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Freelance Offer: Fame & Fortune or Bait & Switch?

Posted on May 31, 2024 by lwidmer

Randy Hecht is the consummate writing professional. She runs a very successful freelance business, Aphra Communications, and works with international businesses handling technical and shareholder-facing content. But even the most professional freelance writer runs into things that are inexplicably awful. Randy and I often compare notes behind the scenes regarding freelance life, clients, lousy gig […]

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Your Freelance Biz’s Biggest Legal Threat

Posted on August 10, 2021 by lwidmer

Struggling freelancers, freelancers who are doing well — let’s talk. In an unsettling exchange that another freelancer shared with me, a beginning writer was asking for some advice and feedback. Normally, those “feedback” requests get ignored because if every one of them were answered, who would get any paying work done? But because my friend […]

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