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Freelance writing

Getting Out of Your Writing Funk with a Life Coach

January 28, 2012

In my last post I wrote about motivation. One of my colleagues recently told me that her life coach was her main inspiration. Sitting in on our discussion was another colleague who commented that  she was so impressed with her sister’s life coach that she’s writing an article about life coaches  for a magazine. Life [...]

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Earning Credibility for Your Writing

January 9, 2012

Your readers read you blog posts an  articles because they want information about solving their problems. Your readers purchase products you recommend for emotional reasons while they justify their purchase based on logical reasons. Credibility is one element of your writing that must appeal to both aspects of your reader’s decisions. Credibility diminishes any doubts [...]

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Skills Needed for Freelance Writing

December 17, 2011

It should not come as a surprise to any of you that you do need excellent writing skills to be hired as a freelance writer. After all, clients are hiring you to express the passion for their topic on their website, in blogs and for articles. Other clients are counting on your corporate report to [...]

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Tips for Making Money Writing – Become a Skilled Writer

December 14, 2011

“My daughter wants to be a writer; she should talk to you.” “I have an idea for a book; I should talk to you.” I probably hear people tell me this 10 times a month primarily when they find out that I’m a writer. My short answer, especially if you don’t want to read any [...]

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Webmasters Need to Hire Writers

December 5, 2011

I am a better writer than a webmaster, an attorney, a plumber or an engineer. Although I don’t know their topic as well as they do, most of what I don’t know is a new vocabulary. There are also concepts I may not know but I know who can answer my questions. I am better [...]

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Freelance Writing with no Experience

December 2, 2011

A webmaster I met recently was very frank; he asked me how he could become a freelance writer without any commercial writing experience because then he wouldn’t have to outsource the content to people like me. I’m responding to his first question about how to become a freelance writer and later deal with his premise [...]

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Writing Self-Help Niches

June 24, 2011

A small self-help bookstore is located about 4 miles from me. It seems like it has been there forever. Shelves at libraries and bookstores are filled with self help and psychology books the two of which are often related. If you search for a self help book you will get pages and pages of links. [...]

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Freelance Query Letters That Get Results

June 21, 2011

In my last post I focused on query letters as the beginning to series of blog posts about freelance writing. I wrote that the main purpose of a query letter was to attract an editor’s or publisher’s interest and to identify myself as the expert on the topic. In this post I want to describe [...]

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Letters Are Important Freelance Writer Tools

June 17, 2011

I’m often asked what I do for a living. My first response is copywriter and content creator primarily on the internet. When they ask more questions and discover I do a great deal of freelance writing, many folks become very interested and want to know how. That’s why I wanted to start this series on [...]

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Improve Your Freelance Writing Business

June 28, 2010

I started out as a part time freelance writer. Actually, it was more like moonlighting because I already had a full time job. The beauty of freelance writing is that I didn’t need much space and I could work at home primarily on my time. I was a part time freelance writer before I worked [...]

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