All Entries Tagged With: "freelancing"
Time Management – Freelance Writing Guide
To continue with the theme of my Freelance Writing Guide For New Freelancers series I’m going to write about time management today. The Pareto Principle guidelines state that 20% of results are achieved with 80% of unfocused effort. This means that the remaining 80% of results will be generated with only 20% of the effort. [...]
You Didn’t Know It – But I’m a Rhyming Poet!
Instead of writing a post for you today I got creative to engage my “other” brain cells for some fun. I wrote the following rhythmic poem in 15 minutes. When I was younger, my former boss and I made up many impromptu rhymes in my native tongue while working in the kitchen. That always ended [...]
Marketing.Branding. – Freelance Writing Guide
In this instance of my Freelance Writing Guide For New Freelancers I will talk about how you can promote yourself free of charge. When I say free, it means free of cost, but you will spend considerable time to make up for the lack of monetary investment. Some say that time is money and I [...]
Client Testimonials – Freelance Writing Guide
Getting client testimonials is really hard for some freelance writers. Maybe they are too shy to ask, or they feel not confident enough, but if you are in this business or want to be at all you need testimonials. If you have missed my previous posts on how to become a freelance writer, I suggest [...]
Invoicing Clients – Freelance Writing Guide
Invoicing clients is the fifth installment to my Freelance Writing Guide For New Freelancers. While we work with clients as writers, we also have to find convenient ways to invoice them for our services. Luckily for most, PayPal is a widely used by online businesses for service transactions, whether you buy products or get paid [...]
Setting Your Rates – Freelance Writing Guide
It’s time for another installment of my Freelance Writing Guide For New Freelancers. Setting rates is perhaps the most puzzling of all aspects to a new freelance writer, because of all the conflicting messages presented on the Internet. In one corner you’ll see the $3 for 400 word article jobs advertised and in another you [...]
Writing Queries – Freelance Writing Guide
Writing a successful query is perhaps one of the most important parts of being in freelance writing. Without it, we won’t be able to score jobs except for job ads and you know what that means. Here is an excerpt of what The Free Dictionary has to say about queries: que·ry (kwîr) n. pl. que·ries [...]
Finding Work – Freelance Writing Guide
This is my second installment of the 16 part freelance writing guide for new freelancers and is perhaps the most important for those of you who are anxious to get earning. There are so many ways to find work as a freelance writer that it would be impossible to blog about them all in one [...]
Freelance Writing Blog Crawl – Round Three
Ok, after a week of pulling my hair I’m back to normal with blogging here on my Freelance Writing blog. I thought it a good idea to interrupt my Freelance Writing Guide for New Freelancers to give some of you a chance to catch up (and me too, LOL). Therefore I want to feature some [...]
Freelance Writing Guide For New Freelancers
I’ve given this much thought. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t receive an email from new freelance writers who want the lowdown on how to score the best job, how to get noticed amongst the pack and more. I don’t profess to be a know it all, but I also know that managing [...]
Planning Your Future Writing Gigs
Many freelance writers make one fatal mistake in their business. They wait until they run dry before they plan their future freelance writing gigs. Big mistake! If you do this, you will only hurt yourself in the end, since you are the person suffering most when no money comes through. You don’t really drive a [...]
Is Writing For A Byline Really Good Enough?
I spend some time every week browsing the numerous freelance job websites that offer work to freelancers and have found a new developing and disturbing trend. Deb over at Freelance Writing Gigs got me thinking with her latest post on readers queries (especially one from a guy called Richard Z). It seems that more and [...]
8 Ways to Kick Start Your Freelancing Career
After conversing with some of my readers via email I have come to the conclusion that many newcomers to freelancing still don’t have a clue on where to start once they decide to become a freelance writer. This dilemma doesn’t just affect writers, but also designers and has the potential to stop them from becoming [...]
Strategic Ways to Freelancing Success
Starting off as a freelance writer is the easiest part of the whole deal. Anybody can pick up a virtual pen and announce to the world that they are in business. All we have to do is make an announcement and we are in business. … or so they thought and wondered why the clients [...]
3 Ways to Get The Job Done
When we commit to working on a job, we are often limited by deadlines and outside distractions. As a freelance writer on the mission to be one of the best freelance writers, I can only blame myself if I don’t get the job done on the due date and it is very tempting and easy [...]
My Favourite Freelance Writing Tools
As a best freelance writer I’m always on the hunt for tools that make my life easier. I noticed that by using convenience tools that help me save time and develop a writing routine, I get a lot more of my freelance writing work done during the day. Nowhere is this more important than when [...]
Keep Control of Your Freelance Writing Jobs
Freelance writing jobs are the bread and butter of frrelance writers all around the world. Without freelance writing job opportunities, freelance writers wouldn’t earn any money.
9 More Freelance Writing Job Websites
More freelance writing job websites for freelance writers.
