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Topic: Getting Le$$ Work--Economic Downturn?
| Author | Message |
| scribechick | Posted – 3/29/2008 12:50:53 PM | show profile Writing a piece on this topic. Anyone out there dealing with less assignments? Later payments? Pay cut? Shorter articles? More rejections? No doubt the economy affects jobs--freelancers sometimes get more work or less because of lean times. Please share...Post anonymously or email me. Tx. |
| Daisy Chestnut | Posted – 3/29/2008 2:02:57 PM | show profile | email poster Two magazines that I 've been pitching FOB items to for years--and have gotten many assignments from--recently told me they're not using freelancers anymore for the section: one is now being written in house; the other hired one person to do everything. Stinks as these were both very good clients. |
| scribechick | Posted – 3/30/2008 12:34:18 PM | show profile Hi Daisy, In-house work seems to be a trend during lean times--as it did back in 2001. Not fun for freelancers. Seems like we're the first to go. But I read an article which said the opposite. During a recession layoffs hit magazines/book publishers and freelancers are good to go (we don't get benefis). Anyone experience "good times" during bad time$? Or are you feeling the economic crunch, too? |
| scribechick | Posted – 3/30/2008 12:36:47 PM | show profile | email poster Oops. Forgot. If you have an inspiration anecdote about how you survived during a recession as a freelance writer -- writing(a few paragraphs is fine) or how you're beating the cutbacks--please share here or email me. Tx in advance. |
| scribechick | Posted – 4/2/2008 5:00:37 PM | show profile | email poster OK. The recession word is still in the top news and lurking around us. Isn't anyone out there affected? At all? Seems to me some of us must be dealing with the economic crunch, no? Please share... |
| reporterwriter | Posted – 4/2/2008 7:07:49 PM | show profile I'm affected, but not at all negatively. Sorry! |
| Righter | Posted – 4/2/2008 7:39:34 PM | show profile One of my biggest clients hasn't officially told me they no longer can afford my services but they haven't been calling me in for the monthly work they used to. They've blamed it on bad scheduling but I think it's the economy. I've busied myself with new clients in the meantime. |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 4/3/2008 4:21:45 AM | show profile So far -- knock wood -- 2008 has been fairly busy for me. Proportionally, I am getting more bigger money/longer corporate assignments ($3000-5000 range) than in 2007. My business is mercurial, though. I got calls about a couple of tentative $10,000 assignments. If they pay out, obviously that's a good chunk of scratch. If they don't, I could spend the time in Starbucks writing my novel instead. Either way, I don't care. In the long run, people need writers, and there's work. |
| Canadiana | Posted – 4/5/2008 8:27:24 PM | show profile Dribbledrive...you rock! |
| basenji | Posted – 4/6/2008 12:13:46 AM | show profile Dribble, how did you get started with corporate clients? How to break in ... Suggestions? What kind of work do you do for corporate clients and how do you know what to charge? |
