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The Return of the Freelance Leech (and how to protect yourself against one)
It happened again. I was on a social media site a while back and I accepted a connection request. “Hi Lori! Thanks for accepting my connection! Hey, I have a website and I really need someone to critique it…” Seriously. On first contact. It’s like being proposed to on the first date. No, wait. It’s…
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Casting a Narrower Freelance Net
What I’m listening to: Love My Way by Psychedelic Furs Show of hands: how many of you have a specialty? (just tell me in the comments — I really can’t see your hand) For every one of you who has a hand up, there’s more than likely that many ways in which you got there….
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Marketing Monday: Meeting Clients’ Needs
What I’m listening to: Rx (Medicate) by Theory of a Dead Man I had a great post for you last week for Marketing Monday. And somehow, I never posted it. I just put that sucker in the Drafts folder and quickly forgot about it. So here it is this week. I hope it was worth…
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This Job, Not That Job
What I’m listening to: Die Like A Rich Boy by Frightened Rabbit It’s been a few months since we’ve done the This Job, Not That Job tribute to the worst jobs of the moment. It’s not for lack of material. Today’s candidate for the Worst Job on the Internet comes via Jenn Mattern. Jenn spied…
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8 Ways to Bury Your Freelance Writing Image
What I’m listening to: Hanuman by Rodrigo y Gabriela I spent the last two days working like mad to get some client work finished – I wanted to head west and bring my mom back here for Easter. But she’s decided she’s staying put this year. She’s really struggling with getting back to a normal…
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Free Advice Friday: The Words that Spell Doom to Your Freelance Writing Career
What I’m listening to: Ghost in the Machine by Our Last Night “Terms are terms. They aren’t good or bad until we add context.” That’s the argument I received after objecting to someone’s use of the term “liberal snowflakes” to describe my Facebook video of the recent snowstorm. It seems I made it political by…
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Excuses that Kill Your Freelance Writing Career
What I’m listening to: Telescope by Starset Today, I call bullshit. For every writer out there with their own particular brand of excuse that explains why some of us make it as writers and they don’t, I’m calling your bluff. This particular head of steam started on a forum discussion. On it, the advice being…
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Marketing Monday: Revamping Marketing Content
Late post today — mostly because I’d thought I’d written one, but found it wasn’t quite finished and I’d left it in my Draft folder. Today is your new year. Tell that to yourself any time you think you need to restart, but are waiting for some magical date or time to do so. Today…
