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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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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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There are a lot of great freelance writing blogs out there (including Get Paid To Write Online ) and while I don’t get chance to look at all of them every week, I tend to have a day once every week or two where I go through several blogs and ...

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Before Christmas, I explained that I wasn’t going to set any goals for 2012 until after we’d welcomed in the New Year, taking a step back from my usual way of working. The reason behind this was that I’ve noticed in the past few years that I generally feel different ...

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Over the last few years, I’ve worked in a variety of different roles while being a freelance writer, from an MIS Officer through to a consultant for a technology company. Up until 2011, all of my freelance writing work was carried out on an evening and weekend. It started off ...

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Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic Christmas and are looking forward to a wonderful 2012. Over Christmas, I took the time to look at the blog posts I’d made throughout the year and realised that I hadn’t talked much about activity on social networks, something I ...

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There’s no doubt that Christmas is one of my favourite times of year and as much as I have a lot of fun over Christmas, I always manage to take something away from it that can benefit my writing career. Looking back at the last few Christmases and how I’ve ...

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Each and every year, I always set goals for myself, generally in relation to my working life. Although I’m not going to set goals for 2012 until early January (as discussed in last week’s post, ‘Bucking The End Of Year Trend – Reflecting, But Not Preparing. Yet.’), the end of ...

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Take a look around most freelance writing blogs at the minute and you’re likely to see the same type of discussions – how the last year has gone and setting goals and aspirations for the coming year. Last year, I followed suit. We looked at how 2010 had been and ...

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As easy as you might think it would be to work with writers – there seems to a copious amount of us willing to take on new work! – it brought back memories of when I tried to outsource work a year or two ago and simply put, it was ...

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As soon as December starts to beckon, it seems as though Christmas is only days away. I’ve always been a relatively organized guy who likes to plan and prepare to a certain degree when it comes to business, but around this time of year, I used to always think that ...

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Each writer has their own speciality topics. Some writers state this blatantly and obviously on their website, blog, business cards and e-mail signature, while others don’t explain their specialities, often stating that they’re a general writer. However, whichever type of writer you are, you will have topics and subjects that ...

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I’m going to generalize here.  I know this won’t apply to every freelance writer, but from my experience, it applies to most. When you first start out as a freelance writer, you try and do your utmost to please your clients and not annoy them in anyway. Sure, this is ...

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Being a freelance writer can be a considerably varied career. If you’re a banker, you work in finance. If you’re an IT executive, you work in IT. If you’re a doctor, you work in medicine. If you’re a freelance writer, however, you get to sample numerous different careers and be ...

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Over the last few months, I’ve been doing a lot agency work, both delivering writing projects for agencies and actually working with an agency on more of a consultancy basis. My experience of agency work in the past has been pretty, well, bland. They’ve sent over a project spec, I’ve ...

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One of the reasons why I got into freelance writing was that it appeared to be a career that would give me the freedom and flexibility to work when I wanted and from where I wanted. Ever since I was around 9 or 10 years old, I’ve always wanted to ...

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by Hayden Jackson What does success as a writer look like on Elance? For me, it means working with great clients from all over the world, including worthy non-profit organizations, innovative tech startups, and interesting small businesses. It means only accepting work that pays professional fees. And it means working ...

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Over the last 10 days, I’ve technically been on holiday.  I scheduled a lot of work for the last week and a half to be published automatically, completed work ahead of schedule and although I did end up working a few days due to client appointments, I’ve been able to ...

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