptions will offer plenty of food for thought.
Tip #2
Never accept a non-compete contract.
As a blog writer,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you will make your living writing for various blogs. A non-compete clause will prevent you from writing about the same topic on another blog and that�s not good for business.
As a health and nutrition specialist, you may write for a vegetarian blog, a holistic treatment blog, a vitamin company�s blog, and even a diet blog. There�s no competition there, right? And no �conflict of interest�, correct? The non-compete clause won�t even apply.
But what if you�re asked to write for another vegetarian blog,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]? That�s when the non-compete clause kicks in and prevents you from earning a better living. Is there really a conflict of interest? Not if you don�t post the same information on both blogs. You can write for five different vegetarian blogs and still not show a conflict of interest. It�s all about choosing a different angle on the same idea and writing about it.
Tip #3
Never rely on revenue sharing as your sole source of income.
You�re job as a blog writer is to write about topics relevant to the blog�s theme and interact with commenters. Your job isn�t to market and advertise the blog. That�s the company�s job. If the company isn�t pulling its weight, the ad revenue will not exist and if the ad revenue doesn�t exist, neither does your salary. It�s best to be paid a flat fee, but if the company you truly want to work for only pays in ad revenue, negotiate a monthly stipend plus a percentage of the ad revenues.
If you�re going to get paid based on ad revenue or clicks, and you�re job is to also promote and market the blog, you should start your own blog. That way, you get to keep all the income you earn and don�t have to share the revenues with a company who isn�t doing anything to help promote the blog�aside from hosting (which you can get for as little as $7 a month and free if you stick to blog networks.)
Tip #4
Get paid in advance.
Negotiate a contract to get paid at the beginning of the month for that month�s blogging. That way, you will never be out money for a project you�ve completed. And remember, if the company can pay the web host, the electricity bill,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the web designer, the internet provider, and so forth, the company can afford to pay you!
Tip #5
When writers� block hits, to a search online.
Sometimes bloggers get what�s known as �writers� block�. Writers� block simply means you�ve run out of ideas to write about. It happens to the best of us, but it doesn�t have to hurt your career as a blogger for hire. When writers� block occurs, get online and search for blogs, websites, and forums related to your blog�s topic. After a half hour to an hour of reading,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you�ll have plenty of ideas to write about.

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