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All Things Green and Otherwise

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What’s on the iPod: Nothing. Car is in the shop. 🙂 Slieve League, County Donegal What a nice week it’s been! I connected with not one, but three new clients, and I completed a draft and provided another client with an outline. I have yet to actually speak with the third client, but given the…

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4 Places to Spend Your Marketing Budget

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What’s on the iPod: Today’s Cross by Frightened Rabbit New Self-Study Course: Learn how to market and gain clients by attending conferences! Limited-time offer on the 8 Steps to Conference Marketing Success e-course — plus a one-month membership to the 5 Buck Forum! Click here to get started now. I don’t know about you, but it usually takes me…

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Marketing Down a One-way Street Going Up

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What’s on the iPod: Almost Famous by Eminem Special Announcement: Learn how to market and gain clients by attending conferences! Limited-time offer on the 8 Steps to Conference Marketing Success e-course — plus a one-month membership to the 5 Buck Forum! Click here to get started now. I need a few fewer weekends that leave me feeling more spent…

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How to Totally Suck at Marketing

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What’s on the iPod: Eyes Wide Open by Gotye Special Announcement: Learn how to market and gain clients by attending conferences! Limited-time offer on the 8 Steps to Conference Marketing Success e-course — plus a one-month membership to the 5 Buck Forum! Click here to get started now. Interesting day yesterday — interesting in that train-wreck…

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Marketing Rule of Seven: Revisited

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What’s on the iPod: Blue Eyes by Middle Brother It’s been a slow start to the week. I’ve had plenty of time to focus on some marketing, and so far this week I’ve had more responses from potential clients than I had in all of February, what with those 51 LOIs. Pretty cool when their…

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5 Marketing Myths That Are Killing Your Writing Business

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What I’m reading: Setting Free the Bears by John Irving What’s on the iPod: Life by The Avett Brothers March has come in like a lamb. Okay, here it’s more like a cold lamb looking for a scarf, but it’s been mild. Hopefully that will change come Wednesday when we’re expecting what could be a…

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Monthly Assessment: February 2013

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What’s on the iPod: Beg, Steal or Borrow by Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs Rabbit! Happy March. May it be coming in like a lamb for you wherever you are. For those of you new to the blog (welcome!), it’s that time once again to put a little accountability into our actions or lack…

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Writers & Promotion at the Hands of Strangers

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What’s on the iPod: Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright Great news: new low pricing on my ebook, Marketing 365! Loaded with daily strategies that will kick-start your marketing program–just $4.95. Click on the link to the right to get started right now. We’re nearly finished with February — is that possible? Before we wave goodbye to…

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5 Easy Tips to Help You Gain Clients

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What’s on the iPod: Life by The Avett Brothers Some happy news in the writing community: Ashley Festa and her husband are now parents! Little Delia Jane was born February 8th and is a beauty to behold. Congratulations, Ashley and family! Send her some Twitter love today. (@ashley_festa) Thanks to everyone who contributed to (and…

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101 Resources to Rock Your Freelance Writing World

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What’s on the iPod: Peaceful, Easy Feeling by The Eagles Welcome to Friday! Today I have what I believe to be eight hours in which write an article. Hopefully. You never know when a client will call with a new project. Since it’s Friday, I thought it would be fun to share some of the…

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  1. Cathy Miller Avatar
    Cathy Miller

    Wow, Lori. This is a post for bookmarking. Thanks for all the hard work I know it took to pull this together.

    I'm happy to see some favs – like my beloved Creative Copy Challenge. 😉

    I have several others, but I'll just give you a few.

    Toggl – another time-tracking site

    Score – for the business site-advice, business forms, templates

    Overnight Prints – for business cards, postcards, direct mail – cheap!

    Those are just 3 off the top of my head. Thanks again for a great list, Lori! Have a great weekend.

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  2. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    Keep 'em coming, Cathy! Love these. Thank you!

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  3. Sharon Hurley Hall Avatar
    Sharon Hurley Hall

    Great list, Lori, which I'm definitely bookmarking. Here are a few additions:

    EveryTime Zone – for keeping track of timezones

    Aspect Ratio Calculator (ARC) – for figuring out the right size for videos I need to resize

    Remove Line Breaks Online Tool

    Copyscape – Premium Search – anti plagiarism tool

    Flickr Adv Search – for Creative Commons images

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  4. Steve Costello Avatar
    Steve Costello

    Great list.

    For MS Windows users I would add:

    Libre Office instead of Open Office.

    PortableApps.com, so you can use some great free tools from a USB drive.

    After the Deadline – spell checking, style checking and grammar checking.

    These are just off the top of my head. I am sure there are others, but I just can't think of them right now.

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  5. Jake P Avatar
    Jake P

    Wow, this list is astounding, LW!

    Another good free photo site: StockXCHNG, which is owned by Getty Images.

    If you or a client have a great idea, but wonder if it's trademarked or has been applied for, head to TESS. And if you want to get something trademarked, call an attorney that specializes in IP. Do NOT try to DIY or hire a generalist lawyer.

    If you're on a Mac and haven't hooked up a backup drive with Time Machine on it, do yourself a favor and do it today. Even if you have a cloud backup, you will be stunned at how convenient it is, and there's nothing wrong with redundancy!

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  6. Harleena Singh Avatar
    Harleena Singh

    I agree with Cathy here Lori!

    This surely needs to be bookmarked, and is a great resourceful post for freelancers specially. 🙂

    Another 2 free sites for pictures are http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ and http://www.sxc.hu/ – something that I use for my blog regularly – I love them. 🙂

    Other than that you covered it all up, and I hardly use anything other than good old Word, my time and patience.

