The No. 1 Reason You’re Not Making Money Writing
The top piece of advice I give to writing workshop attendees and others who want to know the secret to making money writing: Put your butt in the seat and write. Simple, right? Not at all. The top...
View Article7 Tips for Marketing Your Books and Writing Using Social Networks
So you’ve gotten your book published and you’re ready to hop onto your social networks to tell everyone to buy it. Right? Wrong. Social networks have to be a part of the arsenal of any writer who wants...
View ArticleYou Get to Decide How Your Writing Life Will Look
It’s always a great feeling when you open your email or answer a phone call to find that somebody wants to pay you. To write. After all, when writing and money go together, it’s a beautiful thing....
View ArticleHow to Use Craigslist to Get Writing Projects — Without Getting Stuck With A...
Craigslist is almost the last place you want to look for writing gigs. That is, unless you do it right. Most writers who try to use Craigslist to get business do so by scouring and responding to posts...
View Article3 Championship Tips for a Brilliant Writing Career
You would love to build an amazing writing career. You know the technical details: How to structure a quote, how to find clients, even how to use social media to get new business. But stringing...
View Article3 Ways Your Freelance Business Can Bring in Quick Money
A successful freelance business will have one thing that shows up from time to time: a cash emergency. Sometimes it will happen when you are just starting out. Sometimes it will happen when you are...
View ArticleLesson for Writers: Forget Writing, Focus on Perception of Value
Newsweek is shutting down its print edition at the end of this year and moving to a completely digital format in the early part of 2013, editor Tina Brown announced today. Newsweek had earlier — in...
View ArticleWant to Land More Clients, Have More Influence? Connect and Conquer
I’m excited about the release of my next ebook, Connect and Conquer: How to Nurture Your Business Through Online and Offline Networking. It’s an ebook to help you tap into your relationships to grow...
View Article10 Ways to Generate Buzz and Market Your Business
I wrote a post the other day about the best way to market your book, writing career, or business. I said the best way to market your work is the way you will actually use. The thing you will actually...
View ArticleHow to Produce Freelance Story Ideas That Make Editors Love You
If you are a freelance newspaper or magazine writer, you are constantly in need of story ideas. As editorial budgets get squeezed and editors are making do with fewer staffers, the opportunities for...
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