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

You may think you only need to learn about conversion strategies if you are creating & selling products. Or if you’re a super affiliate, or an aggressive email marketer. But that’s not the case.

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The 32 Most Powerful Conversion Triggers

It would be very much simpler to find a good affiliate program to join if there were not so many options available today. There are currently literally thousands of products online that you can promote as an internet marketing affiliate.

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How to Choose a Good Affiliate Program to Join for Your Internet Based Home Business

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

The teen-aged boy, whose name I didn’t catch, reminded me that “if you take care of your truck, your truck will take care of you.” He was one of a couple dozen young people who were helping to set up the flea market at the Phillipston school. Several pickup trucks were shuttling items from the church basement to the school. I know some of the people, but very few

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Where we belong is where we are

Last week I briefly talked about an easy way to reorder applications in Zoho Business by simply dragging and dropping items on the side bar. When you click on an app on the sidebar, the application launches on the right within Zoho Business. What if you don’t want the application to launch within Zoho Business?

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SideBar options in Zoho Business

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.

Tomorrow’s radio guest will be David Moufarrege, Chief Operating Officer, Americas for Clickworker.com. They are always looking for people from anywhere on the planet who enjoy writing, translating, researching, and data processing. As a Clickworker you earn money working completely independently on your own schedule from any personal computer with

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Work at home job listings for 6/10/2010

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

Through the early 1960s, it was common practice for employers to segregate job listings for men and women. In many cases, identical ads were run for each gender – but with a lower pay rate for the job targeting women.

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Mind the Gap — All the Way to Retirement!

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

Pipeline Publishing (www.pipelinepub.com) is looking for a few dedicated assistants to work with the editorial department of its monthly telecommunications magazine, Pipeline .

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Work-at-Home Copy Editors and More for Publishing Company

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…

Are there times at work when you say to yourself, “Wow I wish I knew that years ago?” With so many graduations this month, I asked people in various professions what work/life and career advice they would offer a new graduate.

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What I Wish I Knew Earlier in My Career

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!

Building an online community for your service or product is one of the most effective ways to promote customer confidence, loyalty and repeat business. It is of course fundamental that when you create a community, you align your brand’s value and identity with your online community.

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Tailoring your Zoho Discussions-powered Online Community – Part I

From Harvey MuddSteve Jobs proved again on Monday that all he needs to do is stand up with an Apple device of some kind and the business press gushes forth with billions of electrons and barrels of ink of fawning attention. So it’s nice to know that the Apple exec (shown, l, in a Monday Reuters news photo at the iPhone4 unveiling) also can be generous in sharing that monumental spotlight on occasion as he did recently by geeking out on the blog of a computer science student in Claremont.

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Student’s blog is briefly apple of Steve Jobs’ eye

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?