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Jessie Fitzgerald writes about health and nutrition, especially for direct B2C sales nutritional supplement companies. Hire her at http://healthseocontent.com. Read about becoming a nutrition writer at http://nutritionwriterjobs.com.

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Be a More Productive Blogger

By on August 15th, 2010

Almost all freelance writers that I’ve encountered have their own blogs, blog on other blogs, or blog for clients. This is a task worth mentioning, and for me that means we need to talk about amping up the effectiveness of your blogging. Being successful as a blogger (that is, meeting your blogging goals) can mean many things. It could be to get more readers, subscribers, or comments. It could be to generate more indirect income like affiliate sales or freelance writing work. It could be that you’re looking to monetize your work directly. Whatever your goals, there is one common …

Motivation Beyond Money

By on July 17th, 2010

Here at All Freelance Writing, we all abide to a strict no-getting-screwed policy. I like this policy. We also have an enjoy-your-freelance-writing-business policy, and I like this policy, too. I bring these policies up because I’m talking about doing freelance work when little to no money is involved. I’ll agree with the following rules Jenn has beat into our brains (lovingly) throughout this blog: a member of your target market should be able to pay your rates free work that will help your career should advance your exposure, expertise, and platform (if you must do it) and it shouldn’t be …

The Emotional Side of Productivity

By on July 15th, 2010

I’ve heard it on the TV commercials advertising depression medication, but I didn’t think I would hear myself saying it to my husband, pre-deployment, about my freelance writing business. I experienced / am experiencing a sudden loss of interest in the things I enjoy. Part of it is because of the stress of having a baby (it will change our whole lives—well, it already has) and it is mostly the traumatic sadness of my husband’s deployment. The point is that life changes, and sometimes you aren’t the glorious motivated person you once were. When your productivity is struggling because of …

Why Time Management is So Important for Freelance Writers

By on June 15th, 2010

Discussing time management may be a passion of mine, and a source of a profession, but it has meaning for every freelance writer. Freelance writers work in the truest sense of the word because while other workers, workers with employers, can blog and shop online and play Minesweeper, freelancer writers have to be hard at work writing articles / blog posts / books / copy, keeping track of their bookkeeping, managing their client files, building their marketing platforms to attract business, pitching prospective clients, and updating a business plan that works with the freelance flow. We only have a limited …

Make a Query-Free Writer Marketing Calendar

By on May 15th, 2010

Recent posts at All Freelance Writing have been discussing the efforts of the team members to use query-free writer marketing methods to get their freelance writing businesses going, growing, and profitable. The keyword to all of these posts would be effort: you have to take on tasks every day to market your business, query-free or otherwise. What makes marketing tasks so vital to the query-free writer method is that you need to make regular and consistent progress to develop a platform that brings you work. One of the best ways to get things done is to put them on a …

Organized Marketing

By on April 15th, 2010

I interrupt this scheduled broadcast (a blog post about organized marketing) to bring you an important message from one of the most valuable teachers a freelance writer can ever learn from: experience. As in over the past few weeks I have experienced the loss of two computers and a hard drive and have had to keep business as usual up. This catastrophic situation was made all the less catastrophic by the fact that I’ve done a lot of what LaToya is telling you to do: I’ve got savings and I’ve got an emergency fund. This is a little PSA to …

Preparation Tips for the E-book Challenge

By on April 8th, 2010

I don’t know about you, but I’m super-duper excited about next week’s e-book challenge. I didn’t get to participate in the last one because I was computerless. Because I let a friend borrow my laptop, I am computerless again (they destroyed my hard drive!) but luckily I have the hubby’s computer and I’ll be doing a lot of the work on paper. As the resident neat freak, I’m equally excited about preparing and organizing myself for the e-book challenge. Excited about the prep work or not, it can be simple. Here are some simple organization and productivity tips for the …

Review – Freelancer-Tools.com Article Tracker

By on March 25th, 2010

Jenn was recently contacted by Freelancer-Tools.com and asked if she would review the article tracker they offer on their Web site. Jenn passed this opportunity along to me, and the free beta account along with it. If you’d like to use it, you’re looking at a $5 / month investment. This article tracker is extremely simple-nothing complex beyond your basic HTML coding, and I like this a lot. I found that it is effective as both an inventory and a daily tracker for your progress / output and your earnings. You are able to add clients, and add prices and …

Email Checking Productivity: A Few More Tips for the Battle

By on February 27th, 2010

In January, I posted Slaying the Email Dragon. I was talking with Carol Tice on LinkedIn and she told me that she wished she could follow these rules. In all fairness, those’re some strict rules outlined–you probably have to work up to them. I gave the following advice to Carol, and maybe it can help you too (and be sure to ask me any questions you have and I’ll try my best to help you out): Take small steps. Set a goal (or rather table of goals) to check it only once every 30 minutes, then an hour, then every …

Implementing, Maintaining and Tweaking an Organized Archival System

By on February 18th, 2010

All business owners can suffer through disorganized files and lacking archives, but freelance writers seem to create more papers / files / electronic documents than some would imagine possible.  It’s the general nature of the work. Writers tend to keep and research a lot of things. A solid archival system of frequently backed up files is essential for any freelance writing business owner for the peace of mind and stress relief alone of knowing everything is safe, secure and where it needs to be. No two freelance writers present the same files. Each unique specialty and client base as well …