We’ve had some discussions before about the ups and downs of working with Demand Studios. If you haven’t yet looked into this content writing site, or if you’ve been away for a while, recent changes to the site’s policies might make it worth taking another look!
Previously, content editors would rate writers on their grammar and [...]

As we learned last week, there are lots of great formatting tricks you can do with your blog posts if you know a little HTML. There are also a lot of cool things you can do even if you prefer not to mess around with code. Rich text editors (RTEs) are becoming more and more [...]

Whether you’re working on your own blog or Web site or posting to a client’s site, having a few HTML tricks up your sleeve can help when it comes to getting everything formatted the way you want it. Though updates in Web publishing tools have made it easy to post Web content without knowing HTML, [...]

If you’re just starting out as a freelancer, you may not have considered the need to learn HTML. Isn’t that something programmers use? Well, yes, but chances are you’ll be writing a lot of Web content, and that means being directly involved in a Web development environment. Much of your work may be ghost-written articles [...]

The other day I was thinking about the differences between all my clients. I have a handful of clients who pay me $15 for each assignment, which is the same payout as Demand Studios. Now, I know writers sometimes complain about the availability of assignments on Demand, but I usually have no problem finding [...]

With all the job search advice available online, you’d think we’d all be pros when it comes to applying for and securing new gigs. But the Internet abounds with stories about job interview mistakes — from dressing wrong to arriving late to failing to conduct research on the company. Just tonight over drinks, a friend [...]

A lot of freelancing Web sites and blogs have been talking about Examiner lately, and if you’ve been looking for writing gigs, you’ve probably run across their ads. If you aren’t yet familiar, Examiner is a fairly new site that provides geographically specific information on a virtual cornucopia of categories. As of May, Examiner had [...]

Since my writing life lately has been focused on increasing my productivity, I’ve also been examining my work habits in an effort to curtail my procrastination tendencies. I already knew that I am most likely to procrastinate at the beginning of a project. Like AC said in Amping Up Productivity, staring at a blank screen [...]

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 [...]

In the world of freelancing, a big part of your work is … looking for more work. We here at WTF generally discourage the use of any job sites that require you to pay for leads or for a membership. With a little resourcefulness and some determination, you should have no trouble finding quality [...]