Online Marketing Guide for Freelance Writers
Actually, this is an online marketing guide for everyone, but it should be used extensively by freelance writers as well. If you know anything about online marketing, SEO, or social networking (social marketing, to some) you know that there are tons of sites out there and even more ways to use those websites, services, and the like to market your freelance writing business online. In fact, there are so many different things that you could do that to learn about all of them would take so long that you would never have any time to actually earn money writing. On [...]
Freelance Writer Blog Posts
If you are going to earn money writing online, you are going to need a website. If you are going to have a website that attracts enough attention from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Altavista, and others to actually drive any traffic to your website, you are going to need a blog or other section of your small business website that gets updated on a regular basis. If you are going to have enough time to dedicate to being an entrepreneur and running your small business successfully, you will occassionally find it difficult to update your blog as often as you would [...]
Yahoo Style Guide AP Style For The Web
As we mentioned earlier, Yahoo has taken on the task of producing a “style guide” for the Internet. Those of you who are already in the professional writing business know about the different writing styles out there. There is AP Style, which is based upon a book by AP called The Associated Press Stylebook. Then there is the MLA stylebook and a couple of others as well. For those of you not in the freelance writing business, the point of all these style guides is to fill in some of the language gaps that exist between the grammar manuals, like [...]
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 [...]
Is Examiner.com Worth It For Writers?
Although it was not my intention when I started writing a blog for freelance writers and businesses who hire freelance writers, a lot of the new readers here at the ArcticLlama freelance writing business blog come from people searching for advice on where to write online for money. In particular, people search to find out whether or not it is worth it to write for Demand Studios and if Guru.com is worth it, and lately, whether or not writing gigs on Elance.com are worth it. (I have a review of a how to make money on Elance ebook coming up [...]
Webhosting Service Unbiased Comparison
Finding useful webhosting information is next to impossible. Most of the big, brand-name webhost companies out there offer very sizable pay to affiliates who refer people to their service. That means that almost every single comment on the entire Internet about which web hosting services are good and which web hosts are bad is tainted by a giant conflict of interest. I’ll try and spare you the details of how I know this, or why my freelance writing business and I are innocent (but, really I am.) If you happen to see any webhosting advertisements while you are reading this [...]
Guru.com Discontinues Freelancer Rank Will Now Sort By Earnings
Post by Brian E Nelson – In an email notice to freelance members of Guru.com (also here), the company announced that it was ending it Freelancer Rank system. The notice says that “upon closer examination,” that Rank is flawed and out of date. Further, it states that there is no legitimate way to rank the wide variations in skills sets that individual professionals bring to Guru when the bid for freelance projects. As most of you are aware, I have never put too much effort in to Guru. After considering is Guru.com worth it, I came to the conclusion that [...]
Writing For Elance – New Getting Paid Option Added
I am a registered user at Elance, although I’ve never really done too much with the website. A while back I looked into whether or not Elance was a legitimate way to find freelance writing gigs and came to the conclusion that while it might be fine for some people, that it just didn’t really fit within my freelance writing business model at the time, although I am preparing to re-evaluate that. You can see my analysis at is Elance worth it. You can also check out my look at is Guru.com worth it. (Note on the above. I have [...]
Freelance Writing Value Proposition
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 of freelance writing, especially for those just starting a new freelance writing business from scratch. In an effort to develop sales skills some freelancers turn to sales training seminars or sales training books. Most of these courses offer up the same core knowledge. Some of [...]
Get More Search Engine Traffic By Changing Your Writing … for the Worse!
To get more search engine traffic there are a lot of things you can do. You can read all about search engine optimization until you go blind. You could even hire an SEO consultant if you have money to burn. You could comment on a thousand blogs a day with a link back to your website. You could research keywords with Google’s keyword tool, the AdSense keyword tool, and the AdWords keyword tool. And, don’t forget about the Google keyword research tool. What the–? Has Arctic Llama lost his mind? Aren’t all of those tools listed up there the same [...]
