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“Free Isn’t Always A Four-Letter Word”

Filed under Career Exploration, Job Hunting, On the Job
Posted by Libraries, December 06, 2005
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Ellen Notbohm, The Writer, 119.1 (Jan 2006): 45.

“A Successful Freelancer Argues That Writing For Free Sometimes Makes Good Business Sense And Helps Beginners Gain Coveted Clips”

Starting out as a freelance writer can feel like a catch-22 situation: you can’t get published until you have clips, and you can’t get clips until you’ve been published. In this article, Ellen Notbohm, whose income from writing is in the five figures, offers several reasons to write for free. Notbohm suggests that you need to invest in your writing career the same way you would build a business, and that “giving away samples of a new product is a prevailing business tactic.”

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