Freelance Writing Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions

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At Freelance Writing Jobs we strive to provide you with the best information possible about starting your freelance writing career. With so many posts offering tips and advice, it can be hard to find useful information that’s not on the front page of this blog. Since we receive a lot of email asking for [...]

More on Freelancing, Blogging and Giving Out Free Information

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At SXSW last weekend I had a chance to attend a small, intimate gathering made up of many of the top writing bloggers and social media professionals in the space. We had an interesting conversation regarding email and how many people write to us on a daily basis requesting advice. Most of us described [...]

10 Turnoffs Keeping Readers from My Blog

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Reader feedback is a blogger’s most important tool. By reading comments, emails and survey results pertaining to our blog, we’re receiving valuable information. Stats also provide a gold mine of information.
For the most part, the feedback received regarding the Freelance Writing Jobs blog network is extremely positive. However, that doesn’t mean the negative feedback [...]

3 Lessons Learned from Yankee Doodle

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“Yankee Doodle went to town,
riding on a pony,
stuck a feather in his cap
and called it macaroni.”
I must have sang “Yankee Doodle” at least a thousand times over the past 45 years and never really gave  a second thought to its meaning. Today, while attending a second grade social studies presentation about the beginnings of [...]

Are You (Ab)Using Your Online Friends?

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Does this sound familiar?
You’re an aspiring blogger looking to make yourself known in a popular niche. All the blogging books and blogs tell you in order to do this you have to network heavily including commenting at other top blogs to bring in traffic. You do. You don’t just comment you become THE top [...]

Asking Questions VS Confrontation

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Overheard at the supermarket: “I don’t like the way they do things over there. I’m going to give them a piece of my mind. There’s going to be a confrontation.”
To be fair, I don’t know what prompted the above-referenced quote. It stuck in my mind for a variety of reasons, the first is that [...]

Your Turn: What Makes a Qualified Freelance Writing Blogger?

In the past few weeks I’ve received a flurry, no a barrage, of angry emails asking why I’m qualified to be a freelance writing blogger.
Though I don’t quite get the anger, I’m happy to receive these questions because it means writers and aspiring writers are thinking about who to trust and that’s always a good [...]

Demand Studios Announces Editorial Advisory Board

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This is another Demand Studios blog post. If you’d rather not read about them, feel free to move on. We won’t be upset, we promise. I do feel this is important news, otherwise I wouldn’t bombard you with two DS posts in the same week.
Full disclosure: Demand Studios is a sponsor for this blog. [...]

Demand Studios Announces eHow Premium Article Writers to Recieve $80 per Article

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Full disclosure: Demand Studios is a sponsor of this blog. However, I am in no way obligated to blog about them on a regular basis,  tweet about them or comment on other blogs about Demand Studios. I feel this is a cool bit of news and thought I’d get it out to you. That [...]

Scribe SEO Review for the Technically Challenged

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As a technically challenged blogger I’m always interested in tricks and tools that enhance my bloggery and make it look as if I know what I’m doing. So when Brian Clark launched Scribe SEO , a tool geared towards assisting SEO idiots (like me) in optimizing their blog posts, I decided to give it [...]

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