February 2012

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By February 29, 2012

This month’s Word Carnival topic is a doozy – it’s ‘the biggest thing I learned last year’. Can you imagine how challenging it is for a polymath like myself to pick just one big thing I learned in the last 12 months? Often for me, learning is incremental – made up of ...

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By February 24, 2012

by Jennifer Stakes Roberts ‘It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.’– J. R. R. Tolkien  Writers could pen volumes on the subject of procrastination, especially if they are supposed to be working on something else. Doubly so if there’s a looming deadline. Often, we argue to ...

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By February 22, 2012

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of time working around the topic of consumer complaints.  Although it might not seem like the most interesting of subjects on the surface, the truth is complaint management – particularly within large organizations and those regulated by the Financial Services ...

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By February 17, 2012

Follow some of the discussions by writers about writing on LinkedIn or on some writing forums and you’ll soon realize that there’s a feeling among at least a few professional writers that creating content for the web is not real writing. Even Harper’s Magazine got into the act a while ...

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By February 15, 2012

Yesterday was supposedly the most romantic day of the year (at least if you’re in a relationship!) and people all around the world will have bought their loved ones cards and gifts to reiterate just how much they love them. I always like to compare freelance writing to aspects in ...

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By February 13, 2012

Most freelancers began their career working for someone else. You had (fairly) regular hours, and a dependable paycheck. Wouldn’t you have noticed if your paycheck was wrong, late or missing? Wouldn’t you have raised a ruckus, demanding your pay? You had earned it after all. Why don’t you give yourself ...

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By February 8, 2012

Last week, I started this two part series on increasing your freelance writing rates by explaining the first two steps in my three step process – reviewing your existing rates and being able to justify an increase. Today, I’m going to explain what I do after I’ve reviewed my existing ...

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By February 6, 2012

by Lior Levin Every blogger, at some point in their writing career, gets a little stumped when it comes to finding something great to write about. In the beginning, ideas are flowing like crazy. But at some point, between wanting to be completely original and yet wanting to drive tons ...

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By February 3, 2012

I’m so pleased to welcome Anne Wayman as a guest poster on Get Paid to Write Online, since I’ve been following her writing blog for years. Today she shares her views on must-haves for a successful freelance writing business. Ask a dozen people, or do a search on the ‘net, ...

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By February 1, 2012

For most new freelance writers, writing rates are arguably the most complicated and frustrating part of their new career, for a variety of reasons. Thinking back to when I first started freelancing, the primary reasons why it was such a headache topic for me were firstly because I had absolutely ...

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