Featured, Income Sources, Winning Jobs
How to Make Money From Your Site
A few weeks ago, we debated the pros and cons of monetizing your site. Today, we are going to review some of the essential ways to succeed in making money from your site for those who come down in support of the issue. While most people think that monetizing a site is all about ad [...]
Featured, Uncategorized
Productive Versus Busy: Know the Difference
These days, everyone has a very busy and hectic schedule. But something we often forget amidst all this busyness is that being busy and being productive are two totally different things. And while they go hand in hand sometimes, being busy is not synonymous with being productive. Confusing this fact causes strain, stress, and worst [...]
Featured, Income Sources, Queries and Applications
Write for Magazines
This is actually a field I’m looking to break into myself, so A) this is not a how to article, and B) I would love –LOVE!–to hear your experience in the field. What this article will be, however, is a bit of a compendium of all my research here to date. So first, I wanted [...]
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Creating your best personal workspace
We’ve been talking about productivity on this site quite a bit. Nacie wrote a great post on 18 ways to improve your productivity, AC wrote about evaluating your personal work preferences in terms of environment and work approach, and I previously tackled the time-management matrix. When you’re freelancing, your income is directly dependent on the [...]
Featured, Productivity
Ten Tips for Better Time Management
When you’re working for yourself — especially if you’re working in a home office — good time-management skills are crucial. Temptations are everywhere, and there’s no middle management wandering around to dissuade you from hopping on Facebook and taking a quiz … or ten. The following are some time-tested time-management tips to help you stay on [...]
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Enough to Go Around
Posted on 19 October 2009
Hey Freelancers…Worried that the freelance writing world (particularly the online writing world) isn’t big enough for everyone? Well Jodee Redmond, master freelancer, disagrees – check out her awesome post The Freelance World: Big Enough for Everyone here! Continue Reading
Freelancing Life, Winning Jobs
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle (Your Online Writing)
Posted on 24 September 2009
Just like in the real world, cyberspace has started to have some issues with waste buildup. Once pristine websites, search engine results, and collective information platforms have gotten junked up over the years, and now it seems like the valuable content out there more often than not gets lost in the shuffle. E-Waste is a [...] Continue Reading
Income Sources, share your voice
Share Your Voice: Amy Saunders
Posted on 22 September 2009
Tips for Finding Your Niche Are you searching for your freelance writing niche? It took me a long time to find where I belonged in the writing world. Out of college, I explored technical writing and magazine writing. But neither option suited me. Eventually, I stumbled upon copywriting. But even that led me down unexpected [...] Continue Reading
Clients, Uncategorized
Monetizing Your Site
Posted on 15 September 2009
The eternal question of webmasters – especially freelance writing webmasters – is, “To monetize, or not to monetize?” Adding advertisements to your site can bring in a hefty bit of extra income (provided placement and traffic is where it needs to be), however there are questions about its appropriateness on writer sites. Today we are [...] Continue Reading
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Taking Days Off: A Labor Day Study
Posted on 08 September 2009
In the last post, How to Stay Healthy Working from Home, one of the suggestions given was to be sure to take weekends to prevent you from getting run down. Well, the past few days I did just that, and would like to report on what it was like to take a real weekend, from [...] Continue Reading
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Share Your Voice: Lynda Forman
Posted on 02 September 2009
When Can I Call Myself a “Real” Writer? Though some might think a computer is a writer’s best friend, this is not the case. I don’t know about you, but doubt has been my constant companion ever since my first writing assignment. I’ve doubted my abilities, my bookkeeping, my future, and even my motivations for [...] Continue Reading
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