T. R. Fowler is making $5000 per week as a freelance blogger. He has 10 clients who each pay him $500 per week to maintain their blogs. Fowler is the first to admit that $500 per week is well above the average rate of pay for a freelance blogging gig; but as he states, “Five hundred dollars for 35 quality written blog posts, each with at least 350 words, is a bargain.” When T.R Fowler first started shopping around for freelance blogging gigs he was appalled by the insulting payments writers were accepting for their work.

“I saw this one ad where some guy was advertising for someone to make 5 three-hundred word posts per day to his blog 7 days per week. He wrote something to the effect of ‘I’ll pay $25 per month and that’s it. Don’t write me making any counter offers.’ It was outrageous, but the most shocking thing for me wasn’t that someone had the nerve to take an attitude like that while offering to pay a writer $25 per month to write 45000 words per month on his behalf . The biggest shock for me were the 30-something writers who responded expressing interest in the job. How desperate can they be? Geez, even if you charge a penny per word  you’re looking at $450 per month for 45000 words.”

Fowler refused to become one of those writers bartering in freelance writing marketplaces with unscrupulous characters looking for the cheapest labor they can find with blatant disregard for the basic tenets of fair trade. He stopped reading want ads and started selling his services, creating ads that immediately filtered out the cheap labor seekers from the respectable business people willing and able to pay fairly.

“The clients are out there,” says Fowler. “It’s a matter of figuring out how to convince them that they’re better off going with you over the guy who’s willing to accept $25 per month to do the job. You have to help them to appreciate that no self-respecting writer will sell himself that short…that any writer who will accept $25 per month to write 5 blog posts per day 7 days per week with at least 350 words per post is not going to be overly concerned with the quality of the work he produces. And he won’t be able to afford the time to make 5 posts per day 7 days per week either because he won’t be able to live on $25 per month. He’ll need to be out working a regular job.”

Of course to be able to demand $500 per week from a client a writer needs to be capable of producing quality work that will enhance the client’s business. Getting the client is one thing, keeping the client is something altogether different. Talent, professionalism, reliability, effectiveness, respect for the client’s property, understanding of the client’s goals and agenda, availability to the client, knowledge of the client’s audience, respect for the client’s audience, these are just some of the requirements needed for a successful venture as a high-earning freelance blogger.

Just read a very interesting blog post by on the site Thomassinfield.com. The post is titled “5 Reasons Why You WILL Fail At Blogging!”. It lists, obviously, 5 reasons why 99.99% of bloggers fail to make any money with their blog.

Since blogging is one of the main ways people are trying to make money online these days I thought it would be a good idea to share this with you in case you’re thinking of starting a blog yourself, or in case you’ve been trying to make money blogging and can’t figure out why you’re not managing to make a dime.

5 Reasons Why You WILL Fail At Blogging!