You’ve likely seen them. You may even be here because of them. We’re talking about those “From the Blogosphere” boxes you see on many blogs, each containing a small selection of links to the latest related posts on external blogs.
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We’re wired and hooked up.
That, imo, is one of the neatest things about being a writer today, something we most certainly did not have way way back pre-Internet… or even early-Internet for that matter.
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Is it really fair to just have one hourly rate? After all, I would imagine that you’d be measurably more productive writing on a subject you’re an expect on as opposed to the very same hour spent struggling with something you know very little about.
Which is why some writers have adopted multiple billing rates.
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This recently caught my eye briefly the other day, a somewhat interesting vanity press project I quicklly dubbed the world’s most ambitious.
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After having had my fair share of run-ins with plagiarizers through the years, I was going to write a little something about copyrights and the usual crud you hear from content thieves in this day and age of electronic distribution and really easy copying-and-pasting. But why bother when Brad Templeton did a very good job already.
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While chatting with my friend, master programmer William Bontrager, the other day about some cool server applications, something he mentioned in passing flicked on the switch of my wordpreneur lightbulb. His statement:
“[S]ome geeks don’t know how to write manuals.”
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Are you a schoolteacher? Teachbits, the teacher-to-teacher online marketplace, is running a “perk up your classroom” contest.
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If you’re thinking of entering a literary or poetry contest — you’ve no doubt seen the ads, and when word gets out that you’re a “writer,” you’ll probably get a neverending stream of invites for these in your email inbox like I do — you’ll want to check out this resource first.
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According to my friend, Dana Cassell, who’s the editor and publisher of the Writers-Editors Network, the American Business Writers Association (ABWA) was a group of trade journal writers, formed before there was even an Internet, but it no longer exists. It did leave us with a really useful legacy, though… a highly useful formula to help us freelancers figure out what to charge.
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Bartering is exchanging your services for your client’s goods or services. No money exchanges hands. And I’m not a big fan of the practice.
But it’s a good way to get your writing/copywriting business started. In particular, working these “arrangements” is an excellent way to start filling up your portfolio.
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