Blogging has become so frequent and rampant that the word ‘blog’ is often used interchangeably with ‘website’. Like Facebook and Twitter, blogging has entered the common consciousness and even has its own spin-offs like micro-blogging and so on. What people don’t know is blogging can help you grow your business. In addition to driving traffic to websites, you…
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Building Your Writing Confidence – August 12, 2017
How would you rate your writing confidence on a scale of 1 to 10? If your score is less than 7, consider attending Building Your Writing Confidence education program on Saturday, August 12, 2017. Details are in the flyer below. This program is for writers that are allowing self-confidence to stop or hinder their progress….
Finding Your Writing Niche
Whether you want to be the next great novelist or a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, writing is all about learning. To be able to write about a subject, you have to know about it. Unfortunately, many writers, have several passions and interests, and they want to pursue them all at the same time. It’s easy…
4 Simple Ways Writers Can Improve Their Work
Writing really is an art. Being able to communicate while enchanting and enticing readers isn’t something that everyone who puts pen to paper can achieve. As a writer you are constantly growing because each piece you write allows you to improve and expand in skills and knowledge. Whether you’re a blogger, author, poet or specialize…
5 Ways to Take Your Writing Career to New Heights
A lot of scribes end up getting stuck in their writing careers, unable to get to the next level they imagined when they first decided to earn money writing. To avoid this happening to you, here are five ways to take your writing career to new heights. Take Your Writing Career to New Heights 1….
How to Calculate Rates for Your Freelance Writing Services
Calculating rates for freelance writing services is one of the biggest challenges many freelancers face. When we first start our journey, we tend to quote and accept peanuts for our work. Unfortunately, some of us continue to do this for years, which reaps havoc on our psyches and pocketbooks. To become a profitable freelance writer, here…
10 Mistakes Keeping Freelance Writers Underpaid
Are you an underpaid freelance writer? In my book, The 7 Practices of Highly Underpaid Freelance Writers, I featured four practices that keep freelance writers underpaid. Here are 10 mistakes that are keep them underpaid. Mistakes Keeping Freelance Writers Underpaid Quoting a price before gathering all the details Have you ever quoted a rate for…
Need Ideas for Your Content Marketing?
Content Marketing Idea Generator My book, 62 Blog Posts to Overcome Blogger’s Block Companion Guide, provides prompts to help you generate ideas for all of your content marketing projects – blogs, social media and print. Don’t let the title of the book fool you. It’s for any content creator who needs help coming up with…
7 Services Freelance Writers Should Be Charging For But Probably Aren’t
I used to be a highly underpaid freelance writer. Like many writers, I thought like an artist and employee, not a business owner. That changed when I read The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency as a Writer in Six Months or Less by Peter Bowerman. He noted at least nine services writers perform in a single…
All Content Begins with Writing
All content begins with writing. I’m not just saying this because I believe it so. I’m saying it because it is so. Following are a few examples of the power of writing. Writing is the first step in bringing an idea to life. You have to write the vision and make it plain. No movie…