For Freelancers

If you are selling your work and managing the business

Read these in order. Each builds on the last. Roughly 20 minutes of reading in total.

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So You Want to Be a Journalist

Simon Townsend's 10 Rules for Freelance Journalists

Simon Townsend 's 10 Rules for being a productive freelance journalist and staying successful Rule 1: Manage your fear of rejection The No. 1 fear of all...
2

Selling Your Work

How to Sell Your Article: Fast and Correctly

How to sell your article - fast and correctly I recommend strongly against 'query letters'. I hate them, as do all editors. You 'query' if an editor is...
3

Selling Your Work

Where to Pitch: Australian Publications That Commission Freelance Work

Simon's advice to freelancers started with one question: do you know who you are sending this to? Most pitches that failed, in his view, failed because the...
4

Selling Your Work

The Freelancer's Business Guide

A freelance journalist is running a business. It is a very small business, usually a one-person business, often not incorporated, but it is a business. If you...
5

Selling Your Work

What Should You Get Paid?

There is no fixed rate for freelance journalism in Australia. What you get paid depends on who commissioned you, how desperate they are, how desperate you are...
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Selling Your Work

Freelance Life: The Loneliness and the Money

Is freelancing lonely? Is the money bad? Yes and no. Every profession in the world - rock star, accountant, brain surgeon, actor, garbage collector or...