Adventures in Freelancing

I bought an eBook today by another online freelance writer. The book was $37 (yeah, I know, $37???!!). It was pretty good. I think most of the info in the book I knew already, but there were some things that I hadn’t thought of or knew in the book.

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One of the topics covered in the book was deciding whether to be a niche writer or a generalist writer.  This was an important topic for me. So far, I’ve been a generalistfor a lot of reasons.

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1. I didn’t know if (or what) I really wanted to specialize in.

2. I didn’t know what kind of demand there was for different niches.

3. I like to do many different things and learn about different subjects and being a generalist offers the perfect opportunity to do that.

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The problem with being a generalist, though, is that you make less money. You make less money because you have to spend more time researching and because you won’t be paid the premium price of an expert.

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So I’ve decided to specialize. I’m specializing in finance and insurance. I’ve updated my website to show that I’m all specialized out. I’m charging a pretty hefty price for my specialty work and a cheaper price for a general writing that comes through.

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I’m really not sure how this is going to go. I’ll keep you posted.

First, I want to thank all of you for traveling over to Freelance Writerville this week and posting on the forums.  It means so much to me that you would help out with this time sucking endeavor of mine. A client gave me a donation to help me out with the costs of buying content and pictures, good writers have been writing on the cheap for me, and people have been posting in the little forum. I really, really appreciate it. I hope you all get something out of the page as it grows.

I made a huge mistake this week. Probably my worst mistake ever. This may cost me a steady client. I’m not going to post it today, I’ll post it here tomorrow.

Tonight, I have to try and get some sleep. I’m exhausted and emotional.

Well, Freelance Writerville has been officially released and it’s getting some good feedback. I could sure use some more content though. I’m paying for blog posts submitted by other writers- visit the Submissions page on Freelance Writerville for details.