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Have You Read the Leaked New York Times Content Marketing Report

If you work as a content marketer, freelance writer, or anyone else who produces content for business purposes, you may have heard of the recently leaked ‘innovation report’ from the New York Times.  The report is 96 pages long, and has a lot of really great information.  The New York Times wrote up the report in an attempt to modernize their content creation, promotion, and monetization…

Do You use Batching in Your Writing Business?

If you, like me, are always looking for ways to improve your efficiency, and increase your productivity, you’ll be interested in the concept of batching.  Batching is simply the act of grouping similar activities together, and focusing on them exclusively for a set amount of time.  It is a time management practice that has been growing in popularity for quite some time, and it can be very…

How Many Words Should Your Content Be?

This is one of those questions that is frequently asked, but rarely does anyone get any sort of good answer.  Of course, the vague, general answer is “as long as it needs to be, and not a word more.” Well, that is certainly true, but also about as unhelpful as it gets (and I’ve given that answer to people!).  I recently found a well researched article by Orbit Media Studios, which actually gives…

Five Great Places to Share Your Content You Might have Overlooked

Whether you’re a blogger, a business or anyone else who regularly creates content, it is important to know how to get it in front of people.  One of the biggest mistakes content producers make is not realizing that a big part of their job is marketing and promoting the content they create.  Most people today know that publishing their content on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ are essential.  The…

Ten Fun Yiddish Words You Should Know

As freelance writers, we often get asked to write on a wide variety of topics, and in many different styles.  This can be very difficult at first, especially trying to adjust your writing style.  One of the things that I’ve found helps with altering style, is including some words that you normally wouldn’t.  Whether these are foreign expressions, or some type of slang, they can help adjust the…

Ten Tips for Generating Content Marketing Ideas

As content marketing becomes more and more important for brands, it is essential to come up with new and unique topics to write about on a daily basis.  While this isn’t a problem at first,  it can become overwhelming over time, and many content writers end up having to spend more time coming up with ideas to write about than they actually spend writing.  There are many great resources available…

How I Got my Start as a Freelance Writer

I’m writing this up on a Thursday after seeing countless “Throwback Thursday” posts on Facebook and other sites.  After trying to figure out what to write about for a bit, I decided to give a quick recap of how I got my start as a freelance writer.  Basically this will be an overview of how I went from $0 as a writer to maybe $5000 in my first year, (and now on track to make $35,000 this year…

Something for Potential Clients

As freelance writers, it is often important to be able to not only sell your clients on the fact that you’re a great writer, but also on the fact that they need high quality content.  Many businesses and websites have the mistaken assumption that if they put up a site with a few good pages, people will start visiting and buying their products or services.  True content marketing doesn’t work that…

Why You Need to Know SEO & Content Marketing

Freelance writers who are looking to make money from writing online often think that all they need to do is know how to write quality content, and find clients.  While this might get you off the ground, and even build up a decent income, it is unlikely to really take you to the next level.  One of the things I’ve found is that if you want to find and keep the best clients, you need to be their…

Ten Extremely Simple Tricks to Quickly Improve Your Writing

I try to visit the websites of other writers as often as I can.  While visiting their pages I often come across little ‘bits of gold’ about how to improve your writing.  Sometimes it is a simple tip on how to write faster, other times it is a little grammar tip, and other times something completely different.  In addition, over the last four years as a freelance writer, I’ve come up with a few…

Ten Marketing Tips for Freelance Writers

One of the things I often hear from people who want to make money online with their writing is that they just want to write.  They don’t like the idea of having to go out and find clients, or find ways to get the clients to come to them.  Many writers don’t really want to market themselves, they just want to write and make some money doing it.

While there is nothing wrong with wanting that, it…

Can You Expand Your Freelance Services?

As a freelance writer, you’re likely always looking for new clients or other opportunities to help improve your business.  Whether you’re working on coming up with new skills to improve your writing, or trying to improve your research abilities, it is always essential to be in a constant self-improvement process.  For most people, however, the thing that takes the most effort is finding new…

Content Required for Good SEO

If you’re a freelance writer, you need to make sure you know how to ‘sell’ your writing to different clients.  Fortunately, the product you’re selling is (or at least should be) well worth the investment.  For most online freelance writers, a great deal of the content you write will be used to help to drive traffic to different websites.  Whether it is primarily supposed to be shared on social…

How do You Survive Financially as a Freelance Writer

*Disclaimer – I also have a full time in addition to freelance writing.  I do have some expenses that I pay for exclusively with money I make from freelancing, however, I have a good idea of the types of planning that is required for these situations.

If you are relying on freelance writing as your sole source of income, you’ve undoubtedly experienced some pretty difficult situations.  One of…

Freelance Writing – Should You Specialize?

When it comes to freelance writers, there are two main types.  First, there are the generalized freelance writers (such as myself) who will write on virtually any topic that they are hired for.  Then, the second type, is the specialized type of freelance writer who chooses one or more specific topics that they write about, and that’s all they do.  For example, a health writer will only take jobs…

The Benefits of Online Writing Jobs

The opportunities for freelance writers are better today than ever before.  In generations past, freelance writers had to try to find work by submitting their content to magazines and newspapers, with the hope that it would be bought.  Sometimes they could get to the point where they would regularly get their content published, but that wasn’t always the case.  Freelance writing was a job that…

How to Get Paid for Writing

If you’re looking to make money as a freelance writer online, you’ll need to know how to get paid for your writing.  There are many different options to choose from, and deciding which one (or ones) you go with can be difficult.  For some writers there will be a limited number of options to choose from, since some payment processors don’t accept or send payments to specific countries.  For…