Herding Cats I’m back at my home office. Yippee! I love being onsite at client locations, but I always feel like my home “ship” is adrift and in danger of sinking. The last three days have been spent getting back into the workflow and tying up a lot of loose ends. Man, it feels good…
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A Reason to Finish That Novel Thanks to writing chum Audrey over at www.writershelper.com, I was alerted to this great writing contest: http://firstchapters.gather.com/ The beauty of this one – first prize is having your book published by Simon and Schuster! If ever there was a reason to finish your book, this is it.
Easy Job for the Write Person That was the way the ad was worded, I swear to you. And this was no employer trying to be cute – this was an ad trying to justify the low payment. In fact, I’ve compiled my Top Five Clues that it’s a low- to no-pay gig. Look for…
Later That Day… I’ve been asked to be on a panel discussing corporate responsibility in communication. Very cool. Yet when I look around my own little existence, I see so little of either corporate responsibility or corporate communication. Wait – make that effective corporate communication. See, I take onsite work. As someone who is literally…
More Enjoyable Ads “Looking for an editer to type noval must have great typeing and spelling willing to pay anything” And people wonder why we get snappy when we’re not paid well, eh? Oy.
The Telltale Ad Know how to tell the ad you’re reading offers no pay? A few clues: It’s loooooong It’s requiring applicants to have more experience than most CEOs at major corporations It’s offering payment at some future date (note: you’ll never see that payment) I saw a super-long ad on Craig’s List today that…
How to Tick Off a Contact and Act Like a Jerk in One Short Sentence Maybe I’m just overly sensitive, but I got this note today from a PR rep regarding an idea for my newsletter. Things were going well – and I liked him – until he responded to my email about circulation. “You…
Marketing Dilemmas On Anne Wayman’s About Freelance Writing site, someone from another country asked how to market oneself when making cold calls and follow-up calls to marketing mailings aren’t feasible due to distance. This was after I’d suggested reading Peter Bowerman’s The Well-Fed Writer and following it verbatim. A good question, and one that deserves…
Heads Off the Desks, People! Fab-u day today. I took time off from the on-site job long enough to catch up with projects. Managed to crank out what I think is a pretty decent draft on a highly-technical article for a client. Why do I love the business techie stuff so much? Maybe because it…
New Year, New YouYea, we all do it. We make resolutions during the shiny hours of a new year, but somewhere around March, things are back to status quo. So why bother making resolutions? Because at least it’s a step in the right direction. So go on – make your resolutions. It’s a confirmation of…