A typical magazine assignment goes something like this:

  1. You send a query letter proposing an article you’d like to write for a publication.
  2. The publication accepts your proposal and gives you a contract for the assignment.
  3. You do the research, write the article and submit it.
  4. The publication pays you.
  5. You send another query letter to a different publication proposing a new article…

…and the cycle of “query-acceptance-research-write-get paid” starts all over again. You can double, triple or quadruple your profits with half the effort by doing this one thing: Read the rest of this entry