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Why I Told My Husband to Work for Demand Studios
Regular readers of MALW know that I am not a fan of content mills. We had one of our liveliest-ever discussions here a few posts back about Demand Studios’ IPO plans, which to my mind revealed more reasons to be wary of the content factory.
The Critical Networking Step Many Writers Miss
It’s confession time. This past week, I made a tragic error. I washed a pair of my husband’s pants.
Inside a small side pocket of the pants, it turned out, were about 30 business cards my hubby had collected at a big networking event several days before.
Writers Who Want to Earn More Find Ways to Learn More
By Carol Tice Do you feel like your writing career has hit a wall? If you can't seem to move up and land better-paying assignments, know that there's a proven way to break this blockade. You need to learn more. You might need to learn more about how to write in...
How to Earn Well as a Freelance Writer-When English is Your Second Language
I heard from two different writers last week who had a similar quandary: How to earn well from writing, even though English is not their first language.
3 Simple Steps to Create Consistently Awesome Web Content
Earlier this week, I described how to find lucrative Web content clients. Now, we’ll assume you’ve gotten a client. The next step is to write Web content the client loves.
7 Steps to Finding Good-Paying Web Content Clients
Finding Web-content clients is really like shooting fish in a barrel. Why? Because you can look on the Internet at Web sites, find the ones that suck the worst, and call the company.
Staff Writing Job vs Freelance Writing – Which is Best?
Writer Dan Smith asks: Should he get a day job in London, or keep freelance writing?
7 Money-Management Tips for Freelance Writers
By Carol Tice In case anybody missed it, I was the subject of vilification on WAHM.com last week for daring to mention Demand Studios' recent disclosure that it loses buckets of money. The discussion on WAHM turned into a long thread full of reasons people love...
When Copyright Infringement Goes Over the Top
Longtime MALW readers may know that in general, I’ve had a pretty laid-back attitude about my articles getting ripped off online. Until last week.
Lessons From A Blogger’s Vacation
So I’m back from vacation now. As regular readers of this blog know, I believe writers should plan carefully so that they actually get to vacation on their vacation.
I took my own advice and worked ahead, carefully managed my schedule, informed clients of my absence, and had nearly all my accounts tied up with a bow.
The problem was my blogs.
Demand Studios’ IPO Reveals More Reasons Writers Should be Wary
In case you haven’t yet heard, content farm Demand Studios is planning an initial public offering. This was not unexpected. We’ve already got the drill down — content mills pay freelance writers peanuts, and then go public or get acquired for $100 million-plus.
My Online Writing Job-Search Rules II: 3 Creative Ways to Use the Ads
Last week, I wrote about my rules for finding good-paying jobs through the online job ad sites efficiently. I wanted to extend this topic to discuss some of the creative ways I use job ads to prospect for freelance writing jobs.
I wanted to extend this topic to discuss some of the creative ways I use job ads to prospect for freelance writing jobs. Besides simply responding to ads for freelance writers that you find on the big job boards, there are a few more creative ways to use job ads to reach out and find good-paying markets and copywriting clients. Here’s what I do:
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