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Ask Me Anything: Invoicing and Client Leads

On Thursday, I mentioned that I was in the process of sending out invoices on Twitter. Katharine O’Moore-Klopf asked, I’m curious why you prefer invoicing on 1st of month rather than at end of each gig. For me, it comes down to the types of projects I work on. Many of my clients I work [...]

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Review: Using the Social Web to Find Work

Chris Brogan is offering up a free e-book, titled Using the Social Web to Find Work. I think this is a topic that freelance writers absolutely need to pay attention to — most of us take on at least some online work and we all know that the good paying gigs aren’t likely to show [...]

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Social Media: The Freelancer’s New Best Friend

Universal McCann completed a survey of social media recently and discovered something very interesting: despite the problems with the economy, social media is going strong. The numbers of people consuming social media are going up. (More information on the survey itself is here.) While not all writers are social media gurus — and vice versa [...]

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Pros and Cons of Content Sites

We’ve all done it: we’ll find a site that promises to publish our short articles and pay us either a small flat fee or from some sort of advertising scheme. These sites are content with 400 word articles and don’t care too much about style, as long as there aren’t obvious typos. Some can even [...]

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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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5 Sites to Find Freelance Jobs

No writer wants to spend hours a day sorting through Craigslist ads offering tiny compensation for big projects. But there are plenty of places that do a lot of the work for you, and make a freelance writer’s life so much easier. Freelance Writing Gigs. I know I mentioned yesterday that Deb Ng’s site is [...]

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Offering freelance writing estimates

While writers who work with magazines and such won’t run into the idea of estimates too often, those writers who work on corporate communications projects — something like writing an employee handbook springs to mind — will often be asked for an estimate. Estimates are straightforward things, right? You multiply your hourly rate by the [...]

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Alternative tactics to generating income

You’re a freelance writer, right? You spend all day chasing after contracts and jobs, which can be fun in it’s own way, but isn’t perfectly stable.  I’ve talked before about passive income, but today I want to try thinking outside of the box for ways to make money off our writing. How can we use [...]

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