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commercial freelancers

Got a Guest Post for The Well-Fed Writer Blog? (Now Three Years Old!)

March 29, 2011

Okay, so I tried this waaaaaaay back when, shortly after the blog’s launch – asking for guest posts. Got a few submissions from my fellow commercial freelancers, but after a while, things sort of fizzled out. And yours truly had to load that big blog burden back on my shoulders. I know, get out your [...]

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An Ode to “Good Clients” (i.e., Virtually All of Mine…)

March 10, 2011

I just got off the phone with one of my favorite commercial writing clients – someone who embodies what I like about most of my clients: she always thinks of me first when writing comes up (who wouldn’t love that?); values my contributions; respects me and my process; gives me enough time, attention, and input [...]

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What’s a Commercial Freelancer to Do about Health Insurance?

February 24, 2011

After getting yet another email a few weeks back from a reader, suggesting a post on health insurance for freelancers, figured it was time. I know this is a hot button issue for any commercial freelancer, often looming as one of the key issues giving salaried employees/aspiring commercial writers pause when considering the leap to [...]

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This Writer’s Landing a Ton of Work Doing What So Many Companies Need…

February 8, 2011

Caught up with a commercial writing chum of mine on the West Coast recently (we’ll call him Joe). He told me about all the work he’s landed with his latest client. So many good lessons for commercial writers in his story, I just had to share it.
Joe landed the client through a friend. Do your [...]

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The Confidence Conundrum: How a Newbie Writer Builds Enough to Succeed…

August 31, 2010

In my first commercial freelancing group coaching series, one of the participants said: “I think my biggest problem is uncertainty. I prefer feeling confident about what I’m doing – to be able to do it with authority, and I just haven’t been able to reach that point so far. I’m always afraid I’ll do it [...]

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How Do You Respond to Prospects Who Make Requests Like These?

June 21, 2010

So, I got an email the other day from a reader in the Northeast whose note underscored an issue we commercial freelancers wrestle with all the time. While this particular case seems a bit more straightforward (see my reply below), variations on this scenario can present challenges to writers like us. As a result, I’d [...]

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