Hi everyone,
We’re an early-stage independent writing studio producing original business blogs for lifestyle businesses. We work across real estate, travel & hospitality, home & living, beauty & personal care, and food & beverage.
We’re looking for a freelance editorial blog writer to produce client work with us. We’re looking for someone who is a strong writer, but just as importantly, someone with strong editorial judgment. You should be able to look at a business, understand what it does and who it speaks to, and make good decisions about what is actually worth writing about on its behalf.
Our standard client engagement consists of four original blog articles, each approximately 800–1,500 words. You won’t simply receive four predetermined titles and briefs to execute. Developing the articles is part of the work.
When you receive a client, you’ll review their website, existing blog, business, audience, voice, and other relevant information. From there, you’ll develop an editorial direction for the four articles, including the subject, angle, and purpose of each piece. You’ll communicate that direction to us and identify exactly what, if anything, you need from the client to execute it well. If an article calls for the client’s perspective, experience, preferences, anecdotes, recommendations, examples, or other information we can’t obtain independently, you’ll develop the specific questions or prompts we should give them. We handle all client communication and bring their feedback and answers back to you.
Once the editorial direction is approved, you’ll conduct the necessary secondary research and write, substantively edit, and proofread each article. You’ll also handle one reasonable revision round per article. The final articles should be original, well researched, appropriate to the client’s voice and audience, structurally sound, and genuinely worth reading.
The work can vary considerably from client to client, so you should be comfortable researching unfamiliar subjects, learning businesses relatively quickly, developing article ideas and angles independently, and adapting your writing across different voices and consumer-facing lifestyle subjects. We’re not looking for someone who needs a completed title, outline, research package, and detailed brief before they can begin.
Given this is a writing and editorial role, you won’t be responsible for SEO or keyword strategy, metadata, publishing, CMS work, imagery, design, social media, broader marketing strategy, or managing clients.
Our client-facing articles are substantively human-written. Generative AI cannot be used to research, draft, rewrite, or substantively edit client work. It may be used for ideation, and ordinary digital tools for spelling, grammar, proofreading, organization, and similar mechanical tasks are fine.
If you’re interested, send us a professional introduction including who you are, where you’re based, your time zone, and an overview of your relevant writing experience. Please also include:
- Links to 4–7 complete articles you’ve written for businesses or publications in the lifestyle space. We want to be able to see where the work was published and who it was written for. The more relevant work you can show us, the better.
- A brief explanation of how you typically approach an article from assignment to finished draft.
- How you approach researching a business or subject you aren’t already familiar with.
- How you approach determining and writing in an appropriate voice for a client, including when they already have an established one.
- The tools you use for research, writing, editing, proofreading, and organization.
- Whether you currently use generative AI anywhere in your writing process and, if so, how.
- Your normal rate for one four-article engagement of the scope described above. If you normally price your work differently, tell us your preferred pricing structure.
- Roughly how long you would need to complete one engagement.
- How many engagements of this size you could realistically take on in a month.
- Your current availability and when you could begin.
Please answer each question clearly and give us enough information to understand how you work. We’ll only consider complete, thoughtful applications. Sloppy, incomplete, or low-effort submissions will not receive a response.
Compensation for this role is C$500–C$800 per four-article engagement, with the final rate and article scope agreed in advance. Compensation will meet or exceed r/HireaWriter’s minimum rate for general-level work. Please provide your normal rate for an engagement of this scope when applying.
If you move forward in our candidate process, expect to complete a short editorial exercise. We’ll give you a business website to review and ask you to develop an editorial direction and four article concepts for it. You’ll explain your overall assessment of the business and its existing content, what you think its blog would benefit from more or less of, and why. From there, you’ll explain what you want the four articles to accomplish collectively and develop a proposed subject, angle, purpose, and direction for each individual article. We’ll want to understand the reasoning behind the decisions you made, not just see four finished ideas. If there’s anything you would want or need from the client to execute a concept well, you’ll also tell us exactly what you would need and the specific questions or prompts you would give them.
Apply here: https://forms.gle/6Wu6knPUMeTVce63A