4 Ways to Avoid Lowballing as a Freelance Writer

Companies earn far more than they pay you

Rachel Yerks
The Post-Grad Survival Guide
4 min readJun 10, 2021

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Freelance writers often need to negotiate their rates. One-off blog posts, ongoing contracts, promotional work, and other assignments are all different and require unique pricing.

As a full-time freelance writer since November 2020, I have a few different strategies I use to negotiate my…

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