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Growing As A Freelance Writer: 3 Stages

Lately, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the different types of freelance writers: I see some major differences between freelancers, to the point where I think there are three separate stages of freelance writing. How long you’ve been in the game doesn’t really affect what stage you’re in, though: it seems to be [...]

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A Problem With PayPal: Don’t Pay Any Extra Fees

Lately, even my biggest clients have paid via PayPal. It’s an easy way to handle payments for freelancers, allowing you to accept payments without needing to wait for a check or hand out your banking information. Today, though, I’ve heard some worries about PayPal from several freelancers: seemingly overnight, the payment processing service added a [...]

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The Right Price For Writing

A lot of writers hem and haw if you ask them about their rates. I’ve often thought that we consider how much we charge a state secret. The truth is that we think announcing a set rate is going to lose us business. Furthermore, we all make exceptions on a regular basis: if we think [...]

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Is Freelance Writing Lucrative?

I received a question last week that I’d like to share with you: I recently got word that my job will soon become eliminated. I am also a writer and considering going freelance but thought I’d ask you first, is it lucrative? And I mean lucrative in the way of money, not free time or [...]

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Security: The Other Reason to Run A Business

Occasionally, I feel like a broken record, encouraging writers and other freelancers to concentrate on building a business. I encourage all of you to build income beyond just straight writing, and not just because you can significantly increase your income that way. It’s also a matter of security. There are times when freelance work just [...]

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Evangelizing Freelancing

I was chatting with a friend of mine this afternoon who has been having some trouble find work. I, of course, recommended picking up some freelance work. I know that the guy in question is a decent writer, but I’m slowly realizing that I probably would have recommended freelance writing to him even if I [...]

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