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Why Freelance Writers Need to Care About Design
By Brandon Yanofsky Have you ever picked up a book and started reading just because the cover was interesting? If you have, you've experienced firsthand the power of design. Beautiful books just beg to be picked up and read. Likewise, your website's visitors are more...
How an Unpaved Road Led to Freelance Writing Success
An experience I had on my recent vacation reminded me of what it takes to be a successful freelance writer: We were visiting a lake in eastern Washington with our three kids plus one tag-along, 10-year-old friend of our middle child's. We wanted to spend our last day...
Telling Stories: How Freelance Writers Can Earn Big From Case Studies
by Carol Kaemmerer Do you like to tell stories? Case studies tell the story of how a customer used a product or service, and their great result. Companies like to use them because they're an effective marketing tool. That's also the reason they pay well for case...
This is Why You’re Not Making Money as a Writer
By Sean Platt Let's face it, most online writers struggle to survive. They start out with stars in their eyes, imagining easy dollars earned. Sure, they have a way with words. But writing online is hard, harder than they expected. In little time, they find themselves...
7 Reasons Why I Won’t Write a $15 Blog Post
I'm on vacation this week. I wrote this back in 2009, when I was answering a lot of online job ads and struggling to keep my income up as the economy tanked. It created controversy in some quarters, and became a rallying cry for others. I'm sad to see how relevant...
How 1 Free Article Caught My First Big Writing Client
By Erika Gimbel As a freelance writer, I agree with Carol's Velvet Rope theory: value your work and don't agree to low-paying assignments. So why did I spend more than seven hours writing an article for free to land my first client? How my client found me As I got in...
The 7 Habits of Highly Paid Freelance Writers
I am on vacation this week. Here's a classic post that originally appeared on my caroltice.com blog. Enjoy! Now that I've been helping other freelance writers to earn more for a while, I've realized there are some behavior patterns struggling writers have in common....
Will the Luck Fairy Bring You a Freelance Writing Gig?
Do you sometimes feel like other writers have it easier than you? They tell you about the great clients they have, or the national magazine article they just wrote an article for...and you feel like it's unfair. You think: They're lucky, and I'm not. I just need to...
8 Great Tools for Successful Freelance Writers & Bloggers
Behind the scenes of every successful freelance writer, there are tools that make their business more effective and time-efficient. Tools for finding leads, keeping their writer website running smoothly, and tracking queries, expenses and payments. I'm often asked...
How One Freelance Writer Kicked Content Mills and Earned Big
By James Patterson It was February of 2010. I walked in the door and my wife immediately knew something was up. "I've been let go." The words rolled off my tongue and didn't sound real. I had been let go from my corporate writing and public relations job, the first...
Transform Your Blog into a Paying-Gig Magnet in 7 Steps
You can use your blog posts to attract paid blogging gigs. Good-paying ones, too -- not $20 a post. Ever wonder what company marketing managers and publication editors look for in a personal blog, when they're checking you out and thinking about hiring you? I've done...
What Freelance Writers Can Learn From a Corny Old Movie
I watched a great old movie with my two sons recently -- Angels in the Outfield (not that old, the 1994 version). What's a kiddie baseball movie have to do with being a successful freelance writer? Everything. In case you haven't seen it, the story concerns a boy in...
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