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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I became a ghostwriter for biotech, green tech, and med tech companies. I get paid $1000-$2000 for articles that take me 3-4 hours to write.[/quote]

How do you find leads?[/quote]

Upwork, referrals, cold outreach.

That being said, 75% of what I do is business - customer service, finding customers, sales, etc. I hated it at first (social anxiety), but now I enjoy it. They're good skills to have no matter what industry you're in.

PP is wrong about ChatGPT. ChatGPT can write a blog post about the benefits of CBD gummies or whatever, but I write for emerging biotech industries where the science is closely guarded and ChatGPT doesn't know how it works. Most of what I do is interviewing scientists who know things nobody else does, then writing it in terms the general public can understand.[/quote]

Right so writing the articles takes 2 hours, but the rest of the job is 6 hours of business development per job?[/quote]

About that. If I write two $2000 per week, that's about 8-10 hours of work depending on how long they are.

The rest is networking, outreach, sales calls, communicating with current clients (they often LOVE meetings and we have to meet a couple times a month), invoicing, admin stuff, making edits on past articles, etc. That can take 15-30 hours depending on the week. I've been at it long enough I don't usually need to do a ton of sales calls or outreach, so I've been devoting those hours to writing my own science articles online for fun.[/quote]

Forgot to add - the flexibility is REALLY nice now that I have kids. If someone is sick, I can still work. I can often do meetings on the phone and take a walk. Sometimes I'll hire a VA to help with outreach. Some clients will fly me out to check out their facility and interview scientists.[/quote]

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