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

For the past few months in this series, I’ve been focusing on more practical DIY projects; things that would be considered to be traditionally ‘Do-It-Yourself’. I’m making a bit of a change from now on and am going to start  looking at DIY projects that are less focused on building and construction and look more at aspects that will benefit your actual freelance writing business.

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Sorry for the late update this week, but it’s another exciting one for Stacey, and worth the wait I think. Let’s get to it: What’s Stacey Been Up To? Stacey’s still building her blog, commenting on others, etc.

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Weekly Coaching Update – Stacey Abler – June 6, 2010

WG says: real writing job search « Freelance Jobs Articles « Articles … Freelance writing is one of the easiest ways to make money online, on top of that it’s risk free. People are using real writing jobs as a part time job to pay… …

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Freelance Writing News – 400th Edition « Freelance Writing News …

The thing about a well-researched article is that you’re probably only going to sell it once. If you’re really on top of the ball, you may sell the reprint rights or put it into a larger piece of work, but the bottom line is that you can do hours of research and still only sell an article once

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Reusing Research: Making Your Work Twice as Useful

As you know by now, marketing is a big part of achieving success as a freelance writer. But along with this, it can also take up a big chunk of your day if you are not careful. While you want to spend time marketing your services, you still need to complete your client work on time

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Standard Templates for Marketing your Services

It’s that time again — time to think about ways we can be healthier, happier, and more productive in our coming work week.

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Freelance Fitness: Yoga at Your Desk

As I announced earlier today, Peter Bowerman’s award-winning book — The Well-Fed Writer — will be our first featured title in the All Freelance Writing Virtual Book Club. It’s time to get your copy if you’d like to take part. Not ready to run out and buy a copy just yet?

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Win a Copy of Peter Bowerman’s Well-Fed Writer

I decided this week that social media has jumped the shark. It happened when I tweeted from the dentist’s chair to announce I was in the dentist’s chair. I thought, “This is something the world needs to know about.” Strangely, the world was apathetic, and no conversations ensued.

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Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of May 24, 2010

It’s time to announce the first book to be featured in our virtual book club for freelance writers, authors, and aspiring authors. I’ll also cover how things will work moving forward, and you can sign up by leaving a comment to that effect (if you sign up, it would be a good idea to subscribe to the comments, so you get email notification when I comment here reminding you of the book’s discussion day).

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All Freelance Writing Virtual Book Club – June Book Choice and Sign-Up

Last week we didn’t have any terribly exciting updates about Stacey’s coaching progress — just work being done on her end to try to push the platform building. I also mentioned that I recommended Stacey start pitching some potential clients directly in the meantime until her platform does most of the work for her

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Weekly Coaching Update – Stacey Abler – May 28, 2010