Website: www.crispclearcopy.com

Specialty: Business Communications, Healthcare and Retail

Rates: 75/hour

Freelance Commercial Writer with twenty years of B2B and B-to-Consumer experience. My specialty is creating a crisp clear tone that reflects my client and response driven copy that will boost his or her business or practice. My portfolio includes brochures, proposals, press releases, web pages, executive communications, newsletters, collateral materials, direct mail, articles and blogs.
Industries and clients include healthcare, real estate, insurance, retail, financial services, among others.
• Skilled at conceiving ideas for business boosting products and executing them in print.
• Work comfortably with graphic designers, printers, etc. and can manage the entire production of print pieces, in a timely, cost-effective manner.
• Experienced at creating and and doing the entire layout for print-ready books, postcards, PowerPoint proposals and brochures using Adobe InDesign and pdf creater software. Adept at all facets of word processing software, as well.
• Strong research and interview skills.
• Proven ability to translate technical material into a more user-friendly format.
• Excellent work ethic: I do whatever it takes to get a first-time client to become a regular customer.
I keep my client roster small, so I can stay ahead of deadlines. At the moment, I have capacity to take on one additional client for freelance work, but that can quickly change.
Please check out my portfolio and resume at www.crispclearcopy.com. If you’re seeking innovative ways to reach out to current customers or prospect for new ones, take advantage of my free 30-minute consultation.
I am based in Manhattan and am happy to stop by if you are locally based.

Website: http://melissasouza.webs.com

Specialty: Writing

Rates: 50 per hour or project rate

Melissa Souza writes regularly for examiner.com as the L.A. Horse Examiner. She has contributed to the Nashville music scene through various press releases, written several articles for eHow.com and freelances as a copywriter. A dash of prowess, a heaping handful of zeal and a pinch of talent, Melissa composes a wide variety of materials: turning drab copy into caliber marketing material for a medley of pieces a client may need to sparkle in their industry.

Ad Testing

As you know, I recently brought in a team of writers (six of them in addition to myself). While services and other sites are paying for those staff writers, I want this blog to be able to justify keeping people on board all on its own. Therefore, I’ll be testing various monetization methods now and in the near future.

One of the first things I’m doing is re-introducing Adsense. However, ads should only display in a visitor’s first five visits to All Freelance Writing (or if you clear your cookies, because it then assumes you’re a new visitor). Even for new visitors it should only display one ad per page and not be overly intrusive. The idea here is to monetize one-time traffic like search engine referrals while cutting regular readers some slack on the ads (since regular readers become ad-blind anyway, it doesn’t even make sense from the income standpoint to make you look at them every day).

I’ll also be looking for ways to better monetize job ads. For now you’ll see a job search box at the bottom of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday job lists. That may or may not change depending on how it goes. Again, hopefully nothing terribly intrusive.

New Products

I’m hoping to release two new products here before the end of this year, both e-books.

The first will be an e-book version of the 30 day marketing bootcamp for freelance writers that was recently completed at The Query-Free Freelancer. The e-book version will be enhanced a bit and will include tools and worksheets not available in the post series.

The second will be the next e-book in the Web Writer’s Guide series — a marketing workbook for freelance writers, filled with all kinds of tools you can use to better market your services such as a full marketing plan template tailored specifically to freelance writers.

New Freebies

We’ll continue to release free tools and more as well. For example, the next tool will be an interactive freelance writing rate calculator based on my 2007 article on setting freelance writing rates the right way. If you have tool suggestions, feel free to mention them in a comment and I’ll see if it’s something my programmers can whip up.

New Branding

While I wanted to make some minor branding changes with the last design change, I didn’t get around to it. As of today though we have a new logo and tagline for All Freelance Writing.

Back-end Updates

I’m also making a series of back-end updates to plugins and such to keep the site running as smoothly as possible. There’s always a possibility that plugins will be incompatible or cause some kind of hiccup or another. If you run into problems on the site (like not being able to comment, things displaying oddly, etc.), please leave a comment or email me at jenn(at)allfreelancewriting(dot)com and I’ll look into getting it fixed asap.

I’m really hoping these changes will be for the best. :)

I went ahead and setup my ad for my first Web Writer’s Guide e-book. If you’re selling e-books or other information products through Clickbank, you may want to do the same if you haven’t already. It’s free, and a little extra promotion never hurts, right? It may help bring in a few more sales.

Other than that, there wasn’t a lot of information sent out about it yet. I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for more to see exactly how it’s going to work, from both the publisher and affiliate perspective.

In the meantime, you can set up your own ad by logging into your account, going into your account settings, and looking in the “my site” area. That’s where you’ll be able to add the content for your ad.