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Guest post by Bamidele Ojo
For over four years, I worked as a content writer on freelance marketplaces… writing for peanuts.
Things changed, however, when I came across detailed information about how to land clients with cold pitching.
Finding clients through freelance marketplaces is not bad, as long as you earn decent rates to justify your hard work.
When you’re paid only peanuts, however, it becomes a form of slavery.
While there are countless ways to get clients as a freelance writer, cold pitching is undoubtedly one of the easiest and fastest; as part of a cold pitching experiment I did sometime ago, I was able to land a new client that instantly awarded me a $625 writing gig in 2 hours and $5,025 in freelance writing work within a few months.
What was the exact pitch I sent?
Why was my pitch effective?
This article answers both questions and gives you 12 different cold pitch templates you can use to get results during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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It doesn’t really matter whether you want to get paid to write reviews, lists, or tutorials, there is an abundance of blogs and websites that pay writers who can give them high quality content and follow guidelines.
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By Waliyulah Olayide
Imagine you opened a shopping mall. The name and popularity of your mall have attracted potential buyers.
Entering your mall, you knew a visiting prospect would be persuaded to buy a thing or two.
Alas, your entrance is waterlogged with the rain that fell the other day!
What will a potential buyer do?
Even if your mall had the best stock in town, it won’t matter. A potential customer, disgusted, will likely pretend that they forgot something in the car, turn back and leave your mall — for good.
Your article is like that. As a freelancer, business owner or an entrepreneur who has a great message to pass to your audience.
You can’t afford to begin your article poorly.
While there has been a general lack of data on the impact of COVID-19 for writers, it is clear that freelance writers have been seriously affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Take the airline industry as an example:
Available data shows that four of the five biggest inflight magazines have shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
If major magazines like Delta Sky and Southwest, reputed for paying writers a minimum of $1 per word, have had to shut down due to COVID-19, you can only imagine what it means for smaller players.
The impact of COVID-19 extends beyond just the airline industry; the travel, hospitality, education, tech, transportation, and real estate industry are just a few of the major industries affected — and many of the magazines and publications that pay writers in these niches have had to put things on hold due to the pandemic.
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