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I usually charge a flat fee. Eliminates the debate about how long something should take. For other professionals, flat $500 for resume, press release etc. They provide info, I write. I would take the gig because it will give you clips and reference if you’re just getting started.
Do a one hour test. Write something and edit it within that hour and see what sorta useful output you can get. Extrapolate that out to ten hours and figure what's a good rate. If you do 500 words an hour, at 10 hrs a week, that's 5000 words. At even ten cents a word that's 500 usd. Pick more like 20 cents a word and it's 100 usd an hour/1k per week.
As a Consultant, your full time jobs hourly rate is around 65-90 an hour. Use that as a barometer if you have to
How do you find clients to do this type of work?
I got lucky. An old professor randomly reached out once he launched his start up