Ed Earns

I’m getting the hang of writing sales articles in my freelance job. I like this better because the words flow more freely as opposed to being more informational. I can practice my being more of a marketer whenever I put myself as if I’m part of my client’s company.

Writing a 700-word article which shows gives an overview of the company and what they do is simpler for me as it’s all sales talk and promoting the good things about the product and relating it to the audience is less stressful. When you create an informative article, you have to research on facts and analyze data based on reports.

As opposed to persuasive reviews, I can be more playful with my choice of words and it just depends on me on how I promote the product according to the tone of the company which is great.

What I like as well is that the company where I’m currently doing some part-time work is that it caters to an assortment of clients. Hence, the topics are diverse and I my mind doesn’t get exhausted easily because of repeating the same words over and over again because of having the same topic always.

I have two pending articles over the weekend so I’m not as pressured as before.

I’m done with a freelance application requirement which I was tasked to do in order to see where my Wordpress skills are at. There were a bunch of questions I had to answer so I had to extract whatever brain juice I had left in order to say something sensible.

This is the site of the questions and the product:

freelancetest.wordpress.com

This was a weird process for hiring freelancers as usually, employers would only conduct interviews over Skype or thru email. Nevertheless, I don’t make the rules and I still need another job so we’ll see the outcome of this.

I’ve had my fair share of taxing and stressful jobs that require me to stay up late in the night in order to finish pending tasks as well as meet deadlines. In the process, I sometimes can’t seem to work because of the stress that comes with thinking about the deliverable jobs on a daily basis which is just too much in most times.

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How much does a 500-word article cost? This question has been ringing and wringing in my head for awhile now.

These days, I have been writing articles for a client that I’m catering to in my freelance job. I am tasked to write 500 to 700-word informational and persuasive articles with certain keywords and key phrases inserted in the write-up. After I finish the whole article, I send it to them. Somehow my client is happy.

Initially, I wrote informative articles that would pass Ezine Article, Buzzle, Isnare and other article submission directories.

I was given feedback my my employer that since they are a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) company whose projects deal more with selling their customer’s products, I was advised to change the tone to have a little more sales-talk-like approach. Luckily, after I wrote the next article, they were very much satisfied with the output.

I get paid through PayPal after I am done with the batch for the week. Somehow it makes me wonder: How much should an employee be paid for writing articles?

I get confused at time because I do not really know how much is the rate for writing an article. It overall depends on the quality of the work and other factors.

But let’s just say that the quality is more than satisfactory, should I charge more? As of the moment, the range is around $1 for every 100 words. It seems pretty much fair to me knowing that for a 500 word article, I can get $5.

There are other employers in the freelance world that pay freelancers a cheap price – I remember when I was starting out in Odesk, I got paid $10 for 15 350-word informative articles about health topics. That’s about 60 cents per article! I was still new in oDesk then and although the articles were of good quality, I felt that I shortchanged myself. That is usually the trend in freelance sites especially when you’re still a beginner and you rely on good feedback. I even heard somebody tell me that sometimes you even have to work without getting paid just to get a feedback!

Anyway, my employer sometimes asks me if it’s already suitable for me to get paid $1 for 100 words. But I can’t really tell if it’s already enough or not. For now, I’m still building a relationship with them.

What do you think? How much should you get for writing articles?

Keep the SocialSpark entries coming!

Been waiting for good opportunities for writing sponsored reviews online and like I’m always happy with, SocialSpark.com has been giving me a couple of tasks to write  about.

With 5 blogs in tow, I am able to diversify my sites in order to accommodate different categories which in turn, allows me to take written reviews here and there. Although there are a lot more paid posts that I’m not really qualified, I have enough already to keep me going. 

I’m looking for other jobs again. Jobs that don’t require me to go full time as I have a lot of things outside my work that I have to cater to. I need to use the money that I’ll be earning for planned trips around and abroad. I’m time-bound and I need to act fast before all my resources get depleted.

I’m still glad that even if I don’t have a lot of freelance tasks, I still have the one area in blogging where I’m earning a decent amount of money; and that is through SocialSpark. Somehow, PayPerPost.com has gone down the drain — or maybe I’m just not qualified for sponsored opportunities yet. But now, I’m trying to try onlinejobs.ph instead of oDesk as it’s more inline with my country.

So I was let go. Actually they’re still keeping me for freelance tasks that need immediate inputs. My freelance job has stopped momentarily and apparently, I was able to breathe a little now knowing that I’m not as pressured as before.

I feel that a cloud has been cleared off from my head and although I’ll be a bit broke the succeeding days, I now have some hold on what I plan to do in the next couple of months. I won’t have to worry about looking for more time in order to rest.

Having 2 full-time jobs was very taxing on my part. That’s 80 hours a week and I was wondering where I had to look for sleep. I’m still under them, but I’m less hassled with the tasks.

Every once in awhile, we all need a break. I’ve been focusing too much on freelance work and other online jobs that past few months that I forgot to really take a good rest from all the work that’s been given to me.

For now, I’m a bit stagnant as to where I stand since I’ve no job and I’m just relying on blog opportunities (though not that much) to help me gain some extra income online.

This is a good chance for me because even the thought of having too much work is stressing me out and right now, I have to concentrate on other important matters such as finishing my education and finally getting some well-deserved sleeps. I’ve been too hyperactive that I forgot to take time and smell whatever’s left in the kitchen fridge.

Yes, I’m desperate these times in looking for good jobs that also pay well. I need to save up and earn more in order to have some budget needed to be allocated for trips that will occur by the second half of the year which started three days ago. Bummer.

The jobs that I have isn’t enough and I have a lot of expenses since we just transferred to a new place.

Now, I’m trying to scout for some good finds online; affiliate programs and such if there are some that looks promising. What I don’t like is if these programs are scams in disguise as I don’t want to invest a lot of money on something that will turn to air in the end.

Now, I’ll probably stick with other freelance jobs, I’ll probably go active again on Odesk.com or apply in Freelancer.com.

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