All Entries in the "Guest Blogger Entries" Category
Put Time into Properly Managing Your Home-Based Writing Business
With all that full-time writers have to do in this day and age, managing a home-based writing business may not seem like a big deal to some outside the business, but it can be overwhelming for some small business entrepreneurs. So, if you’ve gone from the corporate world of writing and/or reporting to operating your [...]
Freelance Writing – 10 Proofreading Tips Every Blogger Needs to Know
If you are like most bloggers, you love to write. Unfortunately, you probably also hate proofreading. Here are some proofreading tips to make it easier for you to get better results with less effort: Write outside your browser. Make the writing process easier on yourself by writing outside your Web browser. When you write in [...]
Freelance Writing Concepts You Can Just Throw Away
This freelance writing stuff is a very strange beast. There isn’t really any right or wrong way to go about it necessarily. Most of us kind of find our own way to do things and we sally forth. Some are successful, others not so much. Here is a list of freelance writing concepts that you [...]
Freelancing By The Numbers
Talk to anyone in sales and they will all tell you the same little piece of ancient wisdom: It’s a numbers game. No surprise here, but if you’re a freelance writer you’re in sales. This is an excellent time of year to dive in and have a look at those little beasties. Reviewing your numbers [...]
Next in the Duelling Blogger Series – No Comment!
In this much anticipated re-match, the illustrious Mark Pepper squares off with George Angus about the concept of blog commenting. Let’s have Mark start the shenanigans: No comment! Mark Pepper: I should say from the outset that I am playing Devil’s Advocate here, as Tumblemoose was in our last duel. I feel it necessary to [...]
Referrals – Money In The Bank
In a former life, I sold cars. Yep, I know it’s hard to believe, especially when there is this weird bias about buying a car from a guy wearing a kilt. Since car sales folk usually get paid through commission and not an hourly wage (hmmm. Sound familiar?) it’s important for them to establish a [...]
Value Added Freelance Writing
One of the best ways to provide excellent customer service to your freelance writing clients is to add value to what you offer. The old adage of under-promise and over-deliver applies to freelance writing absolutely. We all know that happy customers return and also can provide referrals to help boost the client list. What is [...]
That Does It, Mister. You’re Getting a Time Out!
Oh, man. What parent hasn’t uttered those words at one point or another? When the little one is literally bouncing off the walls and out of control a time out works wonders. It allows the little tornado the chance to sit and reflect on their actions and perhaps gain a new perspective before they head [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Writer (GSOH) Seeks Doting Employer
Fasten your seat belts – this is another killer post by Mark Pepper, the pen wielding new star blogger at Freelance Writing. Enjoy, and don’t forget your tissue stack, you’ll need it. This week, I’d like to address the issue of humour in writing. (Yeah, I know … who died and made me Pope of [...]
Deadline Oriented
One big advantage to being a freelance writer is not having to punch a time clock for an employer. Of course there are trade-offs for everything in life and in this instance us freelance writing types have traded in a time clock for a deadline. Most would say this is a worthy trade indeed. As [...]
How Personal Are You?
A common piece of wisdom for freelance writers is to show a personal side. For the most part I think this is pretty sound advice. I know that if I am trying to make a decision for services I want to feel like I am going to deal with a person and not a corporate [...]
Writing With Crayons
This is a guest post by Mark Pepper my newest staff writer. That’s his picture by the way (doesn’t he look awfully cute)? You’ll soon see that Mark has wonderful humor (sometimes he is a bit of a smart ass,) but that’s exactly why we clicked instantly when he contacted me not so long ago [...]
