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How to Hire a Freelancer
While I was at the playground with my kids recently, a local dad mentioned he was looking for a freelance writer. He’d hired someone to write marketing copy for his business and thought he might need to bring in a … Continue reading
Develop A Career Consulting To Nonprofits
The 200kfreelancer’s latest post on the AARP’s Work Reimagined site is live! According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, charitable organizations and nonprofits employ more than 17% of the U.S. workforce. The number of charities — 1.3 million at the current … Continue reading
Why You Need to “Brand” Yourself
One of the most exciting parts of freelancing, when I first got started, was branching out from writing for the national business magazine where I worked for eight years to contributing to titles like Good Housekeeping and Marie Claire. I … Continue reading
Growing Your Business, Uncategorized
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Focusing On These Four Moments Helps Win Assignments
Being a freelancer involves a fair amount of rejection. Even after you identify a few good target markets for yourself and develop some solid story ideas, you’ll have to send out something on the order of 10 pitches for every … Continue reading
What Web Traffic Means To A Freelancer
Susannah Breslin is writing 30 days of freelancing on Forbes. Today, she wrote about the sense of failure that freelancers have – and uses her low-traffic blog on Forbes as an example. Sorry, but thinking about failure is a waste … Continue reading
How to Win Retainer Clients
At a certain point in building a freelance or consulting business, you may find that you’re doing more and more work for a few important clients. Eventually, one or more of them will realize it makes sense to offer you … Continue reading
Why Every Freelancer Needs an Email List (and How to Get Started)
Guest post by Evan Horowitz, founder of Evan Horowitz Advising, a New York City-based business advisory firm. Do you wish you had more clients? Do you wish you could get more work from your current and past clients? Then you need … Continue reading
2 Tips for a Productive Freelancer’s Home Office
Guest post by Gary Lim, founder of Action Pronto, an advisory and coaching firm based in Manlius, N.Y. If you’re freelancing, you’re likely working out of an office in your home. That’s the beauty and the curse of being a … Continue reading
Growing Your Business, Making the Break, The Lifestyle, Uncategorized, Your Back Office
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Working without a Net
Guest post by Avery Elizabeth Hurt French author Pierre-Jules Renard is supposed to have said, “Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.” That may be both true and occasionally a comfort, … Continue reading
Young Americans Are Readers!
This falls into the category of good news for writers, editors and designers: Young Americans are readers, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. “More than eight in ten Americans between the … Continue reading