How I Can Instantly Tell Who’s Going to Be a Successful Freelance Writer
I teach a lot of people how to become freelance writers. Some of them want me to reassure them they’re good enough writers. Some ask me questions about every tiny detail to make sure they’re doing it...
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How to Make Sure Freelance Writing Doesn’t Ruin Your Life
Ever been in this situation? You’ve got a shitload of work to do, but you’re putting it off just because, you know — procrastination. But the longer you put it off, the higher the pile gets, and the...
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How to Get Clients as a Total Newbie — Without Lying About Your Experience
One of the biggest fears new freelance writers have is being ‘found out’. Exposed as a fraud. Called out on their lack of experience. They worry that if a client guesses they’re totally new to this...
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What to Do When Your Clients are Getting You Down
You’ve heard the old adage ‘the customer’s always right’, haven’t you? Course you have. You’re a human person with ears. Speaking from eight years of experience working in bars, I can report that that...
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The Difference Between SEO Articles and Blog Posts
There’s a lot of confusion these days about the difference between SEO articles and blog posts — and rightly so, because the lines are blurring. Simply put: SEO articles are written purely with the...
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Announcing: Start Content Writing — Build a Freelance Writing Business You...
Back in January, in a post about my goals for the year, I mentioned two courses I planned to create: The Advanced Class and The Master Class. I ran the first iteration of The Advanced Class behind the...
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Why You Shouldn’t Sell SEO Articles Alongside Blog Posts
I hear from a lot of my Start SEO Writing students who want to add blog posts, copywriting and other types of content to their services. And time and again, I tell them not to. Marketing SEO articles...
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Should You Refer to Yourself as ‘We’ On Your Website?
Hey, so remember that time we talked about how fucking douchey it is to talk about yourself in the third person on your own website? Yeah, I’m really glad you decided to stop doing that, because ugh....
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How to Make a Freelance Writing Website: A Comprehensive Guide
You could argue that you don’t need a website to become a freelance writer. You could. But then I would tell you to sit down, shut the fuck up, and listen to this. While yes, you may be able to snag...
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How NOT to Open Your Website
How many times have you seen one of the following when you first landed on a website? ‘Hello!’ ‘Welcome!’ ‘Welcome to [site name]!’ ‘Welcome to my little corner of the internet!’ And how many times did...
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How Carlo Makes 5 Figures a Month Through His Writing Biz — Without Writing...
My buddy Carlo Cretaro runs a content writing business exclusively over the web. That means he has the freedom to travel the world, going wherever he wants whenever he wants, so long as he’s got his...
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Should You Offer Other Services Alongside Writing?
One of the students on my new course emailed me about his idea to add some other services to his new writing business — services such as web development, UX design, SEO, etc. He already has experience...
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Why I Won’t Be Launching My New Blog After All
You may remember back in June I announced I was going to start a new blog — a more personal one. After a life-affirming week in Berlin, I remembered what life was all about (again), and that it...
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3 Things You Must Do Before Starting Work with a Client
When you’re a new freelance writer, you may be tempted to dive into a project straightaway, no questions asked, because you’re terrified the client will change their mind about working with you, or,...
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How to Set Up a Professional Email Address
When you start out as a freelance writer, every element of how you present yourself is important. If you have an ugly website, people will think you’re an amateur. If your punctuation and spelling and...
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Life as a Freelancer and Mother of Toddlers: An Interview with Gina Horkey
I met Gina — a fellow freelance writer/biz owner — on Twitter a few months ago, and we quickly to decided to hop on a Google Hangout to get to know each other a bit better, as you do. (Oh internets, I...
View ArticleIs Your Fear Keeping Your Rates Low?
If you ever want to start making decent money from freelance writing, you must stop operating from a place of fear and scarcity — feeling like this client is the only client you’ll ever have, and that...
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