Some bloggers don’t want you to know they have competitors. Some bloggers don’t want you to like the competition. Not us. We want you to know that we think you should visit all the blogs in the niche including the competition. Even the blogs and bloggers we don’t particularly like.
Here’s why:
- Other bloggers have stuff to share too
- Other bloggers have stuff to teach too
- Other bloggers have communities to enjoy too
- I don’t believe in competition. I believe in colleagues and collaborators
If there’s one thing I’ve made perfectly clear, it’s that I’m not an expert. You can learn so much from everyone else too. So please, visit the competition.
In fact, I’m going to list as many competitors as possible. If you can think of others. do add them into the comments:
- About Freelance Writing
- About.com Freelance Writing
- Angela Booth’s Fab Freelance Writing Blog
- Bob Bly
- Carson Brackney
- Catalyst Blogger
- Chris Brogan
- Confident Writing
- CopyBlogger
- The Copywriter’s Crucible
- Daily Blog Tips
- Daily Writing Tips
- Editor Unleashed
- Escape from Corporate America
- Freelance Folder
- The Freelance Rant
- Freelance Switch
- Fuel Your Writing
- Get Paid to Write Online
- How Not to Write
- Ink Thinker
- Make a Living Writing
- Mark it Right
- Men with Pens
- Pajama Professional
- PoeWar
- ProBlogger
- ProCopy Tips
- Read Write Web
- Renegade Writer
- Remarkablogger.com
- Screw You!
- Thursday Bram begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting
- Undress for Success
- Urban Muse
- Web Worker Daily
- The Well Fed Writer Blog
- Word Count
- Words for Hire
- Words on the Page
- Working at Home on the Internet
- Write to Done
- The Writer’s Technical Companion
- Writing Forward
- The Writing Journey
- Writing for the Web
- Writing Thoughts
- Writing White Papers
What a great list of resources! Thanks so much Deb! Off to check each of them out.
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Thanks for this list. I was just saying that I need to read more writing blogs and socialize more online. I checked them all out and added the ones I liked to my Google reader.
Hello Deb,
I appreciate you sharing information about other writing help websites. I checked out a few of them before clicking on number 35 (Undress for Success). It was a real eye opener. I imagined it to be about writing in one’s pj’s, well, I was wrong. Anyway, now I understand why they are considered competition! LOL!
Karl
Thanks for including WordCount. I agree with you about thinking of fellow writing bloggers are community rather than competition. Because really, your success doesn’t take away from mine, it enhances the entire writing community. And collaboration is a good thing, especially for sole proprietors like freelance writers and entrepreneurial journalists.
Michelle Rafter
WordCount: Freelancing in the Digital Age
Thanks for the shout out. On Facebook, I was asking for more freelance blogs to add to my iGoogle, and here they are!
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Wow! Thanks for this great list of resources! Just let me get another Red Bull and dig in LOL
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Thanks for the mention! Looks like a great list — I want to check out some of the others…familiar with many of these, but not all!
Carol
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Thanks for including me on the list Deb!
I hardly think of my blog as competition to Freelance Writing Jobs, but I appreciate the thought. 🙂
I’ll definitely be visiting some of these others.
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Just FYI, that second link to about.com is broken. It is missing an ‘e’. Currently links to freelancewrit.about.com it should go to freelancewrite.about.com.
Great list BTW.
Brian
Freelance Writing Business – ArcticLlama, LLC
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That was a great resourceful post Deb.
I have been dead in the head since my mothers death back in February and actually for quite sometime before that.
Thanks
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I am doing Freelancing for many years and I have a great experience of it. It is genuenly a great source of earning money.