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Speed Up Your Blogging Learning Curve

There is a lot of trial and error in blogging — it’s the way that most of us learn what works and what doesn’t. The only chance we get to speed up the learning curve is when we can sit down with bloggers who are further ahead of us in some way. Of course, convincing [...]

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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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An Accidental Talk: ‘Blogging for Dollars’ at Bar Camp San Diego

I flew out to San Diego last Friday to see my husband, who happens to be working out here this summer. I found out that BarCamp San Diego was Saturday and Sunday — I’m a fan of BarCamps and other small sort-of conferences because they’re almost always free and you get to hear from a [...]

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Women, Technology and Blogging: Happy Ada Lovelace Day

Today is Ada Lovelace Day. Bloggers all over the world are taking a few minutes to acknowledge the contributions of women in technology and science — women like Ada Lovelace, who managed to write the first computer program and dream of a world of advanced computers while Charles Babbage was still trying to get his [...]

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Ask Me Anything: Payment for Blogging Gigs

An anonymous writer asks, I was recommended for this blogging gig for a brand-new site (it launched about 2 weeks ago). I finally talked to the company president last week to discuss content, focus, all of those things. I asked him about pay. He said they’re still working on the best way to go about [...]

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Bloggers for Hire

The Wall Street Journal published an article this morning, titled, “America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire.” It’s already gotten a good chunk of attention (including a response from the writer meant to address a number of concerns with the original article). It focuses on some figures, based primarily on a report from Technorati and a [...]

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Blogger For Hire: Can You Make Money?

A big chunk of my freelance writing income these days comes from writing blog posts. I’ve found it pretty easy to find positions blogging — as long as you have a pretty solid online presence yourself. But there’s trouble in Paradise: the money from blogging isn’t always that great. The Per-Post Trap It’s not uncommon [...]

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The State of the Blogosphere

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere Report for 2008 is out, and things are pretty positive for those of us who make our livings by stringing words together. According to the report, blogs are pervasive and a part of our daily lives. They’re mainstream. Many businesses have them, and those companies without blogs on their websites [...]

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Where to Start With This Whole Writing Thing?

A reader sent in a couple of questions this week, specifically about where to start if you want to move into writing for money. I think that these aren’t exactly uncommon questions, so I decided to post my answers here. How do you make money writing a blog? There are a couple of different approaches [...]

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You’ll Only Do Better…

…if you expand your skill set. Just like I keep saying, the more you can do, the better your payoff will be. If you can submit good photos, you’ve got an edge. But other skills are rapidly becoming more important. Folio announced this morning that, in the last year, digital initiatives are up 33 percent. [...]

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