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Ask Me Anything: Rates, Cold-Calling and Contracts

Ashley Festa asks, What are the must-haves in your writing contracts? While I’m pretty flexible about contracts with my clients (I generally use a letter of agreement), there are a couple of things that I find especially important to have in writing with my clients: The money: It may seem a little obvious that I [...]

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Ask Me Anything: First Steps and Contracts

We have two very important questions this week. Scott Cheatham asks, What would you say is the best first step for someone wanting to enter the world of freelance writing? There are a lot of first steps that I could suggest for getting started as a freelancer: picking a niche, setting up your bookkeeping… Plenty [...]

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Ask Me Anything, Edition 4

What do you do about stolen content? If you write a blog or post articles online, stolen content has become a part of life. There are scrappers who copy entire RSS feeds from blogs and repost the work as their own, while other content thieves just lift individual articles. It’s a particularly frustrating situation because [...]

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