Web Writing Info

My need for a “sabbatical” resulted from something I’m going to term “web content writing burnout.” I’ve seen it happen a lot before, and remember reading a lengthy post on a message board when I first started writing online. At the time it seemed like a foreign problem that I’d never encounter. I was so […]

The wahm.com writing message board was all a flutter this week when it was leaked as a “secret source” for cheap labor in an outsourcing report. People popped out of the woodwork looking for content to be written for a whopping $3 per 500 words. The responses ranged from horror to non-chalant. Some wahms were […]

I ran across a post on the Warrior Forum the other day asking this very question. Why aren’t more writers marketers?  The response to this question in the thread ranged from “I’m trying!” to “There’s no way I’d want to market…writing is much better.”
I used to ask this question myself, until I started doing more […]

More and more each day I see Internet marketers talking about offline marketing. From forum posts to newsletters to blogs, offline marketing is hot business. If you’re a Warrior forum member, you know that a lot of time and attention has been spent lately on using online marketing skills to help businesses locally. The dark […]

As I stared at another huge receipt for gas in my husband’s car, I began to wonder what my work-related expenses really looked like. Although I’ve been happily puttering around town with the gas light on for the last week, my freelance business is not without expenses. Here they are for August:
Internet access (bundled with […]

I know I’m going to ruffle some feathers with this one but I feel like it has to be said. I see a lot of badmouthing $5 article writers and it’s definitely understandable. I get annoyed when someone inquires about my services and then disappears when I mention price. It’s frustrating to bid on projects […]

Whew! I just caught my breath after writing over 60 articles in the last two and half weeks, and 50 of them were 800 words!
I have about a dozen different topics in my blog’s drafts folder and, as per usual, no time to put them into a coherent order. So instead I’d like to share […]

by Sandi Valentine
When I started working at home as a writer a year ago, I had virtually no other web based skills. I knew less than nothing about SEO, Wordpress, niche websites, or Internet Marketing. It was like walking into a different world and not knowing how to speak the language. However, a close friend […]

change where you are going! I don’t know about you but it seems like the writing community has the “blahs” with this new year. I don’t know if it has to do with the busy holiday season, the $3 article junk or what….but I can feel it on every blog and board I visit.
Apparently, I’m […]

It wasn’t too long after I started writing content that I realized that many of the people I was writing for were middlemen. They were paying me small sums of money to turn around and sell the content at a mark up to other people. It wasn’t too long after that I began learning about […]

by Sandi Valentine
When I started working at home as a writer a year ago, I had virtually no other web based skills. I knew less than nothing about SEO, Wordpress, niche websites, or Internet Marketing. It was like walking into a different world and not knowing how to speak the language. However, a close friend […]

For any of you musical theater fans, you’ll know what I mean when I say I’ve been the “the girl who cain’t say no” lately in my freelance career. It all started with the “holiday rush,” which has lead right into the “paying the closing costs on our new house squeeze.” All in all…I’m one […]

I’ve always referred to my clients as clients, and not customers, because it felt more personal and professional. I intuitively knew there was a difference between the meaning of the two words, but never really looked up the definition. I found this today, from Jay Abraham, and I think it sums up nicely how you […]

I’m dealing with a client this week that I should have “fired” long ago. This particular situation has gotten extremely messy and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy (not that I have enemies!). But it did help me reflect on firing clients, and how to do so easily.
The […]