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A new year often feels like a new beginning – a time to make a fresh start on achieving your personal goals. In order to make that process more successful, you need to wrap up the loose ends from the year before.

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Note: Most of the first half of this appeared in my last newsletter. If you’ve already read it, scroll down to read my plans for the coming year. Tracking Writing Milestones Although I firmly believe in keeping track of achievements during the year, the end of the year is a ...

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Guest post by David Smith The means to measure your writing success has evolved tremendously in the last ten years. Writers used to measure their success by being published and having a book with their name on it. These days a writer with a great portfolio and the ability to ...

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Speedos, surf shorts or boxers? When clients hire you for writing jobs how would you describe the writing brief?

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This guest post has been submitted by Alex Toll of the Research Writing Center. It is increasingly common for freelancers from abroad to take over jobs formerly occupied by individuals in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. In some cases, this situation is called “job transfer”. A sizable number of countries ...

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It’s been almost three months since I started writing here at Get Paid To Write Online. Over those three months I’ve tried to provide posts on topics that will be interesting and entertaining, giving you something to think or talk about. Although it’s easy to think that in a writer-reader ...

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My writing business has changed a lot since I started freelancing. Then, I did lots of one-off jobs for a wide range of small clients, getting many of them through copywriting agencies and the occasional job board posting or ad. Now, I work for a few bigger clients, and many ...

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If you follow me on Twitter (or simply realised due to my lack of comments), you’ll be aware that I’ve been away for the past week. We – my girlfriend and I – have a lot of family in and around London and try to get down there as often ...

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When I sat down to think about this, my first post for Get Paid To Write Online, I was trying to think of a topic that all writers could relate to.  A topic that everyone reading it could have an opinion on. I sat for a while, pondering exactly what ...

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Is your writing career serving you or are you serving it? This was the question that occurred to me about my own writing career after reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (yes, that is an affiliate link). Put another way – what is the goal of your freelance writing ...

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Would you believe it’s been nearly three years since my last writing link love fest? Nor could I, but the evidence is there.  This is something I always plan to do more often, but I never seem to get around to it. The posts listed here are posts I’ve shared ...

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For every action there is a reaction and your reactions will impact your professional life. One of the benefits of working from home is the lack of dealing with a huge amount of office politics. But, (sadly) this doesn’t mean you’ll never have to deal with people acting like idiots ...

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Are you using a client questionnaire? I’ve been using one for a few months now and Taylor’s post on How To Please Your Client Every Single Time reminded me that I’d planned to tell you more about it. Like many writers, I’d been running my writing business by asking clients ...

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Some time ago one of the people I worked for asked me for my CV so they could put it on file. I agreed and searched my desktop for an up to date version of the document. To my surprise, the only version I could find was last updated in ...

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Got freelance writer’s block?  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been affected by it. It most often comes when you’re under the gun with a project deadline, doesn’t it? Sometimes it happens when you get burnt out on a topic. Read on for some tips I’ve used and ...

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Recently, Dana Prince wrote a couple of helpful posts (5 Ways to Fill a Freelance Writing Schedule Gap and Five Ways to Get Writing Jobs Fast) about finding work online when you experience a slump. These posts got me thinking about the many places you can look offline for leads ...

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Are you managing risk in your writing business? Some food for thought…

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At the start of the year one of the things I decided was that I would review my writing business regularly to help me with planning.  I had already looked at freelancing income in the past and made some decisions based on that; now I was looking ahead. In order ...

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