My Writing Client Questionnaire
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 about their requirements, but I [...]
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Review
Not one finger touched the keyboard in the making of this post. Instead, I dictated the post using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. This is not the first time I have used the software. I first tried Dragon NaturallySpeaking back in the early 1990s. I was writing a dissertation and I wanted to save myself some time and [...]
Free Ebooks From Get Paid To Write Online
I’ve produced a number of series on this blog which I know many of you have found useful. Now I’ve decided to make them available in another format. I now have PDFs of: SEO Your Website Promotion Is Free Making It As A Freelance Writer Freelance Writing Questions That means you can get all the [...]
Be More Productive With OfficeTime
One of my recent writing gigs introduced me to a new piece of software – and now I don’t know how I ever lived without it. It’s called OfficeTime and it’s a time tracking application. There are dozens of time trackers around. In the past I have tried RescueTime, which was great for showing me [...]
Personal Productivity: An Interim Report
I mentioned in my last post that I was doing something about getting organized. To help me, I’ve used two Firefox extensions, GTDInbox and Remember The Milk for Gmail. I’ve reviewed these elsewhere (links are to the reviews), but here’s how they help. Achieving Inbox Zero GTD Inbox makes it a snap to deal with [...]
Writing Research Made Easy – Research Wizard Pro
When Research Wizard Pro (also called Search Accelerator Pro)Â asked me to review their product, I thought I had to check it out. Anything that promised to save me time on research had to be worth a look. They were very efficient in providing an evaluation copy and it took no time at all to install. [...]
WhiteSmoke Review
I must admit to being intrigued the first time I saw an ad for WhiteSmoke software. The idea was simple – this was a piece of software that would improve your written work. Now, you all know how I feel about Microsoft Word – the spelling and grammar check just don’t cut it. so I [...]
Anti Plagiarism Tools
Everyone’s heard of Copyscape, the super duper plagiarism detection tool. Sometimes it’s the bane of our lives (like when clients who pay 1 cent a word want you to check every article on Copyscape even though you KNOW that you never plagiarise). At other times, it’s a useful tool, such as when you’ve subbed out [...]
Posts On Writing
It’s about time for another roundup of posts that made me think in the last couple of weeks. A post on Dosh Dosh about reaching 10,000 subscribers made me wonder whether all the things we do to promote our blogs are really worth it. Dosh Dosh concludes that great content is the most important factor [...]
Top Ten Writing Blogs – Winners Announced
Mike Stelzner has published the winners of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers – 2007/2008 competition. Congratulations to all the winners. There are some great writing blogs there, many of which I subscribe to. Check out the list – there’s plenty of useful information on the writing business.
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