In my last post in this series I answered Rachel’s question about why I decided to freelance. However, wanting to go freelance doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea to just jump ship and do it. Rachel also asked: ‘Should a young freelancer like myself try to get a stable job so I can [...] [...more]
One aspect of freelancing that always stymies new writers is how to set the right rate for the freelance writing job. In fact, even experienced writers who are bidding on a new area might have difficulty. A post the other day on rates for blog posting provoked some discussion. There are a few resources that [...] [...more]
I’ve been reading a lot about freelance writing and money this week. Yuwanda Black’s post on How to Set SEO Writing Rates to Make $250-$500+/Day matched the direction my thoughts were taking. As she points out: You have to make a decent wage to feel good about yourself. While we may all occasionally take on projects [...] [...more]
As a freelance writer, you can make your life a bit easier by planning the content that you write. It may seem easier to do a brain dump and write whatever comes to mind on a given subject, but that won’t help you to organize it in a way that makes sense. Planning does not have [...] [...more]
I don’t know about you, but I’ve scaled back on work during the last week so I could spend some much needed time with family and friends. However, I can’t stay away from the computer for long and I’ve been paying attention to these posts, which give a guide to ways of managing your writing [...] [...more]
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Yesterday, I posted the best posts of the year, as picked by a handy dandy Wordpress plugin, which checks the number of visits and comments to come up with a top ten list. However, I couldn’t help feeling that some of my own personal favourites were missing. That’s why I’ve collected this list of 12 posts [...] [...more]
The end of the year brings a host of roundup posts, and this blog is no exception. This is the first of two such posts. This one focuses on the posts that have attracted the most readers or comments, as selected by the Popularity Contest Wordpress plugin. How [...] [...more]
I don’t think anyone can have missed the ugly grey widget in the sidebar. In fact, a couple of months ago, I spoke about a new traffic builder I’d found, called Blogrush. It looked promising, as I said at the time, and in fact, I’ve had a trickle of new readers from it. However, it [...] [...more]
This year has certainly been a busy one and I’ve made some progress towards achieving my career goals for this year. Not only have I increased my writing income, but I’ve been able to spend more time with my family, helping me to achieve a good work-life balance. One of my new ventures this year was [...] [...more]
