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Why Your Hourly Freelance Rate May Be the Wrong Approach
I don’t charge hourly anymore. Let me be more specific: I don’t quote an hourly rate anymore. I don’t really need to. Neither do you. Here’s what I do instead: I quote a per-project rate, or a per-month retainer. Why is that important? Because sometimes the job you’re doing is much, much more than the…
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2 Ways to Keep Your Freelance Business Thriving
Huh. Really. That was my reaction yesterday when I saw another How to Start Your Freelance Writing Business post. I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen a lot of these kinds of posts over the years. Not one of them yet has said anything new. It’s the same general info — find a niche,…
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3 Steps to Finding Better Freelance Clients
It’s February, which means it’s already started for me. Marketing for the upcoming conference, that is. Used to be I’d just blanket the conference lists with email letters of introduction (LOIs). Sure, I got plenty of work out of it. I also wasted a lot of time doing it. From years of marketing to this…
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The Introvert’s Guide to Building a Freelance Writing Business
Don’t you love all the great advice you find on blogs and in articles? If you do all the reading and really absorb what’s being said, you’ll have a great blueprint for achieving a successful freelance writing business. The steps go something like this: Study your market, including prospective clients Write a killer letter of…
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Writers Worth: Turning Fear into Opportunity
Join Paula Hendrickson and me today at NOON ET for another Twitter chat! Use the #WWMChat hashtag and be part of the conversation! It’s been a while since we’ve had a guest post, particularly one that carries forward the theme of Writers Worth. This month, Sharon Hurley Hall returns to the blog to share another story of…
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The Writer’s Guide to Handling Scope Creep
So John hires you to write his website content. The next conversation goes something like this: Oh by the way, could you check all the links to make sure they’re working? Then maybe he adds this: Oh, that survey on there is old. Could you write three more for me? Sorry, forgot to mention this…
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4 Marketing Mistakes Freelancers Make
I was reading through a few blog post articles yesterday when I came across great marketing advice. It was sensible, and it was advice I’d given here a number of times. Yet I wasn’t buying it from this particular blogger. That’s because I’d been the target of one of this blogger’s marketing campaigns. And I…
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Freelance Writer’s Guide to Achieving Goals
A number of years back, I decided to set a reading goal on Goodreads. I was going to read thirty books in a year. I figured I’d reinvent my reading habit and get to some of these thousands of books I have (not exaggerating). I did it. I read 30 books. And you know what?…
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