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Too Many Writing Projects, Not Enough Time

By on April 18th, 2013

I have a habit of taking on quite a few writing-related projects at once. I’m a blogger and freelance business writer for my clients. I run numerous websites and blogs of my own. And I write books and e-books. There never seems to be enough time in my work days, and lately I’ve found myself putting in extra hours far too often — something I usually try hard to avoid. As a result, I’ve had to find ways to scale back some projects, or at least the amount of my personal attention they each need. I’m still putting some of …

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Weekend Reading: Time Management

By on March 8th, 2013

Let’s close out this week looking at one of the most important issues to face freelance writers — time management. There’s a reason you have to be fairly well disciplined to succeed at working for yourself. There are countless things that need to be done, and there never seems to be enough time to do it all. The time management tips and advice in these articles around the Web could give you some new ideas. Have a read! Time Management for Freelance Writers… You Thought It’s Going to be Easy? — By Karol K at YoungPrePro.com 8 Time Management Tips for …

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5 Time Management Tools for Freelance Writers

By on December 8th, 2012

As a freelance writer do you ever feel like you aren’t working to your full potential — that you could get more work done if you could just eliminate some distractions and improve your productivity a bit? Fortunately there are plenty of time management tools that can help you do that. Today I’d like to share some of my favorite types of time management tools and some examples you might want to try. Here are five simple time management tools for freelance writers. Enjoy! E.ggtimer.com – This is probably my all-time favorite time management tool. I use it to time working …

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7 Ways to Double What You Get Done Each Day

By on May 16th, 2012

Very little hurts a freelance writing business as much as poor productivity. For example, if you feel too overwhelmed with client work, you might run out of time to seek out new clients (leading to a later lack of work). Or you might get so caught up in writing that you neglect important administrative duties. Or you might just work so many hours that you push yourself to burn out. I used to fall into that last group. I’d work 60 to 80 hours a week early on in my writing and PR consulting business. And the work I loved …

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Freelance Writers: How to Make Time for Marketing

By on February 6th, 2012

As a freelance writer, most of your time will be spent writing. That being said, you need to save time throughout the day for other tasks such as sales and marketing. Even though you may have enough work right now to keep busy, you never know when things are going to slow down. For this reason, marketing your services should be an ongoing task. But I don’t have time for marketing! This is a common complaint shared by many freelance writers. However, you should not let this complaint turn into an excuse. If you do, you could be harming your …

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How To Turn Down A Freelance Writing Project Professionally And Respectably

By on July 18th, 2010

When starting as a freelance writer, it’s difficult to turn down work.  You’re a rookie in the industry who’s trying to make a living writing and the simplest way to do that seems to be to take on as much work as you possibly can. There comes a point, though, when you physically can’t take on anymore work and you need to start turning projects down – something which you probably never thought you would do. Although it might seem a relatively simple thing to do – saying no – to ensure that you are as professional and respected as …

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The 10 Second Trick that Doubled my Productivity as a Writer

By on September 23rd, 2008

Lately my work days have been so much more enjoyable than before. I get a solid 7 hours of client work and administrative stuff out the way, I’m actually taking my lunch hour for myself instead of working through it, have the energy to put a few more hours into my own projects daily, and still have time to take care of housework, working out, and simply relaxing (and man, that’s the part I missed the most). Good for Me. So What? My productivity has at least doubled recently – I’m getting far more done every day even though I …

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