A Few More Words About this Whole Demand Studios Insurance Thing

I was up for some time last night thinking about the reaction to the announcment that Demand Studios was offering affordable health care coverage to their freelance writers. To be honest, I’m perplexed by the reaction. I’ll always expect more than a few people to direct negativity in Demand Studios’ direction, but I didn’t expect [...]

Demand Studios Announces Health Care Options for its Freelancers

Demand Studios made the announcement today that they are offering health insurance options to their freelancers. Though we touched upon this one month ago, the freelance writing community has been waiting with baited breath to learn the details.  Some even wondered if it’s too good to be true.  As this is unprecedented, I can understand [...]

Writing Tip of the Day: Ask

I just had an interesting Skype chat with Jodee Redmond. We were talking about how shy we were/are in the real world, but received a bravery boost when we began freelancing. Both Jodee and I brought up situations where we were hesitant to discuss payment options, raises, or asking contacts for work – when we [...]

10 Marketing Tips for Freelance Writers

I was scheduled to give a talk last week about marketing for freelance writers.  The other presentations ran overtime, so I didn’t get a chance to speak after all. However, I still spent a lot of time during meals and recreation discussing the various ways freelance writers can market themselves. I learned marketing means different [...]

Greetings from the Demand Studios Creator Conference

This is NOT a sponsored post. No one is paying to write this post, I’m speaking from the heart.
I’m writing this from Santa Monica, where I’m attending a very unique event, the Demand Studios Creator Conference. I was invited to attend to learn more about Demand Studios, talk with the team, and meet the writers. [...]

Tip of the Day: Freelance Writing as a Work from Home Business

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how my career has evolved from blogging and writing to becoming a serious work at home business. I don’t only write for a few clients here and there anymore. I own a full fledged blog network featuring several writers. In addition, I have clients who send me on [...]

Tip of the Day: Relationships Not Spam

There’s a mistake many of us make in trying to drive traffic to our blogs and websites. We spam.  We’re not trying to. We may not even think we’re doing it, but it happens. If you’re someone who feels blog comments, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks are only for posting links, you’re guilty of [...]

Tip of the Day: From Niche Writer to Expert

You write about sewing. A lot. You blog about sewing. You have newspaper column about sewing. You write about sewing for a green living website. In fact, if there’s any outlet needing sewing content, you’re the one to call. You rock your niche. You’re no mere needle arts writer, you, my dear, are the sewing [...]

Writing Tip of the Day: Network with Your Friends

This post is sponsored by Demand Studios.
You talk with your friends about what you do, but how many of them send business your way? When you think about it, friends are perfect for referrals. Here’s something that happened to me recently:
I go out to dinner once a month with a group of women. We talk [...]

Demand Studios Writing Tip of the Day: Use Old Ideas to Create New Content

This is a sponsored post.
I like to refer to myself as a “thought collector.” I write down everything. I have Post-It’s all over my office and years’ worth of notebooks in my file cabinet. Eventually the ideas on those bits of paper go into my calendar program or a notebook so I can refer [...]