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Removing Emotions from Your Writing Business
Last week a client came to me with feedback on a project I’d just completed. His words were something like this: “I had to revise it extensively for accuracy and it doesn’t appear to have been...
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Applying for the Freelance Writing Job
By Lori Widmer I’m not one to apply for job listings very often. To me, they create a passivity in us writers. If we’re merely responding to ads, we’re not actively taking charge of our careers and our...
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How to Handle Rocks and Hard Places
By Lori Widmer Recently, I was asked by the client to complete a project section that had been missed when we’d first put together the client’s major project. I agreed. Only afterward did the client...
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Breaking Free of Content Farms
By Lori Widmer When I say you can improve your earnings potential by leaving behind content-generating jobs, I hear responses like “But content mills are all I can get!” I don’t buy it. Or they say...
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The Client Posse
By Lori Widmer How often have you worked very well with a client only to have it go sour at the end? How often have those soured relationships had a third party involved? Show of hands – how many of...
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An Open Letter to Bad Job Listing Owners
By Lori Widmer Dear Cheap Startup, Viral Marketer, and Anyone Wanting Writing for Nothing: I keep seeing your ads all over the Internet. I’d like to bring up a few points with you. Going forward, I...
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Doing Nothing Wrong?
By Lori Widmer So you sit there every day waiting for work to appear, but nothing. The projects you had are finished and work seems to have dried up. You’re searching, but in those same, dried-up spots...
View ArticleThe Good Online Writer’s Workshop
By Lori Widmer I’ve taken a few online workshops and seminars over the years. I can say that the majority have been okay, but there’s one that stands out as the largest waste of time and money I’ve...
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Does Freelancing Fit You?
By Lori Widmer We can talk all day about the feast-and-famine cycle, the unruly clients, the non-paying clients, and the aversion we have to marketing or billing. But at the root of it, we love what we...
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Finding Your Business Backbone
By Lori Widmer The last few weeks I’ve had more challenges to my business than I’ve had in years. The last one was particularly unnerving. It involved someone who was possibly rerouting blog RSS feeds...
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