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Why You Need To Transition To Online Writing
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11-17-2007 10:07 PM
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From Freelance Switch, Leo Babauta gives his recommendations for making the switch to online writing.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/408c3acd-ed4e-48c0-a870-79fb91a36d8a/CE0D538A-32FD-4D85-A52A-B8B9738344C7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/" href="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/" style="font-size: 11px;">freelanceswitch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/">A year ago, I wrote exclusively for print publications.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/">However, today, I write exclusively for online publications.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/">Why did I make the transition? A number of reasons, actually:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>Writing for blogs and websites is less work per article.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>It’s much more flexible.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>It pays more per hour.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>I set my own topics.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>The people I work with are exciting.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>Everything is done online. </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><P>If these reasons are compelling enough to prompt you to want to make the transition to online writing, you’ll probably be asking yourself how to go about it.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><P>Here’s the plan I recommend:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>Target a few blogs and make contact.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>Start writing a few posts a week, and drop some print work.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>Slowly get out of your print commitments.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><STRONG>Enjoy. </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://freelanceswitch.com/start/how-and-why-you-should-transition-to-online-freelancing/"><P>It’s not difficult, but if you follow my plan, don’t expect the transition to be instantaneous. I made a deliberately gradual transition, over the period of a few months, and I recommend a similar process.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CE0D538A-32FD-4D85-A52A-B8B9738344C7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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