185: How you can Get a Running a blog Job

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How you can Apply for a Running a blog Job
In at present’s lesson, I wish to discuss discovering a job as a blogger – notably the best way to apply for a running a blog job.

Again in 2006 I seen I began getting quite a lot of two forms of emails:

Folks wanting to rent bloggers would e-mail me asking if I knew anybody appropriate for a running a blog job that that they had.
Bloggers would e-mail asking if I knew anybody seeking to rent a blogger.

After months of getting these sorts of emails and manually taking part in matchmaker I made a decision it might be simpler if I simply created a spot for folks to satisfy each other.
I began the ProBlogger job board the place these seeking to rent bloggers may promote their running a blog job alternatives and bloggers may apply for the roles.

Whereas it began gradual with only a new job each few days – since 2006 we’ve had effectively over 10,000 jobs listed!
Today there’s often 1-5 new jobs listed on the boards – with some days as many as 10 new ones going up.
Late final yr we redesigned the job board and added some new classes. Now you cannot solely promote to discover a author however there’s the flexibility to seek out folks to work as editors/proofreaders, ghostwriters, promoters/entrepreneurs, copywriters and extra.
I take advantage of the job board to promote for writers alone images weblog a number of occasions a yr and we all the time discover nice candidates however each time we do it highlights to me that some folks may do with some assist in placing their utility collectively.
So in at present’s episode I wish to offer you some suggestions for making use of for a running a blog job.
When you’re in search of work for the time being – that is the episode for you.
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Hello there and welcome to episode 185 of the ProBlogger podcast.
My title is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com, a weblog, podcast, occasion, job board and a collection of ebooks all designed that can assist you as a blogger to begin your weblog, to develop your viewers, to create nice content material, interact with that viewers and hopefully make some cash out of your weblog as effectively.
You’ll be able to be taught extra about ProBlogger and all we do over at problogger.com. Simply have a look at the menu on the prime and also you’ll discover all the various things I’ve simply talked about.
In at present’s lesson, I wish to discuss discovering a job as a blogger, notably the best way to apply for a running a blog job. Again in 2006, I seen I began getting two forms of questions fairly often from readers of ProBlogger. Firstly, there was one group of bloggers who needed to rent somebody to work for them. Both as a author, an editor or in another facet of their enterprise and these folks would e-mail me and go, are you aware anybody who’s appropriate for the sort of job?
The second kind of e-mail had been from folks in search of work. Folks saying I need a half time job, I’m constructing my weblog, I want to choose up another work. Are you aware anybody wanting to rent somebody like me? I noticed I used to be good at taking part in the matchmaker and I used to try to match folks up and look via the emails I used to be getting from folks wanting to rent and try to match them up with a folks seeking to be employed nevertheless it was a little bit of a clunky course of. I made a decision it might be so much simpler if I simply created a spot the place folks may meet each other.
I began the ProBlogger Job Board. It is a place the place folks seeking to rent bloggers may promote their jobs and folks in search of work may apply for these jobs. It began in 2006, I can’t bear in mind precisely when within the yr nevertheless it began very slowly. I bear in mind going to some of my buddy’s and saying, hey, do you wish to promote free of charge on it? Simply to get some jobs on the market and I believe it launched with 5 – 6 totally different jobs. Each few days another person would promote on it.
Since that point, it’s grown and the demand for folks seeking to rent writers and bloggers for various features of their enterprise has grown. Since 2006, we’ve had effectively over 10,000 jobs listed on that job board. Over 10 years now, we’ve had about 1,000 jobs per yr on common, though it has escalated. Today, usually, there’s not less than one new job marketed day by day. Typically as many as 5 – 6. I believe our report was 12 jobs in someday listed. As I simply checked out it now, there’s over 100 jobs listed on the job board proper now, 4 entire pages value of them.
Late final yr we redesigned the job board and added some new classes. Now you cannot solely promote if you wish to discover a author however it’s also possible to promote for editors, proofreaders, ghostwriters, copywriters, even folks that can assist you promote your weblog. There’s a lot of totally different classes that you may promote there for.
In case you are in search of work for the time being, as a blogger, you wish to complement your earnings ultimately, there’

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