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How to Raise your Freelance Rates

by Julie McElroy on January 23, 2012

Once you find good clients, the goal is to keep them. This seems obvious, but sometimes by raising your rates, you may lose even your best clients. But you can’t stay at the same rate forever if you want to maintain a freelance writing career. How do you raise your rates without scaring off your [...]

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How to Choose a Writing Niche and Why It Matters

by Julie McElroy on December 12, 2011

As a freelance writer, you may feel compelled to write about any topic under the sun in order to get work or have enough material. You are not alone in this thought process.  I have to admit, I have been doing this for a long time, and only recently changed that strategy. But the truth [...]

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How to Create Your Writing Content Strategy

by Julie McElroy on December 9, 2011

As the end of the year draws near, it is common to start rethinking about your goals – your personal life’s goals, your fitness and diet goals, and your career goals.
In the career sense, I am always thinking about my writing goals, but often times, they seem to fall to the wayside. Each year, I [...]

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Getting the “Good” Writing Assignments

by Julie McElroy on August 3, 2011

As a freelance writer, you do not always get to write about what you want – often times you take what you can get.  Sometimes this means writing about things you are not passionate about. When you start off and want to establish yourself, you will often write on a variety of topics in order [...]

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Writing Reflections, Updates, and Projects…

by Julie McElroy on August 1, 2011

Ahhh… life as a freelance writer.  It can often be equated to a roller coaster ride, especially the ones that you never quite know what is around the next corner.  But, you just hang on tight and enjoy the ride.  As a creative that has not been clinically diagnosed with ADD, my mind never seems [...]

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For all you experienced freelance writers out there, you may have noticed times are tough for finding the high paying jobs you may have once held. While I have come across a few freelance writers who are still doing well, a larger percentage seem to be struggling to find decent paying writing jobs.
Why Have Rates [...]

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