AMOM Day 7: Market Your Reprints
Go through your files, make a list of all the articles and essays to which you still own rights, and make a focused effort to sell them to new markets. Reprints are an incredibly easy way of earning more money, and successful writers earn thousands of dollars each year from this tiny effort. Build your inventory of new articles, but set out a few hours each week to market the undying potential of old ones.
How you do it is simple. Either you can send match a single article to a single publication and send that to the editor, or you find a local or regional publication, and send them a list of available topics you have on file. This works best when you have a range of articles on a single topic (say, wedding preparations) and the magazine is catering to a specific audience.