Friday, November 30, is the last day to nominate your favorite blog for writers. Please visit Michael Stelzner’s Writing White Papers Blog and leave your nomination. Remember, only your first nomination counts, and a blog needs more than one nomination to be considered for the list. So if you see one you like that hasn’t […]
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Do you ever have just one of those clients? You know the kind: you like them, you’re interested in their project, you dig their company/products/philosophy/whatever — but they drive you crazy. Yeah, I have one of those right now. I genuinely like these people, but I’ve about had it. I alluded to this situation in […]
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I love this post from Bosshatch so much that I’m actually blogging it here AND at Biz Chicks Rule! 20 reasons being an entrepreneur rules? What’s not to love? Here are my favorites from the writing perspective:
16. You get to make an “I started out of my garage with no electricity, food, or water - […]
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My beloved Streetcards is offering free upgrade to “matt lamination” if you order or reorder before December 1. Take advantage of the offer — the matt laminated cards are SUPER nice.
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I blogged on this topic not too long ago at my new b5media blog Biz Chicks Rule, but I still don’t have any answers. That’s why I want to know how YOU handle the holidays in your freelance business.
Do you send cards and gifts? What kind, and to whom?
Do you offer special holiday-related discounts or […]
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In a word, yes. Freelancers know that the key to success, after having a quality product and good prices and being easy to work with, is networking, and LinkedIn makes it easy for even the shyest among us to be champion networkers. Since joining LinkedIn this summer, I’ve built a network of more than 100 […]
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I found this collection of 9 words that are frequently used incorrectly from Cracked.com on StirrdUp this morning. But more than a standard commonly misused words (think what you see in the back of a steno pad), there’s extensive hilarious commentary and a ratings scale for how much of a moron you are for using […]
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Hope is a participant in the LK Article Challenge as well as a blogger and moderator who helps keep things rolling when co-host Suzanne and I are out of town or swamped with work. Check out this great article!
Here Are Quick Ways To Make Blogging Easier
by Hope Wilbanks
Let’s face it…blogging can become a burden […]
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Thanks to Lori for nominating lil’ ol’ me despite my MIA status over the last couple of weeks. I have a good excuse, I swear, but that’s for another post. In the meantime, read the bad excuse, which covers last week.
Head over the the Writing White Papers Blog to nominate YOUR favorite writing blog, and […]
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Late last month, reports starting coming out about a 24-year-old Minnesota woman who was murdered after she answered a Craigslist ad for a nanny.
A woman who responded to an online request for a babysitter told her roommate that the person who placed the ad “seemed kind of strange.”
Katherine Ann Olson went anyway, thinking she would […]
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Chris Garrett commented yesterday on perceptions surrounding the Hollywood writers’ strike, namely that people seem to think they’re highly paid fat cats who are just being greedy.
For every freelancer that is fully booked at their top rate, there are many who are not working at all or working at a much lower hourly rate.
Even when […]
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