Going in a different direction

As you all know six months ago I had to quit my outside job due to babysitter issues.  Since then I have been trying to earn a little extra income off the Internet.  I have tried paid blogging and freelance writing.  Out of the two, I definitely preferred the paid blogging.  It paid better and I had so much fun doing it.  But, I’m thinking that I need to go in a different direction now.  Because of the latest Google update that took away all my page rank for all my blogs, I haven’t been able to make hardly any income at all through paid blogging so I have decided that I may need to look back into freelance writing.

So, I have a question for all you freelance writers out there.  How do you find good paying freelance writing jobs that are legit??  I have searched a lot of sites over the past year and most of the sites that I have discovered offer very little pay for the type of work required or they are just a scam to make people shell out their valuable money.  I’m sure there are some legitimate sites out there, but honestly guys I am unsure as where to find them.

So if you could give me a little nudge in the right direction I would be so grateful and maybe, just maybe, I can’t start earning a living again to help out with household expenses and things that my kids would like to have.

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This entry was posted on Friday, December 7th, 2007 at 2:02 pm and is filed under Blogging, Internet, Work. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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3 Responses to “Going in a different direction”

  1. no imageLisa (Who am I?) Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 2:59 pm

    Honestly, a lot of luck. The guy I am doing freelance for right now I met at Blogworld.

    I also lucked into most of my other freelance work too. Also, check this out:

    http://aboutfreelancewriting.com/jobs/currentjobs.htm

    I have picked up some work from there.

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  2. no imagePete Rowney (Who am I?) Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 3:19 pm

    Just a suggestion; “…I haven’t been able to make hardly any income…” Maybe you could start by dealing with bad, bad grammatical issues like this one.

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  3. no imageRyan (Who am I?) Says:
    December 7th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

    Paid Blogging isn’t as profitable right now, but I think it will rebound. Also if you are good with other programs such as AdSense, Amazon affiliates, etc, etc you can do very well. A lot of it is pure luck into getting work, but some of it is skill.

    I have found http://www.wahm.com/forum/ to be a useful site for all things money making around the internet. I blog about paid blogging, and am happy to keep doing it. Good luck with your freelancing work and Happy Holidays!

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