Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
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11 Mar 2010Hi guys, welcome to this week’s one and only (severely truncated) job post. I’ve ventured forth from ITP Atlanta to attend the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, so I won’t be back with another jobs post until next week. (And yes, Mama Yo, I’m on the lookout for roofies and serial [...]
If you’ve been keeping up with the Quick and Dirty Guide to Landing Freelance Writing Jobs, Parts 1 and 2 you’ll remember that part 2 was so big I decided to split it in half. Here are the rest of the tips for finding and landing freelance writing jobs.
Make Friends
Are you going to industry events [...]
So you’ve read The Quick and Dirty Guide to Landing Freelance Writing Jobs, Part 1 and you are poised to get started. You have your website up, your unique selling proposition showcased and even your great aunt Myrtle knows that you are looking for freelance writing work.
You’re prepared like Rocky. The championship next great gig [...]
“The Quick and Dirty Guide to Landing Freelance Writing Jobs” encapsulates the entire reason I started this blog. This little series is going to consist of the shortest possible answers I can muster to that age old question, “How do I get freelance writing jobs?”
I started freelance writing and realized that, while there are a [...]
Anybody can slap up a website and claim to be a freelance writer, but clients want proof that you can do what you say you can do. Samples go a long way toward that, but for all a suspicious client knows, they could be plagiarized. Yes, it seems silly that a writer would go to [...]
First off, there is no right or wrong way to land a freelance writing job. Second, this may or may not work for you. Third, I may not have done it this way if I knew now what I knew then. And fourth, that would have been a shame because my very first client is [...]
Every industry has its code words. In real estate, if a listing is a “handyman special,” be prepared to pry the boards off the windows while simultaneously kicking out the former hairy and/or crawly residents. The same is true with freelance writing. Advertisers, especially on the fun sites like Craigslist, have their own special [...]
In my post The Freelance Writer’s Guide to Writing Proposal Letters, I blithely advised to read all ads carefully before applying. I guess it’s time I took my own advice, huh? I misread an ad earlier this week that almost led to quite a bit of wasted time on my part.
I read that a freelancing [...]
I’m recovering from the flu, so while I’m stuck in bed I decided to go through and subscribe to RSS feeds of every major American and Canadian Craig’s List “Writing/Editing” jobs section. It remains to be seen whether this will help me pounce on jobs faster. More likely, this level of connectivity will simply drive [...]
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