01 Monday Apr 2013
Posted in Freelance Writing
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Art, Business, Communications, Freelancer, Stephen King, Writers Resources, Writing, Writing and Editing
Everywhere you go, you see words. Remember all those papers you had to write in college. How about all those notes you wrote to your boyfriend or girlfriend in high school? Everyone has a little “writer” inside themselves. If you can read you can most definitely write. Continue reading »
03 Sunday Jun 2012
Posted in Freelance Writing, Internet
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Advertising, Business, Copyright, Copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Google, Intellectual property, Law, Legal Information, Marketing, User-generated content
Almost every website on the Internet includes some content, whether this is in the form of pictures, words or another media. Copyright laws are used to safeguard the intellectual rights of the author of his or her content. Copyright law has recently become a very important issue in the worldwide media due to countries’ acts of government like S.O.P.A. and other high-profile attempts at enforcing copyright online. This is the perfect time to review your website’s copyright and to make sure you are making the most of its potential. This article highlights the importance of updating copyright on a website, the types of work that can be protected and the direct, positive effect it can have on the amount of views a website receives. Continue reading »
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
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academia research, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Associated Content, Constant-Content, freelance article, Freelance Writer, freelance writing jobs, Freelancer, Google, HubPages, Make money online, Paypal, provider companies, SEO Writer, Web Content Writer, WordStream
The Internet is packed with information, and people are needed to create web content. You can become a freelance writer, SEO writer or web content writer. You can work anywhere in the world, not just from home, so long as you have access to the Internet and have writing ability. Here’s what you can do to get started with telework as a freelance writer. Continue reading »
24 Tuesday Jan 2012
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Blog, Facebook, Five Tips for Business Blogging, Online Communities, Social media, Social Networking, Twitter, Web search engine, Writing
Are you looking to start a blog but don’t know where to begin? These five tips will help you successfully write an engaging blog and drive readers to your website! Continue reading »
07 Saturday Jan 2012
Posted in Freelance Writing
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anthology, Business, Communications, Editing, first thought, Picture, Publishing, readability, readership, redundancies, target market, Word, Writer, Writing and Editing
You’ve just found out that your story/article/interview is going to be included in a nationally published magazine/anthology/journal. The excitement can be overwhelming at first. Enjoy it because there is more work ahead. Your job does not stop here! Soon, you’ll hear from the editor and the next step will begin. Continue reading »
04 Wednesday Jan 2012
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Art, authorial voice, Business, Chats and Forums, Cliché, Creative Writing, hook line, Mailing Lists, north carolinian, novel group, strawberry blonde hair, sweet tea, Writers Resources, writing exercise
Don’t you love it when you’re writing a rip-roaring piece of prose chock full of 
suspense you know the reader gobble up hook, line, and sinker? You’ll have the reader eating out of the palm of your hand and chomping at the bit. There will never a dull moment. You know your piece will leave the reader with her heart racing, her palms sweaty and her knees weak. Breathless. You will leave her breathless. Continue reading »
04 Wednesday Jan 2012
Posted in Freelance Writing
Are you worried about not having anything to write? Do you fret about getting that dreaded writer’s block when you stare at a blank piece of paper? You don’t have to. Here is what you can do to prevent that from happening. In the twenty years I’ve been writing, I never had a problem with writer’s block due to my following these easy tips. Continue reading »
27 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Freelance Writing
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Arts, Business, Business Services, Consulting, Expense, Freelancer, Marketplaces, Rainy day fund, Writers Resources
Most freelancers live from hand to mouth. Nearly every nickle earned goes toward personal expenses. This may 
be the one serious drawback to freelancing. It doesn’t matter what area of work you freelance in, the amount of work offered will have periods of extreme fluctuation. It may dry up altogether, and the freelancer will be left scratching for pennies. Few freelancers receive a regular weekly salary of a known and stable amount, which makes it difficult to live on a particular set budget. Continue reading »
25 Sunday Dec 2011
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Arts, Business, Freelancer, Freelancing, Google, search engine optimization, Writer, Writers Resources, Writing
Writers come from many different backgrounds and abilities, but one thing that they all have in common is their desire to succeed, often in a very tough, competitive market. How can you build integrity as a freelance writer? Continue reading »
29 Tuesday Nov 2011
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Arts, Blog, Blogger, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Freelancer, Public relations, WordPress, Writers Resources
Summary: If you blog specifically to drive traffic to your main website and promote your products or services, it’s important that you regularly post relevant and informative content on your blog. But what if you’re too busy to blog or you’ve run out of ideas to blog about? Hire guest bloggers!
These days, maintaining a blog (or several blogs) is one of the best ways to increase site traffic and product sales. Business owners also realize that in order for their blog to be effective, it has to be updated on a regular basis, usually everyday or two or three times a week. A blog that hasn’t been updated for a long time will eventually lose readers and such a blog will be useless for business. So what do you do if you’re too busy to post entries for a certain period? This is a problem that’s very common among busy blog owners and the most usual solution is to hire guest bloggers. Continue reading »
