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One of the best things about social media is that businesses can interact with consumers where they play.  You have seen this in traditional means of advertising, too.  You see billboard ads at events.  You see advertising at the Winnipeg Goldeyes Games.  You see advertisements on the LED screens at ...

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If you are a fiction writer, online writer, or magazine writer, you need to be able to promote yourself.  Unless of course you’re big enough to have an agent that does all of that for you.  But the majority of us are web writers and the only people we can ...

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Thumbnail image for Are These 8 Marketing Mistakes Hurting Your Freelance Writing Career?  – Part 2

This is part two of a three part series.  In part one we talked about marketing yourself as a freelance writer and targeting your marketing efforts. Here are some more mistakes you might be making: Mistake #3: You’re not getting personal enough. Copying a pasting the same generic message and ...

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I’m a big believer in social media marketing.  You all know that.  I think that social media is the new search engine and studies are starting to show that more and more people look to social media for information on topics, rather than the search engines.  Will search engines like ...

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Twitter is a very useful resource for aspiring writers as it helps them to work on their narrative voice, to reach a new audience, and to develop creative ways of expressing themselves due to the 140 character limit on each tweet. However, many writers misunderstand the purpose of Twitter, and ...

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It’s another Sunday and there have been some great blog posts out there worth reading.  Do you do your blog reading on a particular day or do you read throughout the week?  One of the reasons I like to try to do my blog reading on Sunday (sometimes on the ...

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Thumbnail image for The Top 25 Ways To Ensure That Your Freelance Writing Career is a Flop

People always tell you how to succeed at things but I think that if you really want to be a freelance writers you should know about the things that will ensure complete and utter failure.  That way you can make sure that you are not doing them! So what should  ...

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It’s been ages since I’ve had Sunday Reading here on the blog and I was inspired to get started with this again when I found out that the Beginner Weblog Reference mentioned me in their post about getting inbound links.  The post they wrote is about various ways you can ...

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Thumbnail image for 31DBBB – Elevator Pitches and List Posts

I’ve done two days of the 31DBBB book so far. The first day was about elevator pitches.  This one wasn’t too hard for me because I’ve done it before. My short elevator speech: I help freelance writers find their way in a social media world. My long elevator speech: Many ...

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Thumbnail image for 5 Ways Freelance Writers Can Use Social Media to Increase Their Web Presence

I have talked to many freelance writers who want to grow.  They want to build on their business, get better private clients, and ultimately, be able to increase their prices to increase their earnings. I have found that having a web presence can significantly increase your chances of connecting with ...

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In my life, I have found that the times that I have been most successful is when I’ve been presented with a challenge and when I have a group of people that are working along side me on a similar or same project.  For example: when I want to lose ...

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When I recently participated in the JobMob blogging contest (it’s still on going but I’m in first place and the other participants are going to have to work hard to beat me – my week is done, so I can’t get more “votes”) I wrote about ways that people could ...

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