Archive for October, 2009
Rate Transparency vs Damnation
As promised a while ago our writers have crossed swords for the first time in order to start their announced Dueling Writers Series. This first post is about the old, but evergreen topic of whether to publish your rates or not on your website. Both George and Mark share some great points in their respective [...]
Freelance Superstar Launch
Finally, after many months of scheming, writing, brainstorming and intervention I’m immensely proud to announce my first ever product launch in joint partnership with my friend Gobala Krishnan. Gobala and I go back a long time now, he was my first client back in 2007. I feel immensely privileged for being able to launch this [...]
Get Ready For The New Dueling Writers Series
I’m excited to announce our new upcoming Dueling Writer Series where our very own George Tumblemoose (Mr Moose) and Mark Pepper (Mr Spice) are going head to head with all weapons armed in an effort to offer you point/counterpoint scenarios for popular topics in the industry. Regular readers can look forward to a range of [...]
The Search For Perfection …
Mark Pepper is in da house once again. Another corker post from Mark that rings close to home for many, no doubt. To see Mark’s other works of art read Writer (GSOH) Seeks Doting Employer and How To Become An Ex-novelist. The famous philosopher Sting once wrote: “I’ve spent too many years at war with [...]
How Do You Rate?
It’s a legitimate question, really. I mean, how do you set your rates? Seeing how rates determine your income you must have some logical reasoning for charging what you charge for your work. Setting your rates is one of the most crucial aspects of your freelance writing business. Make sure you do it right. Here’s [...]
Platform Diving
I’m going to take a grand leap and assume that a lot of readers here are freelance writers with their own web site. I know I fall into that category. I want you to step back and take a look at your website for a moment. What is your goal with it? Is it to [...]
How To Become An Ex-novelist
If you ever wanted to be a novelist, now is your chance to see what happens behind the curtain of fame. This is a riveting ‘behind the scenes’ look of MarkPepper’s too short life as a novelist and why he never published another book. The heat in this iron is now two weeks old, but [...]
When the Client Gets in the Way
Unfortunately the old adage, “the customer is always right” applies to freelance writing. Or does it? In theory, a client has come to you, the expert, with a writing problem that needs to be solved. They recognize you as an expert otherwise they wouldn’t be there. So what do you do when they don’t want [...]
Beware Of The Job Bidding Site Sucker!
Over the last month or so I did little test drive on Elance to see what gives if a professional freelance writer stops by to wave her magic wand. Well, as you can imagine, no one gives a rats ass about Monika Mundell and her online achievements. As a matter of fact, she had to [...]
