Archive for the “Freelance Writing” category

How to Grow Your Freelance Writing Business by Working Less

by Sean Platt on January 30, 2012

Freelance writers make lots of mistakes, especially when they’re starting out online. Mistakes are useful. They’re fertilizer for entrepreneurial growth. They keep you learning and moving forward. However, if you fail to make the right mistakes — and to learn from them — you may as well just keep your writing as a weekend hobby. [...]

3 Simple Steps for Staring Down Writer’s Block

by Mark McGuinness on December 5, 2011

Writer’s block feels like the end of your world. Firstly, there’s the frustration — not being able to do something you love, that normally works like a dream. Like getting into your finely-tuned, lovingly-polished car, turning the key and hearing a pathetic splutter. Or hitting the ‘Jump to Lightspeed’ button and watching the stars just [...]

Introducing The Lede: A Copywriting and Online Marketing Sheet

by Robert Bruce on October 29, 2011

Welcome to The Lede. Every week I’ll be digging up and linking to stories, news, and opinion relevant to online marketing and copywriting. Email, social media, innovation, SEO, productivity, mobile, conversion, publishing, and everything in between. No commentary, just a fast, single page of headlines that you can grab, scan, and squeeze for all they [...]


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The Art of Finding Ideas

by Robert Bruce on October 18, 2011

Every writer who has ever lived has lusted after ideas. Where are they, how do I get them, and how do I keep them coming? If you’ve been writing long enough, you know that — like Solomon — there is nothing new under the sun. Try as you might to sweat them out of your [...]


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19 Ways to Get Paid for Your Writing

by Danny Iny on October 10, 2011

Good writers should get paid for their work. It’s as simple as that. If this is what you want to do professionally, then you should be paid for it. A dirty little secret of this business is that many writers that earn a full-time income by putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, aren’t [...]


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What Bestselling Fiction Can Teach You About Writing Better Landing Pages

by Sean D'Souza on September 26, 2011

Imagine you’re having a discussion with a talkative, hyperactive teenager. The conversation goes something like this … We went to the mall, and like, there was this fire in the mall. And we went from there to the movies, but we didn’t have any money and anyway the popcorn machine was broken, and so we [...]


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