This post is over ten years old, as is my freelance writing business. Back then, I thought using the word “we” made ArcticLlama seem more professional. But, it was a royal we. ArcticLlama has always been a one person show. It’s my freelance writing business. I’ve made some tweaks but left the “we” because that is how this article came down back in 2009.
When we started the Arctic Llama professional freelance writing blog our missions was clear, to help inform, educate, recommend, and inspire both those who hire freelance writers and those who are, or wish to become freelance writers.
Over the last several months, our blog has drifted off course with all manner of posts regarding topics not related to either the craft of freelance writing, or the business of hiring and working with freelance writers. Usually, these posts were made under the auspices that they were about things that freelance writers or business owners might be interested in, even if they were not directly related to freelance writing itself.
(Blogs do not have to be so narrowly tailored to be useful. I think this was an overreaction to reading some sort of SEO tip about needing to be “relevant” in order to rank higher in Google.)
In reality, we’ve embarked on several projects, both long and short-term, here at Arctic Llama which we are confident will both broaden our reach as professionals and increase both the amount of revenue and the number of revenue streams that we have. Many of these projects involve creating, developing, setting up, and marketing new websites. As we’ve encountered interesting or frustrating concepts and issues along the way, we’ve written about them here.
There is nothing wrong with stretching one’s knowledge nor learning new things, but when you have committed to provide a certain kind of information to an audience, it is proper to focus on delivering that information.
With that in mind, as of this moment, we are rededicating the Arctic Llama blog to the business of freelance writing.
However, we have learned some very interesting things. The amount of research we have done is significant, and in some cases, our experiments and implementations have led to knowledge and understanding that is not widely available, and perhaps even not widely known about. We want to share this knowledge. After all, we are professional writers because we love writing, not because we were looking for a quick way to make a buck working from home.
In order to both fulfill our core commitment with the Arctic Llama professional freelancers blog and to write informative articles about other areas that might benefit freelancers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and others, we will be creating and authoring new blogs that focus on those topics that we desire to write about.
Our first new blog is Make Money Writing Online. (As of 10/2020 – Make Money Writing Online is undergoing a major overhaul and moving hosts. You are most welcome to visit but the content is old, and the design is older. It will be better soon.) Others will be coming later. (Try FinanceGourmet, for example)
While there are numerous – perhaps too many – blogs and websites out there about how to make money online, they are dedicated to making money with the Internet. Any writing that may be a part of making money on the Internet is incidental.
Make Money Writing Online, by design will be focused upon using the craft of writing to generate income and profits on the Internet however that may come whether it be blogs, websites, writing for article directories, and the like. Freelance writing business information will be captured here at Arctic Llama, though there may be some inevitable overlap. When that happens, we’ll be sure to point you in the right direction regardless of which website it will be on.
We encourage you to take a look at our site about using writing skills and talent to make money online. Of course, we hope that you will continue to read our posts here on our professional writers blog as well. In fact, grabbing the ArcticLlama RSS Feed is the best way to make sure you never miss anything.
Thank you, and we hope to see you around for a long time to come at both of our sites.
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