Writing Jobs Search Websites – CareerBuilder
One of the toughest things for any professional writer, whether an experienced freelance writer or someone just starting a new freelance writing business, is to find new writing jobs. Even freelancers with a full project pipeline need to keep an eye on the future in order to ensure a steady stream of income from writing lest they find themselves evicted from the comfy work at home office and back into the faux-leather chairs of corporate America’s cubicles. There are many ways to find freelance writing jobs ranging from using job boards and writing forums dedicated to freelance gigs and writing [...]
Freelance Writing Gigs Website Sold
I’m not going to get all emotional or anything, but something a little bit sad happened today that happens to hit home on a personal level for me as a successful freelance writer. When I first started my freelance writing business a few years ago, I did not really know how to go about finding freelance writing gigs without cold-calling businesses or waiting for someone who knew I was a good writer to ask me to write something for them. Obviously, this is a good way to both starve to death (waiting) and to crush your soul (cold-calling). For months [...]
Freelance Writing Tips and Interesting News From Elsewhere
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 agree with, but rather interesting or otherwise helpful information that made me stop and take note. First up, is this post, which while I’m sure is not the official release, nor the original mention of the news, was the first one I happened to come [...]
Writing For Demand Studios Just Got Better
From time to time I’ve tossed out some of my ideas about how to run a freelance writing business. One of my key concepts for starting a successful freelance writing small business is that you have to be able to fill in those time periods where the business does not have enough freelance writing projects or a deep enough pipeline to keep the revenue flowing into the business. Spend all of your time going for projects you have a 20% shot of getting and there are going to be some months where the incoming cash-flow is going to be very [...]
Do Frequent Updates Doom Writings to Obsolescence?
Today’s post comes courtesy of the guy/gal/folks who run PoeWar.com. If you do enough online reading about writing and freelancing you will eventually come across the PoeWar site. I remember it from my early days, and sure enough, it’s bookmark resides within my oldest links. Yet, I never really seem to end up at PoeWar on a regular basis, and it doesn’t have a spot in my recently reconfigured Speed Dial under "Business", "Writing", or "Freelance". That seemed odd, because it is a great resource with a lot of useful information. However, as I was getting ready to leave a [...]
Top Webhosts For Writers
Someone recently asked me to write an article about the Best Hosting For Freelance Writers. It’s a great suggestion. There is only one problem, I’m not really qualified to write that article due to lack of experience with more than a couple of them. I will, however, relay that experience here, and also point out other webhosting that has been recommended by sources I trust. Just keep in mind that except for these first three, I have no personal experience with any of them. Web Hosting Services I Have Personally Used Yahoo Small Business Hosting – Do NOT use Yahoo [...]
