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Remote Content Writer / Editor wanted for CBD lifestyle brand | $25 per hour

Added 2020-03-17 02:27:41 +0000 UTC

FEEL ME FLOW IS LOOKING FOR A CONTENT WRITER / EDITOR.

Our content marketing firm (feelmeflow.com) is looking for a remote freelance editor to work with our client, a CBD, outdoor-geared, lifestyle brand. The project is long-term with a good number of hours involved, and entails both digital and for-print content. Please read details below.

ABOUT YOU

Working vocabulary of financial topics - You’ll be interviewing company executives and need to understand the concepts.
Experience writing long-form blog content - Know how to format content for online reading and write basic metadata (page title, description, keywords, slug).
Strong research skills - You’ll be ghostwriting some articles, so you need to be able to find credible sources and use your working knowledge of financial topics to write.
Eagle-eye for detail - Important for converting blog articles to for-print manuscript.
Tech-savvy - We work entirely remotely, so all the platforms we use are online and cloud-based.
Ideally, a familiarity with book editing or writing for print - There will be support in this part of the job, so the capacity to perform this type of editing is more important than extensive experience in book editing.

JOB DUTIES

The writer/editor for this role will have a range of editing and writing duties, including but not limited to:

Conduct Interviews, edit into long-form blog articles and email newsletters
Schedule and conduct phone interviews with the company's executives and other partners
Edit interview transcripts into long-form blog posts (~1,000 words each)
Write social media status updates (not social media management; just writing the statuses)
Articles published once weekly

Ghostwrite long-form blog articles

Write long-form blog articles (~1,000 words) on a variety of financial topics under the firm partners’ names
Write social media status updates (not social media management; just writing the statuses)

Edit and/or ghostwrite email newsletters

Topics will mostly come from phone interviews and occasionally clients’ appearances on podcasts, or entirely ghostwritten
Newsletter sent once weekly

Digital/social engagement

Research and respond to 4 questions on Quora each month (research, write a response, send for client feedback, then post)
Send 5 guest-spot pitches per month (research blog/vlog/podcast outlets, send cold pitch email)

Editorial calendar planning

Every quarter, you'll come up with 15 story pitches to create the next quarter's editorial calendar.

TIME COMMITMENT AND PAY

Approximate time commitment is:

~ 5-10 hours/week of research, writing, and editing
~ 2-3 hours/month of scheduling and conducting phone interviews ~ 5-7 hours/quarterly of writing and revising story pitches
~ Pay for interviewing, writing, editing, and research is $25/hour

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