Freelance Folder affirms my belief that freelancers need to work hard to earn repeat business. Repeat business is cheaper than marketing to new clients. I’ve been lucky that over 90% of my business has come from repeat business. One way I do this is to have friendly conversations with them by e-mail. I don’t like … Read more
Books on writing often reiterate the same advice we learn over time, the reader sometimes lucks out in using a tidbit or two. Realistically, no one has time to study the advice and put it to practice. Thus, it’s not a bad thing for a book on writing to cover the things we’ve read before. … Read more
A writer (or any other freelance career works here, too) who lands one or two big clients that keep the writer busy full-time must keep marketing. I learned this valuable lesson very early in my writing career. My first paid writing assignments came in 2000, at the height of the dot com boom. As things … Read more
A person can read plenty of books on how to improve your writing skills, but how do you retain all that information? You can’t … unless you have a photographic memory. Realistically, you can pick up a few tips and make those a habit. Then you pick up a few more in the next book… … Read more
I went through a period where I simply couldn’t blog. It wasn’t the lack of blogging ideas — I had article suggestions waiting in the wings. None of them sounded good at the time. So I went blog hopping looking for good posts worth sharing. This lasted a few weeks, so I began to wonder … Read more
While freelancing offers flexibility in terms of time and location, procrastinators and people who can’t motivate themselves will find it a struggle. Unlike a corporate job, “when you’re not working, you don’t earn money.” In the corporate world on a regular salary, you get paid during slow times even if it means you might spend … Read more
Spoilers in this one, but I’ve attempted to write a benign paragraph so no one accidentally sees anything. I can’t help but write another post about Harry Potter as the story takes up much of my thoughts since finishing the book. The Leaky Cauldron’s Leaky Lounge has an absorbing discussion going on around the finale. … Read more
First — Spoilers are in invisible ink. So you can’t accidentally see anything unless you try. I want to thank Amazon a thousand times for delivering the book around 10:00 am, Saturday, July 21. We were prepared for it to arrive between July 24 and July 26 because of the embargo figuring the publishers put … Read more
The Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex had a rainy June that it came within one-half inch of breaking the record that has stood since 1928. A friend of mine sent me this picture from FunPic and I just had to share. So a gal wearing High Tide Heels doesn’t have to worry about falling into an unexpected … Read more
Who will benefit from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) and the series in the short term and long term? This previous post discusses how killing Harry could potentially hurt future sales once the current popularity dies down. People still buy The Lord of the Rings though the series is old by today’s … Read more