Copywriter & ghostwriter: when you need help to sell something, or to write a book.
If you’re a freelancer who’s creating content for clients, blogging apps can not only help you to meet deadlines, they can help you to increase your income. Here’s why. Today, when you’re hired for a gig, you may be asked to manage a client’s social media accounts as well as their blog. With several clients, you’ll quickly lose track of … Read more
Are you selling freelance services? You may be a freelancer, or a consultant. Perhaps you run an agency which provides services. If you sell services, chances are good that today you rely on your website to win clients. Unfortunately, for many service businesses, responses are slow. Advertising isn’t helping. Freelance services: make more sales with this fix Want a simple … Read more
Want to achieve your goals? Here’s the only way: be prepared to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not achieving. Although failure is uncomfortable, it can’t derail you if you expect to fail and decide that you’ll learn from all your failures. As essayist John Burroughs pointed out: “You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure … Read more
Anyone with a freelance writing business has challenges. Your challenges may be huge, or trivial, but either way, they take up mind space and ruin your creativity. Common challenges in a freelance writing business Freelance writing comes with lots of challenges. The most common is feast or famine syndrome: you either have too much work, or too little. Challenges you … Read more
You’re a freelance writer, so you’re a content creator. This year, I’ve received many questions from freelancers who find that it’s hard to maintain a good living from their content creation efforts. It’s no longer enough to provide well-written articles and web content. A tsunami of content flows onto the web every day. In addition, 2020’s lockdowns and social distancing … Read more