Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
The third edition of the The Six-Figure Freelancer: How to Find, Price, and Manage Corporate Writing Assignments is now available as a paperback book and e-book (PDF file). Revised and improved, the third edition includes more ideas, more detail, more examples, more inspiration and more exercises. When it comes to ...
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010
The new and improved second edition of Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing is now available. Everything You Wanted to Know About Freelance Writing, combines two books in one: The Six-Figure Freelancer: How to Find, Price and Manage Corporate Writing Assignments & Business of Freelance Writing: How to ...
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Sunday, August 1st, 2010
The 15th edition of Wordstock will be held on Saturday, Oct. 2, at the Ryerson School of Journalism, at the corner of Gould and Church Sts. in Toronto. After a few years of dabbling successfully in the new journalism tools and styles, this is a retro version of Wordstock. It ...
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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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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, 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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Monday, May 10th, 2010
If you are like me, a person who knows nothing about wiring (I once stuck a screwdriver into a live socket to remove a broken light bulb, but fortunately lived to tell the tale), you would call a licensed electrician the moment you were faced with a wiring issue.
Why is ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Excerpted from Business of Freelance Writing: How to Develop Article Ideas and Sell Them to Newspapers and Magazines
Rather than having a "who, what, where, when and why" (W5) lead that delivers the news, the feature article lead is meant to draw the reader into a longer, more leisurely (sometimes contentious) ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
5 Ways to Prevent Your Writing From Becoming Stale
By Anna Mille
If there are better jobs than being a freelance writer, I’ve yet to come across them. Yes, I’m certainly biased because I love my profession, but there are a few downsides to being a full-time writer too, the biggest of ...
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