As professional writers, we know all to well the frustration of copyright infringement and people stealing professional content to fill up junk websites filled with advertisements and affiliate links. When it comes time for freelance writers to find and use stock photography to go along with our writing efforts we play by the rules. If [...]
A handful of interesting articles worked their way through my RSS Reader this morning and I thought I would share some of them here for others who might also find them interesting for their freelance writing business. This list is not an endorsement of the content that is linked, which I may or may not [...]
Increase The Value of Your Freelance Writing Freelance writers are, for the most part, not necessarily big fans of "sales." As professional writers we would prefer to crank out powerful new articles and content for our clients rather than "pound the pavement" or make cold calls to would-be clients. Unfortunately, sales is a big part [...]
If you manage a lot of WordPress blogs, you might have noticed that TONS of your plug-ins had upgrades waiting today. Wondering where all of the WordPress plug-in updates came from? WordPress 2.8 was released, and the best plug-in authors and developers are on it, releasing new versions of their plugins to ensure full compatibility. [...]
One of the things that make WordPress the dominant blogging platform on the Internet is that it is free and customizable. It is so customizable that there are thousands of themes available. A theme is a set of files and functions that produce a unique look and design for any WordPress website. There are free [...]
This blog, and all of my other “serious” websites, are built on WordPress. I’ve tried Blogger, but just can’t seem to get into it, and frankly, if you are going to build up an empire of websites, the blogging ones should pretty much be built on WordPress or Blogger. As you know, I am a [...]
So, my experiment with automatic tweets via the TweetSuite plug-in hit a bit of snag recently. My Twitter followers aren’t huge, but enough to make it worth while. I’ve been auto tweeting my WordPress posts over to Twitter for a while now, so it would seem that no one is too offended or put off [...]
Automatic tweets being sent off every time you post in your blog is a good way to make sure everyone knows that you have updated, even if they don’t subscribe to your RSS feed.
Spellchecker can lull even the most detail oriented person to sleep. Sometimes, as you push a late night deadline, or pull and all nighter to finish that big project, you can help but start hitting “Change” or even “Change All” whenever the spell check box pops up on the screen. Then, one day you are [...]
A nice tool to help take your online writing and blogging to the next level.
