What’s First In A Freelance Writer’s Day?

April 25, 2013

Does this sound familiar? You get up, grab coffee or tea and do all the things you need to do before you get to your computer to begin writing. When you finally sit down to start work you have hardly any idea what you need to do first. Or, if you have created a list [...]

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8 Ways To Push Through The Fear Of Writing

April 23, 2013

I recently wrote a post called Sometimes Our Fear Of Writing Is Telling Us Something Valuable. Several people agreed, but valued reader and fellow writer Jorge Kafkazar pushed back in comments, saying: I don’t think it’s always as clear cut as that, Anne. Sometimes the fear is a feeling that the writer is not up to the [...]

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Sometimes Our Fear Of Writing Is Telling Us Something Valuable

April 18, 2013

I got a call from a former coaching client the other day. She wanted to talk about how afraid she was to start writing a book she felt she should write. As talked about the book, it seemed to me that while the idea was decent, she was spectacularly unenthusiastic about it. I asked her [...]

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Should Writer’s Sites Even Accept Guest Posts?

April 16, 2013

Not long ago I ran into a someone who knows a whole lot more about marketing with search engines (read: google) in mind than I do  and he said something that led me to do this search: does google penalize guest posts? Darn! Right up at the google results is (tenses can sure be confusing online – [...]

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7 Ways To Lose New Freelance Writing Business And Never Even Know It

April 11, 2013

I’ve been doing some cold calling recently and have been fairly horrified at eight things that I know turn away potential new business even before any contact is made. You can make sure you’re not turning off potential freelance writing clients by avoiding these mistakes: The phone is answered by someone on a cell phone and the [...]

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Test Software That Makes Multiple Tweets Easy And Get It Free For A Year

April 9, 2013

A month or so ago Nick Holmes, who works for Ecko, contacted me and offered a free years membership in the twitter retweeting product to anyone who makes a suggestion here to improve Ecko. He wrote this guest piece to introduce the concept. Next time you publish new content and hit Twitter to shout about [...]

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One Freelancer Discovers Twitter Trend Marketing – A Guest Post

April 5, 2013

Twitter recently celebrated its’ 7-year anniversary.  The Social Media site is a virtual everything in one.  News, weather, sports, and socialization are available all in a screenshot. Recently I have begun to experiment with using Twitter in a more efficient way when it comes to advertising my writing.  It involves deploying the use of trends [...]

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Why I Didn’t Fall for the ‘Make Hundreds of Dollars on Your Next Blog Post’ Sales Pitch

April 2, 2013

Being a freelance writer is not easy. There’s often a lot of hustle on my part with no follow-through on the other end as most editors are overwhelmed with too many people pitching them too many ideas. I get that; it’s part of the process of being a freelancer and something I accept in order [...]

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Colons and Semicolons: A Tutorial – Grammar & Usage

March 26, 2013

Our monthly column on grammar & usage by Allison VanNest and her team at Grammarly. The semicolon is a polarizing piece of punctuation. For some, it seems redundant because a period or a comma may suffice in its place. Others believe that the semicolon is irreplaceable because it allows authors to make subtle connections between ideas. Regardless [...]

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Writing Coincidences Really Do Happen

March 21, 2013

When I was writing about copyright recently I didn’t expect to have an example about how two bloggers can have the same idea so soon, and with my partner, Lori Widmer  in the 5 Buck Forum! First, go look at my 5 Times A Freelance Writer Should Say ‘NO!’ To A Client. Now look at the image on [...]

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