Web Writing Is Booming - Get Your Share Of The Loot - Issue 37
June 26th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
Want to make great money as a Web writer? Web writing is booming. While this is great for writers, some clients have never hired a writer before, so you need to take the lead.
In this latest issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, discover how you can avoid hassles when you write for the Web.
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This issue includes:
* Editorial: Web Writing Is Booming - Get Your Share Of The Loot
* Article: Web Writing - Top Five Rules To Ensure You Write And Get Paid
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[Editorial] Web Writing Is Booming - Get Your Share Of The Loot
This week’s issue is aimed at Web writers. More and more writers are making the move to the Web, and I hope you’re doing that too. Whether you’re writing for magazines, or are working on books, the Web is becoming vital to every publisher’s survival (because advertising dollars are moving online) : and that means it’s vital for writers’ survival, too.
Get Acquainted With The Web Now - It’s Vital
Any effort you make in getting to know the Web and getting started in Web writing will pay off big, this year, next year and forever after. At the moment, of course, Web writing is booming.
Every seasoned Web writer I know is turning away projects - there just aren’t enough hours in the day. New writers are discovering writing nirvana: no experience necessary, they’re writing and being paid very well, to learn while they earn.
However, as you might expect, there are challenges for new Web writers to overcome too - the biggest challenge is to ensure that they’re paid for every Web writing job. In this week’s article, “Web Writing: Top Five Rules To Ensure You Write And Get Paid” you’ll find out how to avoid Web writing hassles.
Affectionately,
P.S. My ebook Writing For The Web gets you started in Web writing. It includes a writing services agreement, and samples of Web writing.
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* Article: Web Writing - Top Five Rules To Ensure You Write And Get Paid
(c) 2007. Angela Booth
Web writing is booming. With millions of Web sites online and billions of pages on those sites, the online environment is becoming highly competitive for all businesses.
To gain visibility, businesses are realizing that they need more content on their sites, so the demand for Web writers is huge, and it’s growing every day. If you’re a competent writer, unless you’re hiding out somewhere, you’re swamped with offers of work.
Although the Web writing boom is great for writers, there are challenges too. The biggest challenge is ensuring that you get paid for your writing, because many of your clients have never worked with a professional writer before. This puts the onus on you to provide writing services agreements, project descriptions, and invoices.
Most people who hire you are honest; some are not. Sometimes there’s a breakdown in clear communication: you’re not clear on what your client requires, because the client hasn’t explained it adequately, or the client misunderstands what you’re providing.
Let’s look at five rules to ensure that you are paid for your Web writing.
1. Always Use A Writing Services Agreement
An agreement is a contract. This spells out in detail exactly what you will do for the client, and when and how you will be paid. It also gives a timeline. An agreement is vital, and it protects both you and your client. You must provide your own agreement - look online for agreement templates.
2. Don’t Write Free Samples
Writing for free, when it’s for self-promotion, is sensible. Many writers write “for free”. I write articles and blogs, which are nominally “free”, but I get paid in other ways. Since they’re promotional tools, and thus free advertising, I’m happy to do it. However, I don’t write for anyone else for free, and certainly not for businesses.
Unless you’re careful, and get paid up-front (see Rule # 5), you’ll end up writing for free. For example, currently there’s an “e-testing” scam extant online. A scammer goes shopping for writers, and asks those writers to write an article, a chapter, a page etc as a sample, so he can “assess the writers’ ability”. Obviously, if writers go ahead and do it, the scammer gets the work done for free.
Please don’t fall for this scam. Your motto should be: “if it’s free, it’s for me.”
3. Get Your Client’s Complete Contact Details
Make sure you get your client’s complete contact details. This makes it easier to follow up slow payers.
Then, before you send an agreement, enter his name and the name of his company into Google: you’ll often be amazed at what a simple search reveals. If there’s no mention of the client or his company in Google, ask for references - don’t work with people who are unknown online. People can and do make outrageous claims - check them out.
4. Create Your Own Project Description
A client brief (that is, a description of the writing job) may be a single sentence, or 500 words. You should always write the brief in your own words, and include your own project description in your quote for the project. Projects tend to morph as you work on them. If you don’t write a clear project description, you can end up working at much less than your usual hourly rate. (Don’t ask me how I know this. 
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Ask enough questions so that you know exactly what the scope of the project is, then write it in your own words.
5. Get A Retainer Up Front
Don’t start writing without a retainer - that is, an up-front payment, usually half or a third of the full payment. The retainer is the client’s show of good faith. You have your own Web site, so you’re known online. You have no idea who the client is, what he tells you may or may not be true.
Include these words in your agreement: “The copyright passes to you on payment in full” - this means that until you’re paid everything you’re owed, you own the copyright to the work.
Follow these five rules, and you’ll be paid well for your Web writing skills.
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