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  1. How to Earn Top Dollar Working as a Freelance Blogger

    How to Earn Top Dollar Working as a Freelance Blogger

    Tutorial • Beginner

    I am a freelance blogger and an online copywriter. Most people look at me in amazement when I tell them that. Do you mean you can actually make money...

  2. How to Become a Freelance Blog Writer

    How to Become a Freelance Blog Writer

    Tutorial • Beginner

    For years now, I've done freelance writing for newspapers and magazines as a way to make side income, supplementing my full-time job. But this year, I've...

  3. Freelance Blogging: How to Exploit a Key Factor that is Central to Your Success

    Freelance Blogging: How to Exploit a Key Factor that is Central to Your Success

    Tutorial • Beginner

    They say content is king. That may be true to an extent, but if I have learned anything so far in my freelance blogging career, it is that speed (in part)...

  4. The Starving Writer’s Quick Guide to Finding Good-Paying Freelance Blogger Gigs

    The Starving Writer’s Quick Guide to Finding Good-Paying Freelance Blogger Gigs

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Are you sick of seeing job ads for blogging that only offer $20 a post or less? Scanning the online job boards, you might think there are no good-paying...

  5. The 15-Step Freelance Writers' Guide to Writing for Magazines

    The 15-Step Freelance Writers' Guide to Writing for Magazines

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Do you have this dream? You go down to your nearest big newsstand one day and check out all those big, glossy magazines. You flip one of your favorites...

  6. 25+ Professional Resources for Getting Started as a Freelance Editor

    25+ Professional Resources for Getting Started as a Freelance Editor

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Launching into a career as a freelance editor is relatively easy. Unlike our web and graphic design colleagues, editors can start working on their own...

  7. The Ultimate Design Brief

    The Ultimate Design Brief

    Tutorial • Beginner

    A few times a month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of FreelanceSwitch. This article by Shaun Crowley was first...

  8. 7 Skill-Perfecting Tips for Non-Native English Writers

    7 Skill-Perfecting Tips for Non-Native English Writers

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Internet and the English language brought people with common interests together from all around the globe, and blogging earned its big slice in launching...

  9. Essential Steps to Submitting an Article to a Magazine

    Essential Steps to Submitting an Article to a Magazine

    Tutorial • Beginner

    If you're looking to be a freelance writer, your bread and butter will likely be submitting articles to magazines. And while the big names in the business...

  10. The Sexy Art of Writing Headlines That Kill

    The Sexy Art of Writing Headlines That Kill

    Tutorial • Beginner

    If you've written for a print publication, you've had the bittersweet experience of submitting a story and having your headline written for you. It's...

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