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  • Writers Worth: Your Start-to-Earn-Now Freelance Writing Career Guide

    Writers Worth: Your Start-to-Earn-Now Freelance Writing Career Guide

    It’s here! Welcome one and all to the 9th annual Writers Worth Month celebration! Stick around — there’s a ton of great content heading your way thanks to some of the best freelancers in the business. What you’ll see here all month: You’ll see guest posts from successful freelancers, from beginning freelancers, and from freelancers…

  • Monthly Assessment: April 2016

    What I’m listening to: Lola by The Kinks Friday already? I feel like I was busy, but not much got accomplished. I did get an interview in yesterday and got a good bit of one article completed. But then I thought I’d try that Five-minute WordPress Install. Two hours later, I gave up before I…

  • Handling the “Do You Write This?” Question

    Handling the “Do You Write This?” Question

    What I’m listening to: The Loneliness and the Scream by Frightened Rabbit Just 5 more days until the start of Writers Worth Month! Bookmark this blog, subscribe to the updates, and don’t miss a single post! Free advice from some of the most successful freelancers working today! After a short lull in the workload, the…

  • How Your Customer Service is Killing Your Career

    How Your Customer Service is Killing Your Career

    What I’m reading: The Son by Jo Nesbø What I’m listening to: The Woodpile by Frightened Rabbit I had a great start to the week. A writer friend asked me to talk with his freelance writing class about what I do all day. The class was a great group of young adults who asked really…

  • Mid-Friday Marketing: Think Like Your Clients

    Mid-Friday Marketing: Think Like Your Clients

    What I’m listening to: Sometimes It Snows in April by Prince On May 1st, we start Writers Worth Month 2016! For one month, this blog space will be dedicated to helping writers at all career stages realize their value and learn to charge what they’re worth. Make sure to subscribe to the blog email list…

  • Getting Beyond the Writing Sample Question

    Getting Beyond the Writing Sample Question

    What I’m listening to: The Lines of the Cars by The Airborne Toxic Event In just a week and a half, we start Writers Worth Month 2016! For one month, this blog space will be dedicated to helping writers at all career stages realize their value and learn to charge what they’re worth. Make sure…

  • One Marketing Strategy That Can Boost Your Writing Income

    One Marketing Strategy That Can Boost Your Writing Income

    What I’m listening to: Harvest Moon by Neil Young I was off most of last week (not totally unexpectedly), and fortunately, the work that came in could be moved to this week. My cousin was in town, and I was entertaining her until somewhere around 8-9 pm every day. I had some work that couldn’t…

  • 9 Incoming-boosting Strategies for Freelance Writers

    9 Incoming-boosting Strategies for Freelance Writers

    What I’m listening to: Hands in the Air by Timbaland What a weekend. I’m nearly over whatever virus it was that whipped me all last week. Reluctantly, I agreed to go to the Tartan Day Parade in Manhattan on Saturday. It was a wet, cold day that I’d prepared for, but my hands were frozen…