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As blogging becomes mainstream, many companies want to add a blog to their Web site. Most will never get to the point of either creating a blog themselves, or of hiring a professional blogger. They’re just too busy - the idea of a blog gets tossed into the too-hard-and-too-complicated basket.
This is where you come in.
If you want to blog for others, you can certainly watch the blog-jobs sites and apply for blogging gigs. However, as with the best jobs, the best blogging gigs aren’t advertised. So it’s up to you to get in touch with companies, and offer your blogging services via a proposal.
Creating proposals - a proposal is just a letter
Ideally, you’ll have a connection with a company to which you make a proposal. If you don’t, the connection can be simple, merely that you’re knowledgeable in their field, have seen their site, and realize that a blog would be a great addition to their site.
BTW - to make contacts with companies which need blogs, use one of the many social networking sites, like LinkedIn. Once you have a blog(s) and want blogging gigs, the more people who know you’re available, the better.
OK, back to your proposals. While business proposals can be complex, and 50 pages long, your modest blogging proposals can be 200 words, and sent via email.
It’s vital that your proposals are not perceived as spam, so: address your proposal to an individual by name, and include your complete contact details with your phone number. You also need to ensure that your proposal is business-like; this means use spell-check, and write proper English - for example, the back-slash (\) is not an apostrophe, yet people seem to be using it as one - don’t do this in your proposals if you want to be taken seriously.
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