So this morning I saw this post on a lady entrepreneur group on Facebook. It was by a woman who was so excited that she wrote on her blog about NOT working for free and then Huffington Post online picked it up.
I asked her if they paid her or if she was working for free. She said they did not pay her but their COVERAGE is amazing. Um, okay. But isnt that ironic? You wrote about NOT working for free and you are doing it. And coverage doesnt really show up in my mailbox as a cold, hard check I can take to the bank and pay for braces, food, gas for my massive E350, vacations, retirement, a cute vintage dress, my monthly Weight Watchers pass.
No offense to all you amazing ladies writing for popular free sites like Huffington Post Parents, BluntMoms, etc., but:
(1) Why are you giving them your amazing parenting/family material for free when you could make real money sending it to regional parenting magazines or online mags that pay? (wait for it! i have the markets!). I want to make it VERY clear that I think your stuff rocks. I read it and I love it and I smack my head wondering why you dont shop it around, but we will get to that later.
(2) Why cant Huffington Post pay something by now? I know tiny little sites who can at least throw you 5 bucks for a brilliant post. How long does HuffPo think they can keep sucking out all your writing marrow FOR FREE? It burns my ass because some of you are quite a big deal. I want to make it VERY clear here that I love Huffington Post Parents and I read it and I love it and I truly aspire to also someday get published on that site ... coverage does rock as long as I am also getting paid for the same piece other places. Cake, eat. Yep.
I totally get it, though. Where the hell would you start if you wanted to send a piece to a magazine? Well, um, Writers Market put out by Writers Digest. Its been around FOREVER. And if you wanted to submit to the family and parenting markets? Well, Writers Market sucks for that, sorry. They only have a tiny handful of those markets.
But I have a ton of markets! And they pay! After I realized Writers Market sucked, I spent hours collecting them while my kids slept or nursed on me or played happily and I did it for you! I know a writer who had a regional parenting magazine see her piece on HuffPo and buy it. But why wait for that? Why not go straight to the mags? You can do both if you want! And by "both" I mean EVERYTHING!
This is important, so please pay attention!
You can have a piece on fancy HuffPo Parents while you also get it published MULTIPLE PLACES ... Houston Family, San Diego Family, Pittsburgh Parent, Baton Rouge Parents, Treasure Coast Parenting, Western New York Family and more all at the same time or in the same year or whenever they want to use your piece. There. So now you are on HuffPo Parents and you have $200+ in your bank account on top of it!
Yes, you can now. I am done lecturing and scolding you. But you have to go here to buy my book, which is available in both ebook and print versions! FREE TO KINDLE UNLIMITED USERS!
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| This is where I write. At this Formica table. Thats my little blue wireless mouse, and the kitchen is behind me since I seem to spend a lot of time there! I have a corner office with a window (so I can see what the naughty McKids are up to!) |
Part Two is going to ask why you are blogging for free
Part Three will ask why you are writing for content mills for 5 bucks an article
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