You’ve tried all the stuff below, yet for some reason one or two of the steps are either not working or are impossible for you to get around to doing, make you cringe in fear, don’t sit well, feels like begging, etc. Maybe you need to work around those blocks with someone who knows how…
Tag: finding work
Marketing 101: The Approach
Now that you’ve located your potential clients, it’s time to make contact. But how? I would strongly advise against contacting folks only through email. Why? Emails are easy to delete and even easier to filter into a Spam box. You need to make sure someone at the appropriate level sees it. We’ll be using email,…
Marketing 101: Finding the Clients
We’ve already established that we’re not finding work online. Just get that idea out of your head right now. So, that begs the next question – where are we finding them? Well, er… online. Let me clarify – we’re not finding jobs online anymore. But the clients are there, and they are waiting for us…
The Changing Face of Freelancing
Time for some frank talk – we’ve been in this business long enough to see the trends unfolding before our eyes, right? Even if you’ve been in freelancing a year, you’ve seen it. You may not recognize it yet, but you’re definitely experiencing it. It’s the way we find our projects. For a few years…
Job Listings – November 27, 2007
The Sound of Money Dripping Is anyone else finding the work drying up around them? I’m sitting here looking, yet nothing seems to be out there. There are a few nibbles, but again, thanks to the insane amount of competition (see this post and this post for that rant) no one’s taking the bait. Most…
Work is What Happens
When You’re Busy Making Other Plans…I apologize profusely. Normally, I’m here almost daily. For me to let this much time pass between posts is just wrong. The reason? Work. Yes, that four-letter word once again foiled my plan to do what I’d rather be doing. It’s why my count on the Nano contest is so…
How to Know You Need a Bigger Shovel
OrSpotting the Bad Job Listings Sometimes, they just make it easy for you. There’s the ad that offers you a whopping $4 an article or the one that will pay you $200 to edit a 50,000-word book. But sometimes the lousy job listings aren’t so easy to spot. Unless, that is, you speak bullsh$t and…
Writer’s Rates
Thanks again to Anne Wayman’s forum for another lively discussion about pay. This time, the discussion centers around how much you should expect to earn as a freelancer. Interesting topic, for there are as many right answers as there are writers, I suspect. The original poster, Yuwanda Black of Inkwell Editorial, was offering her e-book…
Temporary Highs
Over on Nikki’s blog, she laments the “freelance” part of our careers. As she puts it, it sometimes feels like a temping situation. In fact, she’s right – it is. Like I was saying before, nothing in this world is permanent anymore. We have offers from people who are dying to buy our services on…
Get a Job!Tips for Beginners Each day I wake up one step away from what my husband said was the worst poison ivy case he’s seen in a long time. Today, things are much less weepy (both physically and emotionally), and I’m able to type without stopping to blot my arms. Disgusting thought, but try…