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Write like you’re rich

January 18, 2012

I play in a Thursday golf league here in Phoenix, and a few weeks ago one of the partners in my foursome made a comment that I felt I needed to write down: “You just gotta play like you’re rich,” he said. [read more...]

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Take the Freelance Forecast 2012 survey

January 11, 2012

Yes, it’s time for the Freelance Forecast 2012 survey—an annual forum for freelancers and clients who hire freelance creatives to opine on the best (and worst) practices in the industry, assess their results in 2011 and offer their insights on expectations for 2012.

As in the past, there are two separate surveys. If you are a freelancer who also contracts work, or a client-sider who does moonlight freelancing, you’re welcome to take both. [read more...]

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Freelance pricing revisited, again

In the past week, I’ve received three different questions about freelance pricing that were essentially the same: new freelancers who want to know “How much should I charge?” I don’t mean to be dismissive to respond, “It depends.” Pricing is one of the tougher items to figure out when you’re breaking in, but the main [...]

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It’s not so bad being busy

Last weekend I was outside doing some yardwork, and two neighborhood elementary schoolgirls were doing laps through the cul de sac. First, they came buzzing through on scooters. Then, a couple of circles around on bikes. Next came rollerblades. Then once again, with one of them on a bike, towing the other (somewhat perilously, with [...]

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Firefox freezes fix

I’m a fan of Firefox rather than my Mac’s proprietary Safari browser. But I recently installed version 8 and it has been slow, hanging all the time, collapsing into “Firefox (not responding)” mode and just plain misbehaving. I tried all the usual tricks, such as clearing the cache, dumping my cookies, etc. Nothing worked. Like [...]

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Phoenix web content writer wanted

A client of mine has asked me to share a web content writer position here in Phoenix that they’ve just listed on the IABC website: details here. This freelance job is for the APS.com customer website, and it’s a biggie: condensing content, writing in web style and within the new design framework for their currently [...]

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Image is everything

As writers, we live and die by our intellectual property. Nothing is more infuriating than having someone plagiarize your work or steal your ideas—and thereby take money out of your pocket. Yet, many of us don’t think twice about grabbing an image off the web. (I’ll confess, early in my blogging evolution, I did it, [...]

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Brochure writing and playing nice

I secured a brochure writing project for a new client this week, a lead brought to me through one of my graphic designer partners. She asked for a quick ballpark range on what it would cost, so I shot toward the conservative end of things, based on my long-standing belief in the benefits of high [...]

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3 ideas beyond the freelance echo chamber

I enjoy freelancing blogs as much as anyone—a few of my regular haunts can be found in the blogroll. But while it’s comfortable and occasionally comforting to read, as Orwell’s Winston Smith would have it, “the things we already know,” it’s three items well outside the freelance echo chamber that I present for consideration today. [...]

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Freelance Follies: A Second Opinion

Freelance Follies Episode #6: “A Second Opinion.” Because I really, really love when third parties get involved in the writing and editorial approval process. To catch up on episodes #1 through #5, go here.

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