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By January 12, 2008

I’ve been reading a lot about freelance writing and money this week. Yuwanda Black’s post on How to Set SEO Writing Rates to Make $250-$500+/Day matched the direction my thoughts were taking. As she points out: You have to make a decent wage to feel good about yourself. While we ...

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By January 10, 2008

As a freelance writer, you can make your life a bit easier by planning the content that you write. It may seem easier to do a brain dump and write whatever comes to mind on a given subject, but that won’t help you to organize it in a way that ...

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By December 30, 2007

I don’t know about you, but I’ve scaled back on work during the last week so I could spend some much needed time with family and friends. However, I can’t stay away from the computer for long and I’ve been paying attention to these posts, which give a guide to ...

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By December 25, 2007

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By December 24, 2007

Yesterday, I posted the best posts of the year, as picked by a handy dandy WordPress plugin, which checks the number of visits and comments to come up with a top ten list. However, I couldn’t help feeling that some of my own personal favourites were missing. That’s why I’ve ...

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By December 23, 2007

The end of the year brings a host of roundup posts, and this blog is no exception. This is the first of two such posts. This one focuses on the posts that have attracted the most readers or comments, as selected by the Popularity Contest WordPress plugin. How to Pick ...

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By December 20, 2007

I don’t think anyone can have missed the ugly grey widget in the sidebar. In fact, a couple of months ago, I spoke about a new traffic builder I’d found, called Blogrush. It looked promising, as I said at the time, and in fact, I’ve had a trickle of new ...

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By December 14, 2007

This year has certainly been a busy one and I’ve made some progress towards achieving my career goals for this year. Not only have I increased my writing income, but I’ve been able to spend more time with my family, helping me to achieve a good work-life balance. One of ...

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By December 4, 2007

If you haven’t written your Christmas articles yet, then it’s probably too late, at least if you’re writing for print. Print publications work far in advance, so if you’re writing for them, you should start planning your Christmas articles in the middle of the year and should deliver them by ...

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By December 2, 2007

Is It Time To Quit The Day Job?: For a lot of us, freelance writing starts out as something we do in our spare time. We write after doing a full day’s work, on evenings, weekends and holidays. We write because we must, because we feel an inner compulsion to ...

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By December 1, 2007

I love spreading some link love, and there’s no better way to do it than to thank all the people who stopped by (many of you several times) to comment on Get Paid To Write Online during November. If there are people you don’t know, check out their blogs. There’s ...

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How To Write A Meaty Article is the latest post on HopeWrites. It’s a meaty article itself, with lots of tips on getting the most out of the content that you write, including the list of article templates. It’s certainly worth reading. Also on my weekend reading list is Elance ...

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By November 29, 2007

Diversification is one of the secrets of a successful freelance writing career. When you find someone who will offer you work, it can be tempting to milk that lead for all it’s worth and do as much writing as possible for one client. While that may help in the short ...

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By November 26, 2007

The Write For Cash blog has an interesting article on Grant Writing and Proposal Writing. I often notice clients looking for this type of writing on Elance and Guru. If you are interested in getting into this type of writing, then be sure to check out this post for an ...

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By November 20, 2007

I’ve been blogging for PayU2Blog for some time now and this is the biggie. The payouts are at the low end – $5 a post – but the work is regular and plentiful, and no blogger could ask for more. When I started blogging with PayU2Blog, I got all my ...

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By November 19, 2007

These days, it’s all about being positive. For freelance writers, it’s about talking up your writing skills and abilities and proclaiming your successes to the world. We don’t often like to talk about failure (ewww – who needs all that negativity to bring you down?) And yet … ignoring or ...

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By November 18, 2007

Jennifer Mattern of AllFreelanceWriting has a great article on Setting Freelance Writing Rates the Right Way. It’s easy for a freelance writer to say – I earned $50,000 at my old day job and I got by fine, so I want to set a goal to earn the same amount ...

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By November 15, 2007

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get discouraged when I send off queries and get no response. Even if you’re an experienced freelance writer, there’s no guarantee that the people offering the work will get back to you. But, as I’ve learned recently, just because you don’t hear ...

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