Many of you probably caught this post on PBS.org about content farms last week . When I read it, I found it very interesting that Demand Media turned down the opportunity to be interviewed for the piece. Usually, they can’t be tamed when it comes to spouting their really cool: Hey, we never said we were journalists… but look at our awesome brand of service journalism (not to be confused with actual journalism because we’ve added another word IN FRONT of journalism.

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Demand Media Strikes Back at PBS and Writers Everywhere – Yawn

We’re switching gears with the All Freelance Writing virtual book club this month. Remember that this book club is not only for freelance writers, but also for authors and aspiring authors

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July 2010 Book Club Discussion – Write That Book Already!

It’s that time again — time to vote for next month’s book of the month for the All Freelance Writing book club (and later today we’ll kick off discussions about this month’s pick – Write That Book Already! ).

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Vote for August’s Book Club Pick of the Month

Published authors all over the world are migrating from bookstores to online ebook sales in an endeavor to increase their book sales. Many of them are also making a transition from producing printed books to creating ebooks that don’t require expensive print processes and binding, or costly transportation for distribution

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Print Books to Writing and Selling Ebooks: Making the Transition

Since a writer I know keeps very specific records, one can easily see the arc of that freelance business with a few clicks of the mouse, and a few manipulations of the spreadsheet. (By the way, you can download a similar spreadsheet from our forum ). So, I thought now would be a good time to do a mid year check in

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Mid Year Check In- How’s the Freelance Writing Business Going?

So, you’ve heard my take on why guest blogging is important . Over the years, you’ve probably seen other popular bloggers talking about it too

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Introducing GuestBlogging.com (Check out the Free Videos)

While I certainly don’t claim to be an expert about book writing and publishing, I have had 6 books published by major publishers, and I’m writing my 7th.  Therefore, I feel like I can answer at least some questions about book writing and publishing.

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Book Writing and Publishing FAQ – Do I Need to Write My Book Before I Try to Get an Agent or Publisher?

While going through other schedule changes recently announced for All Freelance Writing, I put out an offer to two of our writers that will take them away from this blog. They both accepted, so I wanted to let everyone know about the change.

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Two Writers Leaving All Freelance Writing

Lily Delaney discovers that maybe no one wants to publish her short story because no one wants to publish Micheal Park.

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Author of Fortune: “The Short Story That Came Up Short”

Non-native writers face discrimination online. Much of this negativity come for failing to write English “properly” – at least according to prospective clients. Looking been around various forums and markets, I’ve come across more than a few exclusionary advertisements about “native English speakers only” and such.

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ESL Discrimination: Real or Ridiculous?

It’s almost time to start another year! Parents and teachers know exactly what I’m talking about.

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One Writing Mom’s (Realistic) Goals for the New Year

It’s time for Part 4 of the Building Your Freelance Writing Brand series here on Freelance Writing Jobs, and today, you’ll learn about manipulating search engine results and how to handle negative conversations about your brand online.  You can find links to Parts 1-3 of the series at the end of this post. First, it’s important to understand that this is not a lesson in search engine optimization, although some of the suggestions in Part 3 and Part 4 of the Building Your Freelance Writing Brand series certainly do apply to SEO as well. With that said, here we go… What kind of results do you get when you Google your name or your freelance writing brand name (if it’s different from your personal name)?  Are they the results that you want people to find when they type your name into the Google search box?  If not, then you have some work to do if you want to build your online brand reputation and build your business.  Fortunately, writers are in the perfect position to do exactly that because we’re great at creating content!  With a bit of strategy, we’re positioned to be the best content marketers! The key to manipulating search engine results is to leverage the power of the compounding effect of blogging and content sharing as discussed in Part 3 of the Building Your Freelance Writing Brand series.  Generating incoming links to your own amazing content and getting others to write about you and your amazing content are the free and easy steps that you can take to begin the process of adjusting search engine results for your name.

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Building Your Freelance Writing Brand – Part 4

I don’t talk about finances much here other than issues revolving around rates and making money. That’s an area where I know my stuff, but I leave the rest to our resident financial experts. Today though I want to talk about money — my money — with a personal look at how freelance success has, and hasn’t, changed how I spend

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Money and the Freelance Life (or Why I Drive a Really Old Car)

We have a few changes happening at All Freelance Writing, and I wanted to make you aware of them. Here’s the rundown: Matt Willard was doing a trends-focused humor series here

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Some Blog Schedule Changes You Should Know About

Yesterday on Twitter I noted that I finally made a decision regarding the book I’m working on — The Query-Free Freelancer — and whether I would pursue a traditional publisher or opt to self-publish the book. I’ve chosen the latter

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Why I Won’t Pursue a Publisher for The Query-Free Freelancer

Last week, I published an article called 5 Online Tools Freelance Writers Can Use to Make Life and Business Easier , which offered my suggestions for free and cheap tools that any freelance writer can try.  One of the items on that list was Skype, which enables you to make free calls (including international calls) from your computer.  Skype is free and not only helps freelance writers manage client communication, but it’s also an incredible tool for conducting audio and video interviews. Want to see a sample of a video taken via a Skype call?  Check out the videos I took using Call Recorder for Mac (discussed later in this post) for Newstex.com .  The video recording feature in Call Recorder allows you to record both parties on the call (using a picture-in-picture feature) or just one party (which is great for those of us who work at home in our pajamas).  You control everything on your end.  The person on the other end of the call just needs a Skype account, a webcam, and a microphone

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Tools to Record Interviews Using Skype

This is another addition to our ongoing series of tutorials and case studies on landing pages that work. Daniel Heuman’s software helps writers, editors, translators, and proofreaders prepare error-free documents with greater ease and speed.

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Landing Page Makeover Clinic #28: IntelligentEditing.com

Writing has become a commodity: “content”. It’s all very sad, but there’s no going back. If you aspire to writing success these days you need to be aware of the changes in all areas of publishing, and adapt.

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You, the Writing Entrepreneur: Writing and Thriving, Despite the Content Mills

As the summer is winding down here in the northern half of the world, it’s easy to feel frustrated.  Writers have a tendency to lock ourselves in our offices sitting behind our computers and getting lost in our own minds.  Let’s face it.  Even if we’re writing from the beach, we’re still trapped behind our laptops and usually lost in our own minds. With just a few weeks left before children head back to school and we lose yet another sunny day, let’s take a few minutes to remember that writing can be addictive, but it’s important for our mental and physical health to step away from our computers, escape from our minds, and enjoy life.

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Getting through the Summer Writing Blues

I’ve been having an exchange with a Kontera rep about implementing their ads on this and other sites I own. As you might already know I’m not a huge fan of Google’s Adsense network, although we still use them here minimally. While I plan to keep advertisements to a minimum on this site, other than promoting my own products and affiliate products I test and can honestly recommend, I’d like to test them for a few weeks in addition to the ads we currently run.

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All Freelance Writing Ad Testing – Kontera