http://www.arcticllama.com/blog Professional Freelance Writers at Arctic Llama Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:03:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/beingafreelancer/writer-freelance-taxes-small-business-tax-tips-se-self-employement/#comment-184 Freelance Writer Taxes Self Employment Tax - ArcticLlama.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:03:02 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/beingafreelancer/writer-freelance-taxes-small-business-tax-tips-se-self-employement/#comment-184 [...] January, as I collect 1099s from my clients I think about taxes and how small business taxes effect freelance writers. (I even had this clip art waiting from an article I had written [...] [...] January, as I collect 1099s from my clients I think about taxes and how small business taxes effect freelance writers. (I even had this clip art waiting from an article I had written [...]

]]> http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/observations/llama-font/#comment-182 Gianna Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:38:38 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/?p=752#comment-182 How do i get this???!!! I LOVE me some llamas and am obsessed with them. Please tell me how i write with this Xoxo Gianna How do i get this???!!! I LOVE me some llamas and am obsessed with them. Please tell me how i write with this
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]]> http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/beingafreelancer/how-much-does-a-freelance-writer-get-paid/#comment-177 Calculating rates for your writing work Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:37:52 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/beingafreelancer/how-much-does-a-freelance-writer-get-paid#comment-177 [...] Six figure salaries sound great, but aren’t realistic. Brian Nelson of Arctic Llama sensibly argues that if a writer wasn’t earning 100,000 in full-time work, they aren’t going to make that freelance. His cogent blog piece is here. [...] [...] Six figure salaries sound great, but aren’t realistic. Brian Nelson of Arctic Llama sensibly argues that if a writer wasn’t earning 100,000 in full-time work, they aren’t going to make that freelance. His cogent blog piece is here. [...]

]]> http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/beingafreelancer/is-demand-studios-worth-it/#comment-171 Rathnashikamani Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:30:20 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/beingafreelancer/is-demand-studios-worth-it#comment-171 Good information. And this article is unique and different that what I've read about Demand Studio. Good information. And this article is unique and different that what I’ve read about Demand Studio.

]]> http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/writing-tips/what-is-ap-style/#comment-170 Prier@btinternet.com Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:43:19 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/writing-tips/what-is-ap-style#comment-170 thanks so much for an awesome read. Cheers mate keep up the good work! thanks so much for an awesome read. Cheers mate keep up the good work!

]]> http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/writing-tips/online-writing/bright-hub-shuts-down/#comment-169 Taking Down Bright Hub Links - ArcticLlama.com Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:31:09 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/?p=830#comment-169 [...] been slowly but surely deleting the links to my content ever since Bright Hub shut down for all intents and purposes. Unlike writing for Demand Studios, one of the things that made Bright [...] [...] been slowly but surely deleting the links to my content ever since Bright Hub shut down for all intents and purposes. Unlike writing for Demand Studios, one of the things that made Bright [...]

]]> http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/seo/professional-writers-should-forget-seo-and-just-write/#comment-166 Zemanta Online Writers WordPress Plugin - ArcticLlama.com Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:02:30 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/seo/professional-writers-should-forget-seo-and-just-write/#comment-166 [...] In order for your own websites or online writing to succeed, you need to be able to create and produce webpages that are both attractive enough to capture and maintain the attention of your readers and tweaked properly to appease the Google search engine spiders that come and index your website. In other words, you need to do things like add images to your posts and always keep one eye on your site’s SEO needs. Unfortunately, I can no longer believe that writers should ignore SEO. [...] [...] In order for your own websites or online writing to succeed, you need to be able to create and produce webpages that are both attractive enough to capture and maintain the attention of your readers and tweaked properly to appease the Google search engine spiders that come and index your website. In other words, you need to do things like add images to your posts and always keep one eye on your site’s SEO needs. Unfortunately, I can no longer believe that writers should ignore SEO. [...]

]]> http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/seo/finally-tagged-by-panda/#comment-165 Zemanta Online Writers WordPress Plugin - ArcticLlama.com Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:00:31 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/seo/finally-tagged-by-panda/#comment-165 [...] What is even better is writing for your own websites, building your own traffic and making money off of what YOU want to write, when you want to write it. It’s better than just working from home. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. Even when you do succeed, there is no guarantee that Google won’t come along and whack your traffic after you’ve built up a nice little piece of passive income on the side. (See how this freelance writing blog recently got hit with the October Panda update.) [...] [...] What is even better is writing for your own websites, building your own traffic and making money off of what YOU want to write, when you want to write it. It’s better than just working from home. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done. Even when you do succeed, there is no guarantee that Google won’t come along and whack your traffic after you’ve built up a nice little piece of passive income on the side. (See how this freelance writing blog recently got hit with the October Panda update.) [...]

]]> http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/writing-tips/online-writing/demand-studios-over/#comment-152 Mini Panda Recovery - ArcticLlama News - ArcticLlama.com Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:13:13 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/writing-tips/online-writing/demand-studios-over/#comment-152 [...] from the so-called content mills that ranked high in searches. The result has been the virtual shut down of Demand Studios and severe cutbacks at BrightHub. Ironically, the all-comers publishing web platform HubPages has [...] [...] from the so-called content mills that ranked high in searches. The result has been the virtual shut down of Demand Studios and severe cutbacks at BrightHub. Ironically, the all-comers publishing web platform HubPages has [...]

]]> http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/observations/llama-font/#comment-143 Google Abusing Monopoly Power? - Search - BestHubris.com Best Hubris Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:38:48 +0000 http://www.arcticllama.com/blog/?p=752#comment-143 [...] freelance writing business is named ArcticLlama, so when I found a funny joke in the form a Llama Font, I wrote a little post about it and put it up on my website. A month or two later my site got a lot [...] [...] freelance writing business is named ArcticLlama, so when I found a funny joke in the form a Llama Font, I wrote a little post about it and put it up on my website. A month or two later my site got a lot [...]

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