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It’s the middle of Thanksgiving week so I’ve put together this roundup of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for freelance writers and bloggers. Some of them end before Cyber Monday so take note of the dates so you don’t miss out. I’ll be adding any more I find so be sure to bookmark this page.
WRITING COURSES
Write Your Way to Your First $1K
Elna Cain is a professional online writer who’s has been featured in a variety of popular publications including Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, Freelance Writing, and Smart Blogger.
Her popular freelance writing course, Write Your Way To Your First $1K teaches you how to make your first $1K as a freelance writer. It’s now on sale for Black Friday and comes with two free bonus courses: Writing Sample Starter Kit for New Writers and Fast Track to SEO Writing.
This is one of the best Black Friday deals for want-to-be freelance writers.
NB: If you’re already into freelance writing and want to learn how to write high-paying blog posts, Freelance Blogging in a Weekend is also on sale.
Black Friday deal: 40% off Write Your Way To Your First $1K course; 50% off Freelance Blogging in a Weekend
Starts: Sale currently active
Ends: Unsure (so grab it before it’s gone)
Inkwell Editorial
Yuwanda Black, an experienced freelance writer, is offering Black Friday Deals on all of her courses: Make Money Writing Romance: Learn how to write, self-publish and promote romance novels and start making money in as little as 60 days. This course teaches you how to select your genre and plot your novel as well as how to self-publish and distribute your book.Â
SEO Copy Writer Training: Learn the ins and outs of SEO copywriting and start a freelance writing career. This course shows you how to choose your writing niche, create and implement a marketing plan and set your rates; everything you need to know to set up your entire online freelance writing business
Make Money Self Publishing Non-Fiction: Learn how to make money self-publishing non-fiction by creating and selling your own products like short ebooks, pamphlets, and online courses on outlets like Amazon, Udemy, and ClickBank.
How to Create an Online Course: Take the knowledge you have and turn it into a profitable online course. Learn how to brainstorm profitable ideas, create an outline, write, and successfully launch your course.
Black Friday deal: All courses are 25% off
Starts: Nov 27 @ 7:00 AM EST
Ends: Nov 30 @ 11:59 PM EST
Use coupon code 2020BFSale
Writing Courses on Udemy
Of all the courses I’ve ever bought on Udemy, the writing courses are the only ones I’ve finished 🤦🏽‍♀️. So if you’re like me these are the ones I recommend:
Writing with Confidence: Writing Beginner to Writing Pro – Clare Lynch
Ninja Writing: The Four Levels of Writing Mastery – Shani Raja
3-Step Writing System: Blogging and Writing Secrets– Tyler Speegle
7 Lessons for Becoming a Standout Writer – Duncan Koerber
Black Friday deal: Courses start at $9.99
Starts: Sale currently active
Ends: Friday, Nov 27
WRITER’S CRAFT 2.0 SUPER STACK
Infostack has brought back five of their most popular stacks for $49 each including Writer’s Craft 2.0. This stack is a comprehensive collection of ebooks and courses mostly geared towards fiction writers but there are a few things for non-fiction writers as well. The other stacks are the Health and Wellness Super Stack, the Social Media Influencer Super Stack, the Plant-Based Diet Super Stack and Coach to Profit 2.0.
Black Friday deal: 5 popular super stacks @ $49 each
Starts: Sale currently active
Ends: Tuesday, Dec 1, 2020
WRITING SOFTWARE
ProWriting Aid
ProWritingAid is a writing application that helps you improve your grammar and spelling. There’s a free version available but it has a 500-word limit. The premium version includes a desktop app (for both Windows and Mac) and integrates with the major supported browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari) as well as MS Word & Goggle docs.
Black Friday deal: 25% off Yearly subscription; 50% off Lifetime onetime payment
Starts: Sale currently active
Ends: Monday, Nov 30, 2020
STOCK PHOTOS
Deposit Photos
The most talked-about deal in the blogging world is the AppSumo Deposit Photos deal. It’s usually 100 photos for $49 but during the worldwide lockdowns earlier this year, they offered it for $10 less! And now that deal is back!
Choose from over 100 million royalty-free stock photos and vector images. Use them for blog posts, sales pages, website content, etc. These credits NEVER expire and you can buy them in stacks (i.e. if you buy 2, you get 200 photos you can use at any time)
Black Friday deal: 100 Stock Photos for $39 (Click on the Black Friday menu option to see this deal and others)
Starts: Sale currently active
Ends: Friday, Nov 27, 2020
USE CODE ‘BF2020‘ TO TAKE 10% OFF ORDERS OF $150+
BLACK FRIDAY WEBSITE DEALS
Need affordable hosting for your self-hosted blog? Thinking about freshening up your freelance writer website for the New Year? Check out these Black Friday website deals.
Hostinger
If you planning to start a new website or blog now’s the best time to get a new domain name and affordable hosting. All hosting packages come with a Free SSL certificate and a 30-day money-back guarantee; Premium and Business shared hosting also includes a free domain name.
Black Friday deal: Up to 90% off hosting packages
Starts: Sale currently active
Ends: Friday, Nov 30, 2020
Elementor
Elementor is the world’s leading drag and drop WordPress Website Builder. There’s an excellent free version but if you need something more consider upgrading to the Pro version. Even though I know how to code, I love it because it makes building a professional-looking website easier and faster.
The Pro version comes with over 50 widgets and 300 templates.
Black Friday deal: Up to 25% off Pro versions
Starts: Sale currently active
Ends: Friday, Nov 27, 2020
Astra Pro Theme
With 1 million active installs, the Astra theme is the most popular theme of all time for WordPress websites. Includes complete website starter templates for Elementor to help you get your first website up in no time at all.
Black Friday deal: *40% OFF on the first 300 purchases of the Agency Bundle only; *30% OFF on all other purchases and upgrades.
Starts: Sale currently running
Ends: Monday, Nov 30
Short Pixel
Large photos and images can slow down your website’s performance (which in turn affects your SEO rankings). Short Pixel, an image optimizer plugin for WordPress, uses advanced compression technology to optimize and reduce the size of your website images by up to 90%.
Appsumo currently has a lifetime (as in you pay nothing else… ever) deal on the Large Plan. This isn’t specifically a Black Friday deal, but it’s a good one to get.
Current deal: Lifetime Deal on Large Plan (15,000 credits per month) for $49 (Click on the link and search for Short Pixel if you don’t see it) Starts: Sale currently running
Ends: Unsure – they usually have a limit on the number of deals they can sell but it’s not specified.
REMOTE WORK
FlexJobs
If you’re looking for remote work, now is the best time to sign up at FlexJobs. It’s considered the number one job site for finding remote work and I especially like it because all of the jobs are vetted. No need to worry about scams. They’re offering their deepest discount ever… up to 67% off memberships.
Black Friday deal: up to 67% off memberships.
Starts: Sale currently running
Ends: Sunday, Dec 6, 2020
Use code FRIDAY
Did I Miss Something?
If you’ve spotted any Black Friday deals for writings that I didn’t mention, let me know in the comments. I’ll add them to the list.
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