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Review: The Progress Principle

Officially, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work is geared towards bigger businesses. Its authors, Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, focused their research on creative teams within much bigger organizations — the guys who do R and D work for a big corporation, for instance. But while the [...]

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Review: The Wealthy Freelancer

When I first received a review copy of The Wealthy Freelancer, by Ed Gandia, Pete Savage and Steve Slaunwhite, I have to admit that I could have been a little more excited. I’ve seen plenty of ‘get rich quick’ schemes targeted at freelance writers and the book’s cover made me wonder a little bit: it’s [...]

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Review: The Urban Muse Guide to Online Writing Markets

When Susan Johnston offered me a review copy of The Urban Muse Guide to Online Writing Markets, I got pretty excited. Part of the reason was that Susan is a phenomenal freelancer, with bylines all over the place. But there’s another reason — she was writing specifically about online markets. I like print markets as [...]

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Review: The Winning Proposal

The number of clients that turn to bid sites to find freelance writers is huge — and it continues to grow. Freelance writers have to know how to handle bid sites, even if they don’t depend such websites for the majority of their work. The sites aren’t difficult to understand. You just put in a [...]

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Review: The Principles of Successful Freelancing

There’s a lot of information out there on how to start freelancing. For some new freelancers, though, hunting down all that information can be a bit time-consuming. That makes an ebook like The Principles of Successful Freelancing, by Miles Burke, a great resource. Burke started from his own experience as a web designer — he [...]

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Review: Market This

As you might have figured out last month, I’m very interested in marketing — especially when it comes to the opportunities available for freelancers and small businesses. In part, that’s because I think that marketing such a business has to be different from marketing a larger business. Market This!: An Effective 90-Day Marketing Tool, by [...]

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Review: Fearless Confessions — A Writer’s Guide to Memoir

In general, I don’t review a lot of books on writing techniques, preferring to focus on business techniques. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t read them — and that they aren’t valuable to freelance writers. I think it’s important to have a wide variety of writing skills at are disposal, beyond the standard copy [...]

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Review: Get Known Before the Book Deal

I’ve been working on a review of Get Known Before The Book Deal for a couple of days now. Normally, when I’m reviewing a book, I tear through it, write down my review and post it. With Christina Katz’s new book, however, I wound up taking longer than I expected to read 263 pages. That’s [...]

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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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