On Saturday, I had the pleasure of speaking on an online writing panel with Mayra Ruiz-McPherson, Thursday Bram and Deborah Ager facilitated by Kristen King. All are fantastic ladies and leaders in their fields. The panel was part of the 30th annual American Independent Writers conference.
While a lot of the discussion revolved around transitioning from print to electronic writing, there was also much talk about the legitimacy of blogging and citizen journalism. Attendees asked about how to generate revenue from blogging and how low blogging pay rates compare with larger print pay rates. Here are a few takeaways:
- Writers blog for many different reasons like marketing another business, to raise their rep as an expert in their field or to drive traffic to third party revenue services (like AdSense).
- While pay rate per post may be low, if you can turn over many posts in an hour, the per hour pay rate actually increases.
- Pay rates for print jobs are dropping. In the future, blogging and print pay rates may be equal.
Here are other great wrap-ups of the event. Many thanks to Kristen King for having me!
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