Archive for the ‘Freelance Writing - General’ Category
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Excerpt from Everything You Wanted to Know about Freelance Writing and from The Six-Figure Freelancer.
Many businesses fail because the owners do not clearly define their services and identify their target market(s).
What does defining the services I offer, and what does identifying my target markets, have to do with writing?
You ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Registration opens soon for online video archive of sessions about getting work with the federal government and marketing your business (including using social media)
Organizers of Communicating for Cash, a two-day series of professional development workshops for writers and other content creators in Atlantic Canada and beyond, are heralding it a ...
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
How to Interview Someone (with Michael Enright). CBC Radio’s Michael Enright sits down with Tod Maffin to talk about how to interview someone, how to be interviewed, and he confesses his most embarrassing interview moment. A must-listen for anyone who makes podcasts or are interested in radio. Listen here.
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Excerpt from The Six-Figure Freelancer: How to Find, Price and Manage Corporate Writing Assignments
The twin fears hold so many writers (and others) back.
Fear of failure is easy to define. It is the fear that you will do something, like market your writing services, and fail to generate any business. ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
We interrupt this freelance writing blog for an oil spill rant.
I have been involved in a few discussions where people are angry with BP, and blaming BP, for the oil spill in the Gulf. While I get the anger and the blame, I don't get the fact that people don't ...
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
I was walking the dog on the Sunnyside boardwalk on Sunday, nursing a miserable spring cold and sore throat, when I saw a sign for Popsicles at one of the concession booths. The sign didn’t actually say “Popsicles.” It’s said “Rockets,” but the illustration was definitely that of an icy-cool ...
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Why is the lead of an article important?
If you don’t capture your reader’s attention in the lead, chances are your article will remain unread. If you don’t capture your editor’s attention, chances are your article will not be published (or you will have to revise it).
In addition, if you produce ...
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Note: I am not a tax expert, nor do I purport to be one. You may want to seek advice from an expert before you act on any tax matters.
Believe it or not, now is a good time to plan for next year's taxes.
I know, you've just gone through ...
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Saturday, May 1st, 2010
I will be conducting 2 seminars at the Communicating for Cash 2-day workshop for freelance writers in Sackville, NB - July 9 - 11.
Seminar 1: Search Engine Optimization
Seminar 2: Marketing your Freelance Writing Services
In total, there will be six super workshops relating to writing for money and how ...
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
The Freelance Writing & Business Communication blog is taking a short break from the usual action you'd find here to ask you to help support my sister's ride to conquer cancer.
Or as my sister Ruth writes on her help conquer cancer page:
"As you may know, my father, John ...
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