Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
As my favorite freelance writer Yolander Prinzel says, if you are a full-time freelance writer, then you are a business owner first, writer second. It’s very important to stay in that business owner mindset when doing everything from marketing your business to collecting the fees you are owed, but it is especially important to keep [...]
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21 Oct 2009I have a question for all of you freelance writers/fiction writers out there. Do you use your published fiction as a sample in your writer’s portfolio or not? I’m especially interested in responses from freelance writers who mainly deal with business clients but write fiction on the side.
You see, I’m asking this question for a [...]
…Did you? Excellent. Because now it’s time for you to start getting actual work done. If you are one of those people who keeps their email open all day, I guarantee that, if a mad scientist hooked little clocks up to your brain, he or she would find that you are wasting literally hours per [...]
I have some exciting news. I was invited to speak at the University of Georgia’s Magazine Club next month! I’m going to talk about the ins and outs of freelance writing, getting started in a freelance writing career, and my own favorite way to earn scratch – corporate blogging for pay.
Now, I covered [...]
I’m a subscriber to the Women Day by Day blog authored by our very own SpecialtyBuzz guest, Maryan Pelland, and this week she posted an interesting interview with a woman who has started a criminal background check service for online daters called Sweetheart Checks. Being a one-track-minded workaholic, I immediately applied such a service to [...]
Of course it doesn’t, but that’s not to say that freelancers should turn down a great opportunity just because there’s no pay. And I don’t mean answering one of those blind Craigslist ads offering “exposure.” I’m talking about strategically advancing your business goals through volunteering your services.
I’ll use myself as an example. I am currently [...]
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 [...]
I like to say, “yes.” I like to give encouragement, advice, and even the occasional bracing hug. (But only if I know you really well, so don’t get any ideas.) I also intend this blog for beginning freelance writers, baby birds with your beaks open, chirping away for small, slimy worms of wisdom to sustain [...]
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