Freelancing

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Work for Yourself First, Others Second

When we are service oriented in our business, we often forget that while we need to have money coming in from the clients, we also need to invest in our business.  That means that we need to work for ourselves. Start your day off by doing something that is going ...

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20 Ways to Promote Your Professional Freelance Writer Site

One thing writers hear often is that they need to have a professional site (or a portfolio site) if they want to get private clients.  And I completely agree. Your professional site is like your office online.  It is the place where you can direct clients when they want to ...

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50 Reasons Freelance Writers Should Be Using Social Media

When it comes right down to it, I know that as a freelance writer, you are busy.  Whether you are a freelance writer that supplements the household income by writing or a freelance writer that is working part-time or a freelance writer that using writing as the main source of ...

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Should I Take a Writing Course?

Image via Wikipedia As the new year approaches, we often start to re-evaluate.  We re-evaluate our relationships, our friendships, our lifestyles – and especially our careers. And that’s a good thing as far as I’m concerned.  Re-evaluation should be an ongoing process (not just at this time of the year!) ...

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The Traditional Goals-for-Next-Year Post

Image via Wikipedia I thought about whether I was going to do this post or not this year and have finally decided that I am.  But before I go into the goals for next year I want to look at my goals for this year. Take advantage of real life ...

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Grab A Coffee and Make Yourself at Home

I’m a freelance writer but I’m kind of obsessed with social media so most of this blog is about my journey as a freelance writer and my obsession with social media.  Makes sense, right?  I love blogging but I really love how you can use Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to ...

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How Dare You Write for Peanuts?

Image via Wikipedia You know, I have to say that I am just getting so tired of this debate.  Some writers think that they have the right to judge those who write for low pay.  Some writers think that because they are making “more” (whatever that may be to them) ...

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Article Marketing – Learn to Sell Without Selling

Image via Wikipedia If you do article marketing as a way of building backlinks for your web sites you are likely already passionate about what your topic is. You like sharing what you know and the services or products that you have to offer. But are you coming across as ...

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How to Write a Great How-To Article

Image via Wikipedia If you are using article marketing to help drive traffic to your website you will need to come up with ideas for articles that people will want to publish and read. The quality of articles found on article directories can vary significantly so it is important that ...

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Give Credit Where Credit is Due – Even to Yourself

Image via Wikipedia Many freelance writers find it difficult to get ahead in their writing career because they don’t believe in themselves.  They don’t believe that what they are capable of has value so they work for the low paying jobs and never apply for the high paying jobs. There ...

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Find Ideas for Writing Content

Adrienne Smith gives some great advice on finding ideas for writing content and finding ideas. One of her suggestions is to brows through EzineArticles and I’ve used that trick myself several times. There are lots of other places where you can find ideas online, too. I use YouTube (the second ...

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Freelance Writers Can Stay Motivated with These 7 Tips

Image via Wikipedia Staying motivated is one of the things that I think everyone has a hard time with at one point or another.  Sometimes we get frustrated with a project because it is not going the way we think it should.  Other times we lose motivation because we get ...

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