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Finding New Freelance Income

Posted on September 19, 2024 by lwidmer

I sit here nearly three years out from the most prolific, stressful writing years of my entire freelance writing career. From 2020 through much of 2022, I was so busy I had no time to enjoy anything. These days, I have pared down the client list to three trusted, long-term clients who are wonderful to […]

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Your Freelance Career Speed Bumps

Posted on March 11, 2024 by lwidmer

If you look online long enough (two minutes), you’ll find ample evidence of why some freelance writers are still struggling with running a successful freelance business. I present Exhibit One here, a writer who, upon attempting to identify the roadblocks to their success: My credentials don’t align with straightforward career trajectories. (They go on to […]

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Freelance Shorts: Random Advice to Improve Your Writing Biz

Posted on June 8, 2022 by lwidmer

With summer bearing down, it’s a great time to reassess your freelance writing business. Anytime is a good time, but if things are slowing down or you’re needing to step away, use the time to find better footing within your business. Since it’s also a time when my life goes into vacation mode and utter […]

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1 Top Freelance Switch for Better Clients

Posted on May 6, 2022 by lwidmer

I saw an article promoted last week on Twitter that was labeled “excellent” by the poster. It was writing-related, so of course I clicked. Should have saved my digits the energy. It turned out the article was the basic beginner freelancer stuff. Not that there’s a single thing wrong with helping freelancers get started. I […]

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The No-bullshit Freelance Income Stream Guide

Posted on January 21, 2020 by lwidmer

Know what I’m sick of? Empty posts full of keywords that are meant to get traffic, not help the reader. That was my experience yesterday when I went searching for ways for freelance writers to create multiple streams of income. I’d read Diane Parkin’s post about how she’d employed an Income Octopus Method two years […]

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