Jobs

Allison on December 9th, 2009

If you have been reading my blog recently you will know that I have been setting myself some new writing goals for 2010.

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Allison on December 5th, 2009

We all have our own little ways and means, don’t we?

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Allison on November 20th, 2009

Yes, it is. But that would make an unbelievably short blog post wouldn’t it, so let me go into a bit more depth.

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Allison on November 18th, 2009

I did today. Let’s face it, most of the writing jobs you find online tend to fall into the same groups over and over again. It’s not often you see a job asking for quizzes, so I applied.

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Allison on October 28th, 2009

Some online writers earn peanuts. Others earn enough to only work part time for a full time – and very nice sized – wage.

So how do you make sure you fall into the second group?

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Allison on September 23rd, 2009

The answer has to be “plenty”. But quite often we find ourselves visiting the same old sites we always visit. It can be tough to inject any new excitement into our search for writing jobs. And yet when most writers are heading towards the same old sources all the time, it means there is a heck of a lot of competition out there you are up against.

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Allison on September 14th, 2009

Money is one of the big bones of contention with lots of online writers. Some who are new to the game visit some of the big freelance bidding sites and see the lowly rates offered by some of the buyers there. They then see the freelance writers who are willing to write for those amounts. Small wonder so many would-be writers are put off from even getting started when they see those results.

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Allison on August 25th, 2009

How indeed? Finding article buyers is a constant task for all freelance writers, whatever markets you aim for and whether they are online or off.

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Whew – okay first of all I apologise for the long title! But this is something that people do search for and ask about, so I thought it warranted an answer.

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Allison on August 11th, 2009

I thought it was about time I did another entry in the “Page of Fives” part of my blog. Now one of my main focuses on this writing blog as we move forward together is to share ways in which you can be positive about your writing…

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Allison on July 20th, 2009

Hang on a minute – have I strayed into computer lessons here?

Well I suppose I have in a way, but this has every relevance to your writing, so bear with me!

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People always say that earning money as a freelance writer is fraught with danger. You never know when your next job is coming in…

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Allison on July 11th, 2009

This thought occurred to me today as I was writing a batch of articles for a client. It was one of those jobs where you aren’t given any article titles to work from; they just give you a list of their best performing keywords and the rest is up to you. Sometimes that makes the job easier, and sometimes it doesn’t!

But it did make me think about my opinion of SEO…

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Allison on October 1st, 2008

Well hello all – I am back from holiday and sitting in my writer’s chair once again! And you know, although it’s always sad to finish a holiday and come back home to normality (especially after the great time we had), I’m ready and raring to go and it was good to start writing again.

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