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This Writer’s Clients Give Him a Check Every Month (Thanks to a Tough Economy…)

June 30, 2011

So, a few months back, in the April 2011 Well-Fed E-PUB, I ran the following Main Course about retainers from Visalia, CA commercial freelancer Tim Lewis (tim@tlcopy.com, http://www.tlcopy.com).
Retainers – essentially a guaranteed monthly income from a commercial writing client – can be wonderful things. Not to mention especially welcome in a tough economy – [...]

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Stories Like This Prove Big Companies Don’t Always Have Their Act Together…

May 23, 2011

So, I went out for a lunch the other day to my local Jason’s Deli. Pretty big chain – good, thick Dagwood-style sandwiches, great salad bar, etc. And no, I’m not getting free coupons for plugging them here. Just giving credit where it’s due, since I’m about to do the opposite as well…
Anyway, so while [...]

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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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What Do You Think of “The Salad Dressing Rule”?

December 7, 2010

Got an email recently from a reader with a concern (and frustration…) we’ve all come up against at some point in our commercial writing careers. He wrote:
The challenge that’s just unnerving me is how to shift prospects’ minds from thinking they can do the writing themselves instead of paying a commercial freelancer $100+ an [...]

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The Secrets to Landing and Keeping Repeat Clients…

October 25, 2010

Got this email from a relatively new commercial freelancer recently:
My fledgling commercial writing business, launched in 2007, is alive after fits and starts. Upon reflection, I realize I haven’t had much repeat writing business from clients. In addition to commercial freelance writing, I also do marketing and magazine articles. The magazine keeps re-hiring me, [...]

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Got This Fun, In-Demand and Lucrative Copywriting Specialty in Your Project Mix?

September 27, 2010

So, suddenly I’ve been thinking a lot about case studies. For starters, I just finished a big one and it consumed a big chunk of my commercial writing life (details in the July and August ezine “Appetizer” courses).
Then, my friend Casey Hibbard (The Case-Study Queen), announced she’s offering a six-month intensive case-study coaching program [...]

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