networking

Ask Me Anything: Networking for Clients and Setting Rates

Kristina Viera asks, How do you know what to charge? Deciding how to price your work is one of the hardest part of freelancing. There are so many different factors that can affect your price — your own experience, your location, what type of clients you’re interested in working with — that it’s impossible to [...]

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Ask Me Anything: Finding Time, Following Up On Leads and Networking

Kathryn Lang asks, I want to know how you end up with eight hours for writing. I have yet to be able to make that happen around my home. Maybe I should just run away. Some freelance writers struggle to schedule around day jobs. Some struggle to schedule around kids. There are plenty of other [...]

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Marketing Is More Than Landing Clients For Freelance Writers

Marketing is more than landing clients. It’s more than who will ask you to work on a project — it affects who YOU can ask to work on a project. Today, I had a milestone in my writing career: I’ve been writing for some decently well-known websites for quite a while, including one which occasionally [...]

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Day 18: Go to Conferences

Depending on your niche, you may not find more than a few clients who fit your ideal market locally. But you may be able to find a place where a whole bunch of your ideal clients happen to be hanging out. No matter what you typically write about, there is a conference for it — [...]

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Day 17: Attend Local Events and Groups

Just about every town has some sort of local organization dedicated to promoting business, like a Chamber of Commerce. These organizations routinely put on events with the goal of helping local business owners connect and network. The idea is that by promoting local businesses to work with each other, the local economy will grow. That’s [...]

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My Night Out with Brazen Careerist

You know that Brazen Careerist logo on my sidebar? Yeah, that one. It’s a link to a whole bunch of bloggers who talk about the challenges and opportunities of being a Gen Y member of the work force. On Wednesday night, I got the opportunity to meet a bunch of the other Brazen Careerist bloggers [...]

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PodCamp DC, and more on writing and networking

On a similar theme to last week’s post on why freelance writers need to create relationships with new people, I’d like to talk about the great people that I met this weekend. I went to PodCamp DC on Saturday: one day’s worth of sessions about new media (podcasting, blogging, etc.) and I had an amazing [...]

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Writers Shouldn’t Eat Alone

I finished reading Never Eat Alone a few weeks ago. I haven’t reviewed it until now because I’ve been trying to implement some of the suggestions made in the book. My immediate response to Keith Ferrazzi’s book was complete enthusiasm. I do think this is a book that every writer needs to read — we [...]

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Write Your Own Elevator Pitch

Maybe you’re at a conference, or maybe you’re just waiting on a ride, but you strike up a conversation with the person standing next to you. What do you say when he asks what you do? Trick question. I hope you didn’t answer with “I’m a writer,” because this guy now thinks that you’re working [...]

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It’s all about who you know

Finding ideas and stories is something that most writers constantly think about. And considering just about everyone has a story to tell, it can be as simple as talking to a neighbor or a friend.* When you’ve written all the stories you can think about from your immediate circle of acquaintances, though, it may feel [...]

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