Monday, October 29, 2007

Post #36: 40 Days to a Successful Freelance Writing Career

PUBLISHER NOTE: This series was started to answer questions from seminar attendees about what was going to be taught at the Freelance Writing Seminar. Details. I entitled these posts "40 Days to a Successful Freelance Writing Career".

To start at the beginning of the "40 Days" series, click here. And, welcome to the blog. Now, on to today’s post . . .

Freelance Writers: How to Determine When to Send a Rate Quote Requested by Potential Clients

In Friday’s post, I talked about how to handle the “How much do you charge?” question from clients. Novelist Misti Sandefur sent in the following in response to that post:

Question
If you could do another post about what you should say in your proposal, and even include an example of a proposal, that would be great (I learn best from seeing examples).

Finally, would you do this same thing when responding to a writing gig where they asked you to send a quote with your response? For example, there are many projects posted on Craigslist that ask you to send clips/samples, your resume and your quote.”
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2 comments:

Misti Sandefur, Christian author/freelance writer said...

Thank you for addressing my questions. I appreciate it very much and found your advice to be very helpful. I'm looking forward to the next post, where you'll address my first question. :)

Oh, I though you may also like to know you misspelled my name twice in the post. It's no big deal, we all make mistakes, but I though you may want to know in case you overlooked it. ;)

Yuwanda Black said...

Sorry Misti for misspelling your name. I corrected it.

And, the answer to your second question was osted today.

Thanks for giving me such good stuff to write about.

Continued success with your novels.

Best,
Yuwanda