October 2010

Ask Me Anything: Higher Paying Blogging Gigs

Karen Kefauver asks, Can you suggest where more seasoned writers like me may look for these higher end markets($100 a post? )? What URLS do you find these posts at? Or are they all word of mouth? I mentioned recently that I receive $100 or more a post for most of my blogging work, despite [...]

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Why Would a Writer Need a Coach — An Interview with Ali Hale

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There are a wide variety of ways to use writing skills and build a business. I had the chance to chat with Ali Luke on the new coaching service she’s rolling out to help other writers. Full disclosure: Ali is my partner over at ConstructivelyProductive and I think she’s absolutely awesome. 1. How can a [...]

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Content Marketing: Another Path for Writers

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The amount of work out there for a writer is only going up. That’s because more and more businesses have found content marketing to be an effective strategy for selling their products. Content marketing includes blogging, offering ebooks and generally making a huge amount of content available online. Someone has to write all of that [...]

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Don’t Blog About Places You Want to Get Hired

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Is there a client you’re trying to land, or even a day job that lets you use your writing skills? It may seem like an obvious rule, but you shouldn’t blog about those places, especially if you’re considering saying something less than pleasant. There’s the obvious chance that you’ll lose out on the deal to [...]

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Ask Me Anything: Compiling Letters

Christiana Aretta asks, How about some advice for someone compiling a journal of old letters? Licensing, copyright issues, etc. The big question when publishing a letter is whether or not you have permission: if you wrote or received the letter, the situation is very different than if the letters aren’t yours. The best option is [...]

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Content Monetization and What it Means for Writers

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Every so often, new words creep into the list that writers have to know. Over the past two years or so, ‘content marketing’ has been one of those terms — the act of using well-written online content, such as blogs, to interest potential customers and keep ‘em coming back. ‘Content monetization’ hasn’t developed the traction [...]

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Keeping Your Volunteer Workload in Line

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I like to think I’m a nice person. In my world, that means taking on some pro bono work, along with generally being available to chat with people who may not be able to afford to work with me but just need some pointers to get them started in the right direction. I don’t think [...]

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Why, Yes, I Have a Company

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For over a year, the business cards I hand out have said, Hyper Modern Consulting on them. It’s been part of my transition from ‘Thursday Bram, freelance writer to the stars’ to ‘Thursday Bram, business owner extraordinaire.’ That’s not the whole picture of my company: I established an LLC early last year to protect myself [...]

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The Writer as Brand

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J.K. Rowling is a brand. So is Stephen King. So are you. In writing, along with most creative pursuits, the brand has to be a personal matter — no matter how many marketers you can afford to hire. Editors hire writers because one individual writer is very different from another. The same holds true when [...]

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4 Ways to Let Chris Guillebeau Rock Your World

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I’ve been a Chris Guillebeau fan for what seems like forever. I’m continually impressed by his abilities as a writer. He’s visited places I’ve only dreamed about. He hangs out with tigers (and the tigers seem to like his book). Those reasons are definitely enough to win me over, but I think that he may [...]

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