Writer wanted for content marketing platform | ~$250 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: LETTERDROP

Looking for someone to create well thought-out blog posts that can educate and persuade. As long as you’re good at writing, have good work ethic and are willing to learn, we can teach you about B2B writing and content marketing.

Part-time. Flexible hours. One day of work per week. Perfect for a freelancer, student, a side hustle, or stay-at-home parent.

ABOUT US

Letterdrop is an end-to-end content marketing platform. Today, we help B2B companies attract more customers through SEO and email marketing. We make it easy to produce content for your business that converts visitors to customers.

OUR PLATFORM HELPS BUSINESSES:

• collect, research, and prioritize content ideas
• collaborate with teammates and external writers to create content
• distribute content on an SEO-optimized blog, newsletter, and relevant social media channels

We're working towards a future where every company and agency turns to Letterdrop for their content marketing operations.

OUR CONTENT GOAL

We're looking to invest in content to educate Heads of Marketing, Content Marketers, and Small Business Owners about content marketing. We want to be the go-to source for all things SEO, socil, email, and content marketing for them. The goal for our content is two-fold:

• SEO Attract new customers via SEO. We will be writing content around certain content pillars as a part of a broader content strategy based on keyword research.
• Re-engagement Educate existing customers and leads by repurposing our blog content as an email newsletter.

Check out our blog at letterdrop.com/blog understand the type of content we write.

To get a better understanding of the type of content we'd be producing, please reference blogs produced by these companies targeting a similar audience:

• https://coschedule.com/blog
• https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing
• https://wtfseo.substack.com/

OUR AUDIENCE

Our target audience is savvy with growing a business but may not know the ins and outs of content marketing specifically. They need information structured in a way that's clear and can tell them what they need to know concisely in a few lines. At the same time, we want to be able to expand to create comprehensive no-BS no-fluff resources for them if they choose to read further.

WORKING WITH US

From our side, we promise to be organized, provide you with a style guide, a good description of what is needed, relevant reference resources, and the target keyword for each post. We will provide you with tools like Grammarly Business, an SEO checker, and plagiarism checker.

WE EXPECT WRITING TO BE:

• well-researched: Cite your sources. Make sure that we provide valuable and relevant information.
• not fluffy: We do not care about hitting word counts and saying empty sentences. If it's filler content, it gets edited out.
• reads like you speak: This isn't an academic paper or Shakespeare. Write like you speak.
• follows our style guide: After the first one or two pieces, we expect you to learn how we like to communicate.
• written in American English and is grammatically correct: self-explanatory

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Writing 4 blog posts around 1200-1500 words long per month
• Composing tweet threads and LinkedIn posts summarizing these blog posts

This is a contract part-time position that we estimate this to take about 1 working day per week. We would like to work with you for 6 months to a year at least.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Prior experience writing for software companies or ability to adapt your writing to it.
• Familiarity with marketing principles. You should be able to research and write intelligently about the space.
• A passion for writing and the English language. You’re excited to tell stories through quality long-form content. You’re ok with writing content where the primary goal is to educate and persuade.
• We are flexible about hours and deadlines. We can give you up to a week per post. We prefer quality content to rushed content. Once timelines are set, we expect them to be followed barring unforeseen circumstances.

LOGISTICS

• Part-time: 1 day per week
• Flexible hours
• Deliverable is a blog post along with a short summary for a Twitter and LinkedIn
• Remote

HOW TO APPLY

Send an email to write at letterdrop.com with the subject line [Apply] Letterdrop Writer

In the body, include:

• Your portfolio and call out any relevant writing samples
• LinkedIn/personal site/resume to our recruiter

You don't need to add any formalities or a cover letter. We're just looking for samples of your writing and proof that you can write about content marketing.

Thank you for reading! We're excited to work with you.

JOB SUMMARY:

• Looking for: Content Writer
• Location: Remote
• Compensation: $1,000 a month (4 blog posts per month)

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions / applications: write@letterdrop.com

Website: https://letterdrop.com/blog

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