goals

My Writing Bucket List: The 5 Goals that Make Up My List

As a writer, I’ve set myself some goals over the course of my career. Some I’ve accomplished, some I’m still looking forward to. These aren’t always goals that I can just get out there and achieve, of course. Several of them are steps that I have to work my way up to in steps while [...]

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7 Things Every Freelance Writer Should Do Before The End of the Year

We’re getting pretty close to the end of the year, but there are still a few things that may make the difference in how your business does in 2010. Talk to your accountant. I handle most of the bookkeeping for my business myself, but I pay my CPA to handle my income tax return as [...]

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Day 1: Setting Your Goals

You can leap into marketing, hand out business cards like crazy and try out every new tip. Sometimes it will get you new business and bring in additional income. More likely, though, is that you won’t really be sure if it’s done any good. The problem is that without a clear idea of your goals, [...]

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Setting Goals for 2009

As I said last week, I’ve been developing a couple of side projects that I’m pretty hopeful about. I think that they have a lot of potential — but they’ll require a lot of work from me, as well. It’s a little harder to do what needs to be done for each of my projects [...]

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Freelancers vs Entrepreneurs

I’m a big fan of Seth Godin‘s. He’s a brilliant marketer, and he knows how to make the most of the web. A couple of years ago, he made an e-book available, for free, called the Bootstrapper’s Bible. Yes, I’m a slowpoke. But it’s not outdated, and his words haven’t stopped making sense. There is [...]

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Goals for 2008

Rather than make resolutions for the New Year, I’m planning out some goals. Most have to do with the quantity and quality of my writing, a few have to do with traffic and marketing of my blog. One is even a set amount of money I need to bring in each week. There’s one that [...]

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Upcoming Goals

I’ve found that telling people about my goals gives me an added motivation to meet them. After all, I don’t want other people to think that I’m slacking off. I’ve been making it a general practice to announce my goal for a daily word count on this blog, and to (at least most of the [...]

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