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What to Do When Your Freelance Blogging Career Is Going Nowhere

You got started. Found a few clients.

Remember how it felt at first? The world was yours, the sky was blue, the good life was just around the corner…

Then what happened?

Well, kinda nothing. You’re still doing the same kind of work for the same kind of pay.

And let’s be honest, that fact makes you cringe a little. It’s downrightembarrassing. Your family and friends already had doubts about your career choice — you don’t want to prove them right by admitting you’ve failed to make any progress.

So you keep running on that hamster wheel, going nowhere fast.

Problem with the hamster wheel tactic is, it doesn’t work. As long as you’re stuck in the wheel, you have to keep running just to stay upright. It’s exhausting. And you know sooner or later you’ll slip and fall.

What are you going to do?

Give up and cry?

Go back to a nice, safe job in a filing cabinet somewhere?

Hell, no. 

Here’s how to break out of the hamster cycle and get your freelance blogging career in gear.

Step 1: Analyse your position

One reason you’re not going anywhere is that you’ve been stuck in your hamster wheel long enough to forget which way is up.

You don’t really know where you stand right now. It’s like trying to get directions from Google without entering a starting point — you can’t plan a route from A to B if you’re not sure where A is.

Look at what you’re working on for your current clients. Look at what marketing you do. Look at your writing habits. Then write out a short description of your current situation.

If you need a prompt to get you started, try filling in these statements:

I currently have ___ regular clients and work on roughly ___ one-off projects per month.

I write an average of ___ words per week for paying clients. The writing work takes me about ___ hours each week, plus I spend about ___ hours communicating with my clients and ___ hours looking for new gigs.

My income per month is ___ dollars and my expenses add up to about ___ dollars per month.

I typically get paid: in full in advance /a deposit in advance / on delivery / within 7 days / within 30 days / on publication / late / if I’m lucky. [Delete as appropriate.]

My best client is ____________. I write ____ words for them per week and they pay me ___ per word. Aside from the money, I like working with them because ______________________. I got this client by ___________________.

My worst client is __________. I write ____ words for them per week and they pay me ___ per word. Aside from the pay, I dislike working with them because ______________________. I got this client by ___________________.

The most lucrative topic I write on is _________________ and the topic I earn the least from is _______________.

The 3 things I do most regularly to look for new gigs are _________________, _______________ and _________________. Things I only do occasionally to look for new gigs include ____________, _____________ and _________________.

The thing that most often works to get me new gigs is ______________________________.

Things I’ve tried that never brought me any gigs at all include _______________, ________________ and _______________. I think the reason those tactics didn’t work is _________________, _________________ and __________________, respectivel

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http://beafreelanceblogger.com/