In all walks of life, it’s so unbelievably true; I’ve encountered it in many different forms, and I’m sure you have too.  You get started on something, and at first, it’s thrilling.  There’s a new relationship, a new goal, a new dream, and you’re taking those first shiny steps in a new direction.  Yet as [...]

I’ve never had a job that required tapping into my intuition as much as freelance writing does. With a 9-to-5 office job, your tasks and processes are typically laid out for you. But when it comes to looking for freelance work and securing more clients, the process is anything but black and white. With all [...]

As writers, we should all be constantly looking for ways to improve our skills, but during the summer, you’re more likely to be taking vacations, time off, and spending time with the kids and the family.  The freelancing life is best geared toward people with a lot going on in their lives (flexible hours, yay!) [...]

As some of you already know, I lost my full-time job in April, and have been working on building my freelancing business with the intent to write full-time. The past few weeks have been an often frustrating and very educational experience that has ultimately shown me I still have a lot to learn, but have [...]

Karen wrote a really interesting article this week about Time Management, outlining what’s important, urgent, both, or neither.  It got me thinking though, because a lot of the time, I feel like my personal time management gets so much more complicated than that.
For example, I’m terrible in the mornings, I don’t like other people (that [...]

Lately I have been listening to a recording of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, in which Stephen Covey describes the four quadrants of time management. Covey states that all activities can be classified as to whether or not they are important, and whether or not they are urgent. The key to successfully managing [...]

We work from home, coffeeshops, moving vehicles, or soccer practices.  We are masters at canceling out noise and distraction, feeding off the kinetic energy around us and channeling it into productivity.
But you know what, even we need a break!  We need to own it; even people that work 9-5 in offices aren’t working the ENTIRE [...]

Last week we discussed the importance of using targeted keywords for improved search engine optimization. Today I want to look at another important factor for SEO: backlinks. Backlinks, or inbound links, are links from other pages to your Web site.
Working with backlinks requires a basic understanding of Google’s PageRank algorithm. Google assigns every Web page [...]

Guest Post by Fellow Freelancer Yolander Prinzel
Have you ever witnessed Kmart sending cashiers to help out at the local Wal-Mart when they are short staffed? Have you ever watched a salesman tell a client that their store doesn’t carry what the client wants at the price the client is willing to pay, but that another [...]

I’ve been having lots of interviews lately, and with freelancers, it’s all about that phone interview, because hey, we telecommute.  We’re footloose and fancy free.  It’s part of the deal.  But what are the differences between phone interviews and in person interviews, and how do we master them?