All Work and No Work

Just a couple of days ago I wrote about trying to fit work and promotion
into an already crowded schedule. Life as a freelancer is like that, there's either more work than you can get done in the time available, so you end up ghosting it; or you haven't put sufficient time into promotion and the work dries up.

Finding the Balance

Successful freelancing is about balance, balancing the work you do against the time you need to spend finding more work. One way of doing this is to have a couple of things to fall back. Associated Content and Constant Content are both sites where you can earn money writing articles and it is worth writing some during your down time because they could bring you in some money. Another site that will pay you for news reviews is Brigit they provide links to news articles and you review them in a hundred and fifty words - if your review is accepted then you earn five dollars.

It is not easy to forecast when the work is going to come in which is why it is a good idea to have some kind of fall back plan where you could earn a bit of money, and put the rest of the time into promotion.

What do you do when the pendulum swings from all work to no work?