I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get discouraged when I send off queries and get no response. Even if you’re an experienced freelance writer, there’s no guarantee that the people offering the work will get back to you. But, as I’ve learned recently, just because you don’t hear anything it doesn’t mean that [...] [...more]
Ever wished you could keep getting work from the good clients you already have? Referral marketing is the name of the game for freelance writers and I show you how I do it in my latest guest post on Michael Stelzner’s Writing White Papers. It’s called: How To Get More Work From Existing Clients. Related PostsSetting [...] [...more]
Today, I’m interviewing Darrell Laurant, of the Writer’s Bridge, a new service for writers: Q. Darrell, tell us a bit about your background. A. I’ve been a journalist for more than 30 years, working for newspapers in New York, South Carolina and now Virginia. I’ve also done a lot of freelancing, taught college courses in creative writing [...] [...more]
It’s been just over two years since I first signed up with Google Adsense. Like most people, when I first put Adsense on my first blog, I thought I would soon be earning large sums of money, but it didn’t happen. In fact, two years on, I’m still not making that much money on my [...] [...more]
October’s been a great month for this blog. We’ve now got a PageRank of 3, have more than 100 regular feed subscribers, and had almost 6,000 unique visitors to the blog last month from around the world. Thanks to all those who took the time to drop by and leave a comment in October: Dana Prince Laura Jen [...] [...more]
If you’ve read Writing Lab News this morning, then you’ll have noticed that the link to Break It Up: How To Write A Good Ending is broken. Sorry for the mix up - that site is still in transition. Here’s the real link. Related PostsNo related posts [...more]
Freelance writing work can be seasonal, which means that there are times when you just don’t have enough work. However, instead of worrying about this, you can use that time productively to help your writing career. Here are a few suggestions for what to do with down time. Tidy Up Your Resume When you’re busy every day, [...] [...more]
Writing keyword fodder isn't always easy, especially when you've written 70 article of a batch of 140 and are losing the will to live. So what do you do when the creative well has run dry? [...more]
This is part 2 of my Mega Link Love Fest: Going Beyond the Blog - How to Extend Your Blog from ProBlogger Blog Tips Blogs and Leveraging the Search Tail from Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Succeed The Balance Between Handling Business Queries vs. Doing The Actual Work from Freelance Folder How to Launch a Blog Network from [...] [...more]
I subscribe to about 150 feeds in my reader, most of them about writing and blogging. But I often fall behind when it comes to sharing the link love. Now, thanks to Firefox and Greasemonkey, I’ve been able to download all my starred items in one go. Some of these go back to March, [...] [...more]
