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Moving Beyond Content Mills: Steve Sloane

By on October 20th, 2011

This article is part of a follow-up series for Demand Media Studios writers interested in moving past the content mill to find higher paying freelance writing jobs. This series features freelance advice for five writers tailored to their individual needs …

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Freelance Marketing — Moving Beyond Job Boards

By on October 13th, 2011

This article is a part of a five post series for Demand Media Studios writers and others interested in leaving content mills and other low paying freelance writing jobs behind.  In our last post we talked about marketing your freelance …

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Freelance Marketing – Market Research and Planning

By on October 11th, 2011

This week we’re running a five-post series for writers looking to leave content mills like Demand Media Studios behind them. Yesterday we took a look at three types of freelance writing jobs you can pursue, starting today. If you’re considering …

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Think Twice About Writing for Revenue Share

By on June 24th, 2011

This post is based on a comment I recently left on Lori Widmer’s “If it Didn’t Work with Huffington….” Writing for ad revenue is usually a bad idea for writers. Some of the big networks have been doing it for …

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Writing for Residual Earnings Sites is NOT a Retirement Plan

By on February 1st, 2011

Sometimes the things I find through Twitter make me want to cry. “How to Retire on Residual Income from Writing Articles” was one such link (although I can’t remember which darling follow felt it was a good idea to share). …

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