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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

WAHMs: Make Sure the End Justifies the Means

I began visiting the WAHM.com WAHMs Who Write board years ago. I found it to be a great place to share ideas and commiserate. I met and networked with so many wonderful moms and dads, and I still have terrific relationships with many of them to this day. In fact, I started this blog because [...]

A Little Late June Weekend Link Love

I’m remembering back in the day when I used to be able to stoke up my feed reader and check out my favorite blogs each morning with my first cup of coffee. Good times. Nowadays, I have so many favorite blogs it’s impossible to get them all in during a cup of coffee’s worth of [...]

Success Stories: Patrick O’Keefe

I met my friend Patrick O’Keefe at the South by Southwest Interactive conference this fall where we were both speaking and I interviewed him for BlogTalkRadio. We met online sometime before that, however. Through Twitter we discussed community and social media and Patrick asked if I would like to read and review his terrific book, [...]

Who Sets Your Freelance Writing Rates?

Did you know many freelance writers won’t give a rate quote to a client and would rather the client set the rate? There are many reasons for this:

The freelance writer doesn’t know what to charge
The freelance writer is afraid of bidding too low
The freelance writer is afraid of bidding too high
The freelance writer is unsure [...]

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