    Thanks for sharing this with us. 🙂

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  7. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    Harleena, here's the permanent link:
    http://www.wordsonpageblog.com/2013/02/101-resources-to-rock-your-freelance.html And thank you for your additions! Love StockXchang and I'll give the other one a try, too.

    Thanks for weighing in, everyone! Sharon, I love these. I can't wait to try them out!

    Jake! Where have you been, chum? Glad to see you here. Love Stock xchang. Thanks for reminding me! Better photos than MorgueFile in many cases. And I'm off shortly to check out TESS.

    Steve, thanks for your additions! I too love Open Office. Microsoft has done a great job making it easier for us to connect to our work. I'll be sure to check out your other links, including After the Deadline. I've heard good things about it.

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  8. David Geer http://www.davidgeer.com Avatar
    David Geer http://www.davidgeer.com

    I use Rainlendar calendaring and reminder software, Paragon Backup and Recovery, Malwarebytes AntiMalware, PeaZip compression tool, Recuva recovery software, Revo Uninstaller, and a Hosts file to block known bad sites.

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  9. Steve Costello Avatar
    Steve Costello

    Sorry forgot the links:

    Libre Office
    http://www.libreoffice.org

    PortableApps.com
    http://portableapps.com/

    After the Deadline
    http://www.afterthedeadline.com/

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  10. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    David, great to have your input. If it's technology you use, it must be good!

    Thanks, Steve. Appreciate that!

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  11. Samantha Gluck Avatar
    Samantha Gluck

    Although I'm a journalist and (unfortunately) not a creative fiction writer (maybe someday), I love http://www.writingforward.com. They regularly post all sorts of cool writing prompts, quick basic grammar lessons as reminders, and amazing stuff about journaling and cool products.

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  12. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    Great one, Samantha. I agree!

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  13. allena Avatar
    allena

    Oh man, I really want to go through your list and the comments. I'm going to add Dragon Naturally Speaking for those times when you your wrists hurt 🙂

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  14. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    #81, Allena. Don't even have to pay for it. 🙂

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  15. Wade Finnegan Avatar
    Wade Finnegan

    I absolutely love scrivener for my fiction writing. It makes me feel like a real author. 🙂 Great post Lori!

    http://literatureandlatte.com/

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  16. Unknown Avatar
    Unknown

    Great List.

    Here's three more that I use frequently.

    Freshbooks A more professional way to send invoices. Their free account let's you have three clients.

    Backblaze I couldn't use Mozy. It was a pain. Backblaze is $5 a month, and it was easier to set up and use. I have used it for one full restore, so the service works.

    Stripe Take credit card payments online and look like a real business. This is more professional PayPal and less work than Authorize.net. It also plugs into Freshbooks with no hassle.

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  17. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    "Unknown" is actually Matt McCabe. Matt, I'll see what I can do about putting your name on the actual post.

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  18. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    The limitations of Blogger continue. Sorry, Matt. I can't change it myself, but if you'd like to try again, I'm happy to delete the Unknown one once you're successful.

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  19. Carol Wiley Avatar
    Carol Wiley

    PhotoXpress had free and paid photo options. I use this site a lot for free photos.

    Carol

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  20. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    Good seeing you, Carol! Thanks for the link. I'm bookmarking this one as we speak.

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  21. Kimberly Ben Avatar
    Kimberly Ben

    This list is amazing, Lori. Thanks for sharing!

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  22. Meryl K. Evans Avatar
    Meryl K. Evans

    Fab list, Lori.

    – Chrometa for time tracking.

    – Acrobat Professional for filling PDF forms without writing or printing. Great for W-2s (you can electronically sign them).

    – SugarSync to back up files and access elsewhere.

    – Quickbooks. You know.

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  23. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    Kim, glad to see you. Haven't seen your blog update in a while. I was getting worried!

    Meryl, thanks. Glad to see your additions!

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  24. Michael Avatar
    Michael

    Lori,
    I haven't been around much to make any comments on any other posts but this is just an AWESOME list. I can't imagine the time it took to compile this. WOW! Good for you and THANK YOU.

    I never would have found some of these sites on my own. Very, very, very useful even if you're NOT a writer.

    I already have two favorites from the list as I poked through them:
    750 words & Creative Copy Challenge.

    Thanks again for your work. I'm sure these will come in handy at some point.

    Cheers!
    Michael

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  25. EP Avatar
    EP

    That's quite a collection! Very practical stuff there, too. Thanks.

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  26. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    Sorry, everyone: the MorgueFile link was wrong. I've put up the right one. Let me know if any other links don't work.

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  27. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    Michael, don't you know it was work! Thanks. I hope it's of use to you. Glad to see you here. 🙂

    EP, good seeing you, as well! Always a welcome presence. 🙂

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  28. Paula Avatar
    Paula

    Wow! Add me to the list of people who bookmarked this page.

    I hadn't even heard of at least 70% of these sites. There's so much to learn that it truly is mind-boggling.

    My first experience with Google Drive was last week, and went well. A publicist posted a bunch of photos from a photo shoot they'd done for one of my articles. Very simple.

    Thanks for the list – and all of the suggestions in the comments section!

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  29. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    It's not a bad interface, is it Paula? It's not Word by any stretch, but it's great for sharing and collaborative projects.

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  30. Turbonerd Avatar
    Turbonerd

    Since you've already got Clients from Hell at #58, I'll offer something a little more constructive: Elements of Style, the original edition by William Strunk, Jr. Later editions were co-authored by Strunk's student and collaborator E.B. White.

    Some people would argue that this is not the "authoritative" version since it has been deprecated by later editions. Those people are idiots. The English language has not changed THAT much in the last 100 years. Amirite?

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  31. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    I couldn't agree more, Turbonerd. LOVE Strunk & White. It's a must.

    Reply
  32. Mary Isabale Avatar
    Mary Isabale

    Fantastic listing indeed!!!

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