Month: October 2020

Free Advice Friday: Your Freelancing Questions, Answered

Posted on October 23, 2020 by lwidmer

It’s Friday, we’re all stressed, so let’s just keep it light today, shall we? Over the 17 years I’ve been freelancing full time (plenty of part-time freelancing before that), I’ve received questions. I’ve asked them, too. Some are always the same: “How do I get started?” (Which, quite frankly, takes volumes to answer, so please, […]

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The Freelance Writer’s Survival Kit

Posted on October 21, 2020 by lwidmer

I think it was as I was lying down to sleep, still talking about work at 11 pm, that I realized I have a problem. I’m overworked to the point of not being able to shut it off at the end of the day. And for those of you who are new to freelancing or […]

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Meaty Monday: Is it Time to Switch Your Freelance Focus?

Posted on October 19, 2020 by lwidmer

You know that feeling when there’s a big old pandemic that’s ground everything from airlines to client work? What am I saying? Of course you know. You too are living through the train wreck that is 2020. While airlines being grounded is frustrating for a lot of us (I’m missing two trips to Scotland this […]

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The Rise of the Volunteer Freelance Gigs

Posted on October 15, 2020 by lwidmer

In case anyone missed this, we’re in a bit of a tight labor market. Too many workers, not enough work. Unfortunately, that means there is also an equally disturbing increase in job listings aimed at freelance writers that are abominable at best. But there’s an uptick in yet another disturbing facet of the “get writing […]

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The #1 Client-generating Freelance Marketing Boost

Posted on October 13, 2020 by lwidmer

Because I was on vacation last week (and far too busy the week before to get another post up before I left town), I missed all the great comments you’d left on my last post about the notion of a “going rate” in freelancing. So I took the time yesterday to reply to each of […]

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Friday Frank Talk: The Myth of the Freelance “Going Rate”

Posted on October 2, 2020 by lwidmer

Sharon Hurley Hall, who is one of the smartest freelancers I know, said something the other day that made me nod my head in agreement so much I thought I’d sprain my neck. It’s about this notion of a “going rate” in freelancing. This came up in a discussion on a private forum about yet […]

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