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Help for freelancer writers and bloggers: Blogs to check out
Freelancing can be lonely business: sitting at a desk, tapping away at a laptop, contact through email. Thank goodness for the internet which means that the company of other freelancers is only a short search away. There are some fantastic bloggers out there for the freelance community. There is lots of helpful information on just…
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Writer – do you plan or fly by the seat of your pants?
For whatever reason you write, there are usually at least two broad ways to do it. Either you are a planner – someone who plans what they are going to write or you are a pantser. This means someone who is flying by the seat of their pants, or someone who has no plan, they…
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Stronger Fiction: Should you write every day?
One of those pieces of advice given out to every writer is: Write every day It is given out so often that we are in danger of feeling that we are not writers if we don’t write every day. What if you find it hard to find time to write every day, however? What if…
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Five Things to Keep in Mind when Composing a Guest Blog Title
With visitors taking even less time than usual to stop by a new website and look around, it is really important to offer a great title when writing a guest blog. You can have written the most informative article in the world but if the title does not instantly grab a reader, then there will…
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Why Have a Guest Blog?
Guest blog posts are becoming more popular as the demand for website content grows. Introducing a blog to your website can help increase your traffic and bring more customers to your business, but maintaining a blog can be hard work. It can be difficult to constantly think of fresh ideas and easy to put off…
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Five Things to Consider before Networking for the First Time
If you want to be a successful freelancer, then finding more like-minded people to join your network is essential. One way to achieve this is to go to one of many networking events set up round the country every month. I went to a Big Circle event in Worcester which was fairly local to me.…
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Back to the Basics of Your Business
I’ve been doing some decorating recently. Our living room or lounge needed a complete rethink and redecoration. The ceiling had some water damage from a previous leak but because asbestos had been discovered in a another room it was not considered the right thing to do to strip it out. We hired a plasterer to…
