Is Old School a Bad Thing?

I keep thinking back to last week’s cross blog and forum discussion regarding residual websites. When I suggested freelancers make sure the end justifies the means when writing for a living, I was written off by another community as being “old school”. It’s suggested that I don’t know a thing about the way [...]

5 Ways to Step Away from the Freelance Job Boards and Create Your Own Freelance Writing Opportunities

You know what I did yesterday? I contacted a webmaster out of the blue to see if he could use my writing services. His website content hadn’t been updated it a while and there were so many typos it served to detract rather than encourage. So I wrote him a very [...]

Catch Deb Tonight as Part of the Hot Summer Seminar Series

Hi all,
Kelly McCausey’s Hot Summer Seminar Series has been going strong now for several weeks. Each week a different momtrepreneur gave a talk about her chosen area of expertise. Tonight I will talk about freelancing as a blogger and writer. If you haven’t already enrolled in the series, there’s still plenty of time. It will [...]

Comcast Customer Service: How Not to Reward Loyalty

My husband and I have been talking about upgrading our cable service for some time.  When Comcast began offering their new Triple Play packages (phone, digital cable, Internet for a low price) we decided to take advantage. I called several times to ask about the various packages and each time very helpful customer service people [...]

Success Stories: Darren Rowse

Many of you know Darren Rowse as the famous “ProBlogger“. I can tell you Darren is much more than the man behind the blog. He is kind, funny, generous with his information, and someone who I am proud to call “friend.” I met Darren last fall and he’s just as warm and genuine as you’d [...]

Free Webinar: Marketing Strategies with White Papers

Every time my friend Michael Stelzner hosts a webinar he gets an amazing turnout. My biggest regret is that I get so caught up in what I’m doing I put off writing about them here until the very last minute. So today I’m giving you a week’s notice.
Mike is offering a webinar next week called [...]

A, B, C’s of Good Customer Service

I’ve been thinking about good customer service a lot lately. I don’t think it matters what kind of work you do, every freelancer needs to be professional and responsible. Freelancers without good people skills and the ability to keep clients satisfied won’t go very far.
Here are my A,B,C’s of Good Customer Service
Attitude – When it [...]

What is a Client?

I’ve been taken to task.  Apparently when I encourage writers not to enter into a job with a “Oh well, I can always quit” mentality, it doesn’t apply towards a certain group of people working for a certain group of web content sites, because you see, web content places aren’t clients.
In fact, this same group [...]

Web Content Sites: Do You Have Job Security?

What do these names have in common?

Write for Cash
The Vines
Garden & Hearth
Fine Tuning
Know More Media

These are all web content or blogging sites that don’t exist anymore.
What do these names have in common?

Suite 101
b5Media
Lifetips
Today.com
Creative Weblogging

These are all content or blogging sites that have changed the pay scale for their writers numerous times.
Things change…
Yesterday’s discussions regarding residual [...]

The “Oh well… I can always quit” Mentality

When I wrote today’s  earlier post regarding residual sites, I was going to touch on the whole “Oh well, I can always quit” mentality some writers have when applying for jobs. It didn’t take me long to realize I had so much to say on the topic, it warranted its own post.
Again, you may hate [...]

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