Month: September 2021

How to Lose a Freelance Client Prospect in 4 Moves

Posted on September 22, 2021 by lwidmer

We talk a lot about how to find and win over potential clients for our freelance writing life. What we don’t talk much about is probably more important — How you might be losing that client before you even win them over. But Lori! I sent out a letter of introduction! I told them all […]

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We Should All Be Anti-Racism Writers

Posted on September 20, 2021 by lwidmer

Are you sick of racism yet? I don’t mean sick of talking about it — I mean sick of it being. Every single white person I know has heard the same things I’ve heard: racist remarks that demean another culture, race, or religion. I’ve heard it since I was first able to comprehend what was […]

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Clarifying Your Freelance Writing Project

Posted on September 15, 2021 by lwidmer

I saw this tidbit in Michelle Garrett’s newsletter this week: Did you hear the mic drop right there? Or was that your head nodding wildly? I know for me, it was the moment I went “YES, thank you.” Because like you, like nearly every single freelancer who has ever worked for a client, I have […]

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A Freelance Decision You Don’t Want to Make (but should)

Posted on September 8, 2021 by lwidmer

Something happened a while back that’s been sticking in my mind. It’s not one of those “Look what that nasty client did to me” events, either. It was subtler than that. If I hadn’t been paying attention, I wouldn’t have noticed. It was when the work outpaced the pay. The client was a fairly new […]

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Freelance Game Plan: Creating Simple Freelance Systems

Posted on September 3, 2021 by lwidmer

Welcome to September. It’s been a wild month here, and it’s only the 3rd. Hurricane Ida came through yesterday, and we spent the afternoon removing some of the ten inches of rain that found its way into the basement. With that amount of water in a short amount of time, there was no way we […]

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