August 2009

Get Ready For The Ebook: Your Marketing Will Never Be The Same

Tomorrow morning, the ebook of “Market Your Freelance Writing In 31 Days” will go on sale. This ebook is based on the month-long series I did in July, discussing marketing your work to increase your income. But there are some major differences: The ebook is 65 pages long — more than double the length of [...]

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The Proximidade Award

The amazing Sharon Hurley Hall awarded me a Proximidade Award, on the condition that I pass it along to eight bloggers. According to the rules of the Award, I am to chose bloggers who are “exceedingly charming, blogging friends who aim to find and be friends” and include the following text in my post. “I [...]

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Marketing Is More Than Landing Clients For Freelance Writers

Marketing is more than landing clients. It’s more than who will ask you to work on a project — it affects who YOU can ask to work on a project. Today, I had a milestone in my writing career: I’ve been writing for some decently well-known websites for quite a while, including one which occasionally [...]

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You Are the CTO of Your Freelance Business

Big companies keep entire departments around for the sole purpose of managing technology: they’ve got employees dedicated to testing technology, buying new computers and even fixing any problems that come along. Many companies even have a chief technical officer on board to manage every aspect of technology within the company. As a freelance writer, though, [...]

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Ask Me Anything, Edition 9

Ron K. Jeffries followed up my post about PayPal’s new fees with a question: Are Google or Amazon services cheaper in terms of transaction fees? Google and Amazon both offer tools to help you accept payments. However, they’re set up a little differently than PayPal, focusing primarily on sellers rather than freelancers. The fees are [...]

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A Problem With PayPal: Don’t Pay Any Extra Fees

Lately, even my biggest clients have paid via PayPal. It’s an easy way to handle payments for freelancers, allowing you to accept payments without needing to wait for a check or hand out your banking information. Today, though, I’ve heard some worries about PayPal from several freelancers: seemingly overnight, the payment processing service added a [...]

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Review: The Weekend Writer

Not all freelance writer are in a position to go full-time, a fact that Denene Brox’s ebook, The Weekend Writer. In fact, the number of people who freelance on the weekends makes up a huge percentage of freelancers — and many don’t plan to eventually move to freelancing full-time. It’s a question of what works [...]

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Ask Me Anything, Edition 8

Mary Beth asks, How does one market oneself when one’s clips/portfolio is a mite bit sparse? I’ve found that while most editors and clients have a preference for clips or a portfolio that show your work in the wild — articles that have been published, copy that’s actually in use and other completed projects — [...]

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Getting Involved in Social Media: What Should You Be Promoting?

Social networking sites, like LinkedIn and Twitter, offer a huge opportunity to promote yourself and your writing services. But the techniques that a writer can use to promote herself on those sites aren’t quite the same methods that everyone else is using. Promoting Yourself, Not Your Clients Most social media users don’t have much choice [...]

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Review: Market This

As you might have figured out last month, I’m very interested in marketing — especially when it comes to the opportunities available for freelancers and small businesses. In part, that’s because I think that marketing such a business has to be different from marketing a larger business. Market This!: An Effective 90-Day Marketing Tool, by [...]

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