It’s Friday again, and here are some recent rumblings from throughout the blogosphere for freelance writers and bloggers:

How to Successfully Work with People Long-Distance
6 Ways that Regular Writing can Help All Freelancers
Has Recession Been Good for Your Writing Business?
Testimonials: A Freelance Writer’s Evidence, Part 1
Testimonials: A Freelance Writer’s Evidence, Part 2
Writing the Proposal Letter that [...]

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Anyone can publish anything at any time on a blog or microblogging service, like Twitter. But does the fact that you can publish immediately mean that you should? Personally, I think the answer to that question is a resounding “NO.”
I’d like to share some thoughts on the immediacy issue today as it might apply to [...]

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I’ve been thinking and blogging quite a bit about blogger relations lately (including featuring some excellent cases of good blogger relations in book marketing). In fact, I even revived my PR blog for a brief time to tackle the issue. In that post, Heather Yaxley of GreenBanana left a comment sharing an email she received [...]

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As a blogger or content writer, chances are good that you’ll be contacted by readers from time to time. They may have questions about what you’ve written, or questions about your niche unrelated to your article or post.
You probably try to be as helpful as you can–responding to comments, answering emails, giving advice when asked [...]

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As you may know, Deb Ng recently released her first e-book Beyond Blogging: Using Your Blogging Skills for Bigger and Better Things.
I gave it a read, and wanted to share some of my thoughts for those considering checking it out.
Important to Note: Deb didn’t design this e-book to give you a step-by-step tutorial on [...]

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Just a heads-up that I won’t be posting new jobs Wednesday – Friday this week, due to the Christmas holiday. I’m taking some time off, and these posts need to feature current jobs and not those outdated, so I can’t post them ahead of time. Normal articles / posts will still go up Monday – [...]

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If  you’re following my progress on developing and then flipping eWritingJobs.com, here’s the week two plan (or read this on flipping websites to find out more about my process). But first, let’s see how I did last week:
Week 1 Summary

I took a while to get around to my week 1 edits. Actually, I technically did [...]

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It’s almost inevitable – if you build a large content site or blog, at one time or another you’ll likely feel that there’s nothing left to talk about. Fortunately, unless you’ve chosen an incredibly limited niche, that’s not the case. There are always other topics to write about in your niche, or other angles to [...]

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If you’re a Wordpress blogger like me, you may be wondering if you should upgrade to the new Wordpress 2.7. Didn’t they just update the admin interface? Why should we have to re-learn it all over again so soon?
If you have that concern, you’re not alone. WP has certainly been making one big change after [...]

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This is our first freelance writing jobs listing since AFW and AFWJ were merged, and it will focus on blogging jobs today. Today will also be the test to find out whether or not the email subscriptions are working properly post-merger. If you used to subscribe only to All Freelance Writing Jobs, you should get [...]

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