So I missed the last couple of freelance fitness posts. I’d like to say it’s because I was just sooooo busy hiking my ass off that there wasn’t time. But that would be a lie.

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Freelance Fitness: The Wonders of Workout Videos

In five years only Deborah Ng has grown The Freelance Writing Jobs Network from scratch to one of the most important and powerful communities for freelance online authors. Deborah, @Debng, announced today that Splashpress Media, …

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Splashpress Media Acquires 'The Freelance Writing Jobs Network …

From time to time I run into this situation: my schedule becomes so full of projects that I barely have enough time to market my services. While it would be easy to let this slide for a few weeks (or even longer) I know that marketing is the key to long term success.

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How to make Time for Marketing when your Schedule is Full

I’ve never met a freelance writer who wasn’t at least a little bit of an injo-junkie. Whether it’s jotting down names and numbers in the line at the supermarket when you find someone who could be a great source or spending hours online reading web pages and copying great lines for your swipe file, a good freelance writer is always collecting notes and new ideas. Of course, if you don’t have some sort of system for managing all of that information, all of those notes could turn into a problem, rather than the resource they should be

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5 Starting Points for Building an Information System

Time to check in with one of our favorite former content mill writers, Stacey Abler . Here’s what she’s been up to during the previous week, and where she’s going this week: What’s Stacy Been Up To

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Weekly Coaching Update – Stacey Abler – June 13, 2010

Last week I mentioned that I was moving away from more traditional construction DIY projects and focusing on those that could have an actual impact upon your freelance writing business. Starting with how to install a WordPress theme on your freelance writing blog last week, this week we’re going to take an introductory look into how to promote your freelance writing blog using 5 different social media tools. N.B.

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How To Promote Your Freelance Writing Blog Using Social Media

The following is a transcript of the Copyblogger editorial meeting in Austin, Texas, on June 8, 2010. BRIAN CLARK: I’ve had it up to here with Johnny Marr

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Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of June 7, 2010

Roger Ebert’s name is synonymous with movie reviews. Many of us remember him bantering with Gene Siskel on the TV shows Sneak Previews and At the Movies . But he doesn’t banter much anymore

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What All Content Creators Need to Learn From Roger Ebert

Lack of confidence can be a major roadblock for a freelance writer. We’ve already explained how a lack of confidence can keep potential writers from starting their freelance careers. Did you know that lack of confidence can also keep freelance writers from applying for bigger, better paying gigs as well

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Do You Have the Confidence to Apply for the Bigger Jobs?

This week, after much thought and back and forth arguing with my other personalities, I bought a Kindle. Now, anyone who knows me knows that as much as I like computers, laptops, and televisions, I kinda hate technology. I hate GPS systems because I like to rely on my own little sense of direction; I hate cell phones because I don’t like being accessible at all times and don’t really enjoy talking on the phone anyway; I’m not a fan of texting and I don’t like the iPad.

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Amazon Kindle: Good for Freelance Writing Work and Play but Useless as a Coaster.

Remember those puzzles you used to do when you were six or seven? That mass of dots and numbers on a page just looked like a mess. But when you went through and connected dot 1 to dot 2, moving on through dots 100 and 101, you wound up with a picture of a pony.

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Play Connect-the-Dots to Win at Online Marketing

A lot of famous people have died recently. Gary Coleman, Dennis Hopper, Rue McClanahan…they graced this earth with their presence, and I’m sorry to see them go.

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Final Exit, or “Win A Chance To Meet Gary Coleman…The Hard Way”

Unfortunately, the world of query letter writing is one of numbers:  the more you write, the more responses you get.  Now that gets a little daunting at first, because you might not get any (or few) replies – even rejections!  Hopefully, if you’re following along with our other query letter tips, you’ll be getting better and better

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Query Letter Writing: Get Organized

Deb provides me with this great platform and I have the chance to reach out and share something of value with so many people. But this time, I’m being a little selfish.  This post is about me and how you can help me

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This is the Part Where You Solve My Problems… Advice on Workload Reduction…

oDesk has decided to make MY life easier as a freelancer by offering me benefits that only an employer would offer–decisions I’d rather make for myself now completely done for me! Finally, no more troublesome thinking! That gives me more mental bandwidth for thinking about things like gadgets and power tools and sports! The whole reason I became a freelancer was so that I could have decisions made for me. I like being lorded over

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oDesk Offers Health Insurance!

Quarterly estimated taxes are coming up next Tuesday. Honestly, I don’t really like to think about emptying my pockets for Uncle Sam until I absolutely have to, but paying quarterly taxes in April, June, September and January Is just a sad fact of life for we poor, suffering freelance writers

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Alleviate Quarterly Estimated Tax Burden By Paying… Monthly?

If you have a blog, you tell stories. You may have dealt with the frustration of not having very many people see your stories, of not having enough subscribers or readers. Nevertheless, you keep on documenting your story in your blog posts, your Facebook status updates, your Twitter feed.

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How to Use Stories to Change the World

I’ll just say this–thank god there’s summer programming. All my favorite TV shows with one exception are off the air and I’d be bored during the day if it weren’t for the Food Network anyway, but there’s a few shows that have started to tide me over until fall. What did people do in the days before cable?

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Freelance Writing Jobs – June 8th, 2010

Being a freelance writer and working from home are great. There are some obvious cost savings. For example, you won’t have to pay the cost of commuting to and from work, so you’ll save money on gas.

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Is Working From Home Really Cheaper?

Our contest for Peter Bowerman’s The Well-Fed Writer (our book club pick of the month) is now over. The following two folks were our winners: First Place Mark Hopkins was our first prize winner, winning a hard copy version of The Well-Fed Writer. His submission in 5 words or less explaining why he deserved to win the book was: “Writing dream, lost in corporate.” Second Place Our second prize winner, winning the e-book version of The Well-Fed Writer, was Amy Blades with: “I’m skeptical

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Well-Fed Writer Contest Winners Announced