Blog - Use Your Blog to Get Blog Jobs

If you enjoy writing, blogging is great fun. You can even turn your love of blogging into a great career. Blogging is a great "work from home" opportunity - you work the hours you please, you work from home, and you're your own boss.

Blog jobs are springing up everywhere like mushrooms after rain. In this article, you'll discover five easy tips which will help you to land all the blog jobs you want.

Here are the tips.

1. Focus on your own blog first - build your name and reputation

Your own blog is not only your "portfolio" showing your blogging skills and expertise, it's also a way to get known. Please don't just aim to be a generic blogger or writer. In blogging, you need to build your name and reputation. Once people know who you are, you can charge the rates you want.

Don't forget to let people know you're available for blog jobs on your blog. Create a "Hire me" page.

2. Use the blog job boards with caution - the best jobs aren't advertised

Once your blog's established, check out the blog job boards. However, use them with caution. Check out job posters on Google. If you can't find anything on them - be very wary.

3. Write guest posts - for free - on other blogs to get known

Writing for free - to get known - is the key to being paid well to blog. Remember, you need to get away from the generic "blogger" tag as soon as possible. Spread your name and writing skills around. You're laying the foundations of a great career.

4. ASK! Propose a blog to sites which don't have one

Here's a big tip. When you see a site which doesn't have a blog, but which would benefit from one, propose a blog. Your proposal can be just a short note to the site's contact email address, or it can be a full-blown business proposal.

I suggest a message of a couple of hundred words for your proposals - you'll be amazed at the results you can get. One blogger is now happily blogging for a large corporation, both publicly, and privately, for the company's internal blogs. He's making three times his previous salary.

5. Use the free classifieds sites to spread your name

The benefit of the free classifieds site is that they're free, and that they spread your name far and wide - remember, the more you get known, the more blog jobs you'll get, and the more you'll be paid.

Enjoy blogging: you can turn it into a fantastic career when you know how to get blog jobs.

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