I landed a $10,000 gig as a freelance writer thanks to one cold email - Business Insider

This is a dicey strategy. If a freelance gig is posted on a job board, it means you're one of many applying, and a lot of these "opportunities" are for bad work at low pay.. I rarely apply for jobs, though. Instead, I'll scan through who's posting to learn about media companies I wouldn't have known about otherwise.

I still don't have a good handle on the entire B2B world, but for good reason. It's huge! The key is finding publications that match your skills. If you can write to a specific audience, you've got a heck of a lot less competition for good paying gigs than you would trying to write music reviews for your favorite national magazine.

I found B2B Publisher B that way: a job listing. They were looking for a full-time editor. I took the name of the publication, found the name of the parent company, and sent a letter of introduction to the editor of their construction magazine — another area where I'd written before. An LOI is like the email version of a cold call. Instead of pitching a specific story idea, you're pitching yourself, your skills, and your experience. My name is Jen A. Miller, and I'm reaching out to see if you are looking for writers for B2B Publisher B. I've been writing about construction since 2002 — in-house at L.F. Driscoll Co. in Pennsylvania to start and then with ENR and Builder after.

In addition to my engineering writing, I also write regularly for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and

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