It's easy and idealistic to say, but seriously: stop writing for free. This means you, if you're one of the many Huffington Post bloggers who don't get paid....If you're blogging for someone other than yourself (not as a commenter, not as a personal blogger; those are labors of love and don't count) you deserve to be paid.
If you're an employee or an independent contractor or a freelancer and some entity or website is making money off your labor, you deserve to be paid. It doesn't matter how solvent the company is--they're still selling ads and making revenue.
It really is as simple as that. No one who considers him/herself a professional writer should work for free... and if your writing is good enough that someone else wants to hire you, then it's good enough to get paid for.
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