Several months ago a friend and colleague with a popular freelance writing blog sent me a letter saying how upset she was that I left a nasty anonymous comment under one of her blog posts. The next day, it happened again. To say I was confused is an understatement especially since I was away during one of those times.

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On Reputation, Influence, Trust and Credibility in the Blogosphere

You’ve heard it a thousand times: the money’s in the list. If you’re serious about getting results online, you need to build a list of people who are paying attention to you, typically an email list

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The Betty Crocker Secret to Email Marketing that Works

How To Find and Land Freelance Writing Gigsis an ever growing category listing articles about how to get freelance writing jobs and the article, How to land a writing job is aimed at helping you when you apply to one of the freelance …

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72 Freelance Writing Jobs For Friday, March 19, 2010

Disjointed thought #1: Marketplace Reviews Update Lately, I haven’t had any marketplace reviews for you, so I thought I’d at least let you know what’s going on with my research.

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Three Disjointed Thoughts of One Freelance Writer–Residuals, Content Mills & Fun

Technical writing–have you ever wondered if it could be right for you? We’ve talked about technical writing here on Freelance Writing Jobs before. In this post , I include technical writing as one of twelve high paying writing jobs.

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Technical Writing–What’s It Like?

As mentioned in other posts, I’m writing my first book. This has always been my dream, but I’ve never actually taken the steps to write a book because I find the process so intimidating.  I decided however, that this would be the year. I also decided that I would blog the book process so that those of you who wish to experience this will know what to expect.

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Writing a Book: The Beginnings

This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. Nicole Johnson wants to get babies and their moms some much-needed rest. She’s packed napping plans, schedules, and strategies into her $37 ebook/consultation package.

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Landing Page Makeover Clinic #23: BabyNapsWell.com

Last time I walked us through a successful query letter writing , pointing out a few tips for you to review your own query letters.  Now I want to talk to you about something that requires a little bit more confidence a few extra ninja skills; I just call querying out of the box . You might hear these called letters of interest, because it is when you are querying a potential client when there isn’t any writers guidelines or job posting.

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Query Letter Writing: Querying Out of the Box

Being the top blog for freelance writers used to mean a lot to me and I worked very hard to achieve that goal. I wasn’t necessarily working to become number one, being a success was more important than being the top blogger in this very crowded niche

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Why I Don’t Want to Be Number One Anymore

No one likes to be fired . If you were recently laid off or let go, you’re probably very angry or upset about losing a client.

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Fired! Do’s and Don’ts for the Recently Laid Off or Let Go

Freelance Writing Jobs with the Federal GovernmentWhen I heard about a colleague who had recently edited a set of journals for the US Government, I wanted to know how to get in on that kind of job ! It took me three days, …

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Make More Money: Freelance Writing Jobs with the Federal Government

Many freelance writers are reluctant to explore the world of writing SEO content and many others dismiss the idea completely, believing that it’s a nickel-and-dime pursuit best left to low-pay grinders and other hacks.  For whatever reason, the term “SEO content” conjures up a lot of negative imagery with some writers. They’re missing out on great opportunities. There is a part of the SEO content world that is gruesome.  You will find the clients looking for keyword-rich articles at  a buck a pop on the bid boards.  They aren’t particularly concerned about quality, accuracy, style or anything else other than having the right keywords laced into something that approximates complete sentences and that will clear the Copyscape hurdle

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Freelance Writing Opportunities in SEO Content

A lot of people email me. They are like, “Clint. You should probably pay your credit card bill.” They’re unprofessional emails, and I refuse to deal with a bank that can’t personally call me and ask me nicely if I’d like to give them money as a gift since they’re having a tough time this month

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5 Freelance Productivity Tips

I often talk about how I find freelance writing jobs , but one thing we don’t really discuss is where YOU find freelance writing jobs.

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Your Turn: Where Do YOU Find Freelance Writing Jobs?

Today I’d like to talk about blog comment etiquette — some dos and don’ts I guess you could say when it comes to commenting on others’ blogs. This issue comes to mind periodically regarding over-linking, but I never considered it worth its own post

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Thoughts on Blog Comment Etiquette

The designer and I finally finished up the design side of the AFW update I mentioned previously. The PSDs are off to the coder, and hopefully we’ll have them ready to live on the site in the next week or so. I wanted to give you an early preview so there are no surprises when it happens.

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All Freelance Writing Design Update Preview

I went to South by Southwest and all I got was a stinking t-shirt and a bunch of Zone bars….oh yeah and a kick ass part time job offer and publisher interest in my book. Yes, this is another post about why you need to step away from your laptop and meet people face to face .

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Yet Another Post About Why Face to Face Networking is So Important

When I heard about a colleague who had recently edited a set of journals for the U.S. Government, I wanted to know how to get in on that kind of  job! It took me three days, but I slowly worked my way through the process of becoming a registered government contractor, and I took notes for fellow freelancers the whole way through.

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Freelance Writing Jobs with the Federal Government

There’s been a lot of talk about accountability on All Freelance Writing recently, and that’s important to any aspect of the freelance writing business. I’m bringing you a post today about something very basic, but in that, integral to a freelance writer, and I want you to think about accountability as you read this. I recently fired a mentee.

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The Organized Writing Process Resource Post

Have you discovered the Lazy Rich Blogger training? I’ve just written a press release Angela Booth Launches the Lazy Rich Blogger Method: Instant Publishing to Achieve Business and Personal Goals: “The Lazy Rich Blogger training teaches a complete blogging method.

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Complete blogging training: Lazy Rich Blogger