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Earn More Money For Your Writing With This One Seriously Stupidly Easy Trick
Ready For It? Are you sure? OK, here it comes…
Ask. Nicely.
Yep, that’s it.
The next time someone offers you a rate, ask them to pay you more than they are offering.
Maybe that feels like a very scary action to you. Maybe you’re thinking…
“But Jessica, I can’t do that…”
Why not?
“What if they say ‘never mind’? I can’t afford to lose the work.”
Taking risks is a part of advancement in any field, business, career, gig, job or hustle. It’s the way to climb out of the fox hole you’re putting your head down in, day to day.
Confrontation is scary. Remember that scene in the feature film Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and the lovable Ed Norton where they tried to start fights with people and their targets went out of their way to avoid the fights? Most people don’t want trouble, and they’ll do anything to avoid it, i.e., most people won’t ask for more money. That leaves more for the people who will.
Below, I even give you an example of the words to use.
I learned something in the last year and a half from working on my writing while being a…