Freelance Jobs

Ask Me Anything: Organizing Teams

Julie Rains asks, How to organize teams with social media and technical expertise? As freelancers, we often work on teams. It’s not out of the question that we’ll wind up putting together and leading our own teams. As a writer, it’s not uncommon to have a client bring you a project that may need some [...]

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Ask Me Anything: Work Samples

Laura Renegar asks, If asked for work samples, how many should you send? My standard number for sending out work samples is to send three top-notch pieces, along with a link to my portfolio so that if a client wants to browse through and look at more of my work, he can. I try to [...]

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Ask Me Anything: When Clients Delay Projects

An anonymous freelance writer asks, I’ve been writing for a website for over a year (technically). At the end of last year the site was being overhauled and apparently there was a huge hiccup that still hasn’t been resolved. I typically sent my articles in batches, and the site hasn’t been updated in several months. [...]

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Review: The Urban Muse Guide to Online Writing Markets

When Susan Johnston offered me a review copy of The Urban Muse Guide to Online Writing Markets, I got pretty excited. Part of the reason was that Susan is a phenomenal freelancer, with bylines all over the place. But there’s another reason — she was writing specifically about online markets. I like print markets as [...]

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Got a good excuse for not filing your taxes?

I know there are some creative writers around here and, while it’s short notice, this contest may be up someone’s alley. There’s only a few days left before your tax return needs to be in the IRS’ hands — but if you’ve got a great reason why your 1040 won’t be ready, Outright is offering [...]

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Is There Anything You Refuse to Write?

In general, there’s very little I will refuse to write. There are certainly types of projects that I prefer to take on. I also know that there are certain kinds of writing that I’m just not particularly good at, so I tend to avoid them. But there aren’t a lot of projects that I simply [...]

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Ask Me Anything: Finding Contact Information

Sara asks, I have a question about finding contact information for websites. I suppose I never really gave much thought to who contributes the content to websites, but now I realize that writing for sites can be some nice extra income. The problem I’m running into is finding contact information for submissions. I’ve tried using [...]

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4 Tips For Landing That First Client

Landing that first big client or market can be tough for a beginning freelancer — you put out article after article, spend hours on marketing and even try some cold calling and it still doesn’t seem to snap. But sticking to it is an absolute must. After all, you won’t ever land a client or [...]

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Automate Job Listings: It’s All About RSS

Every morning, I browse through more than a hundred job listings from a variety of websites. When I first started out, the process could take me more than an hour: opening a whole bunch of book marks, sorting through emails and so forth. But I’ve got a secret weapon that drops that time down to [...]

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Comment Response: Three Thoughts

I write for a lot of online markets: blogs, publications and other places that post articles. Most of the sites where my work is published allow comments — when they don’t outright request them. That means that there are a whole lot of responses to my writing out there that I have to decide whether [...]

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