How to Take a Break Even When Your Work Doesn’t - *Glances at clock.* Great. It’s only 7am. That gives me about an hour until The Family is up. I can get loads of work done. I love Saturdays. *Work work work work work* Whew. That was an intense work session. I got loads done. *Glances at calendar* What!? It’s Sunday?! Where did Saturday go? *Looks...
How to Actually Do All the Things You Thought Freelancing Would Free You to Do - You start freelance blogging because you want to be in control of your own schedule. Now you’ll have time to do all the things you never had time for before: Exercise! Hobbies! Playing with your kids! Volunteering! Taking classes! Then reality gives you a slap in the face. You discover that freelance blogging consists of...
Why Pitching to Blogging Clients Directly is Where the Money’s At - If you’re a freelance blogger (or want to be) you’re likely familiar with the obvious point I’m going to start with here: Reputable businesses and online publications have a huge demand for high quality, valuable content for their websites. Good news for you and your blogging career, right? It gets better though. More specifically, these...
How a Responsive Website Boosts Your Freelance Blogging Success - Just for a moment, pretend you’re looking to hire a freelance blogger instead of be a freelance blogger. Now imagine this scenario: it’s 10pm. You’re on the sofa in the midst of a well-deserved Netflix binge when you remember you need to check out that candidate blogger’s website for tomorrow. Thankfully, your tablet is in arm’s reach....
Why “No” Is the Most Powerful Word in a Freelancer’s Vocabulary - It’s short. It only has two letters and one syllable. You’d imagine the word “no” would be easy to say. After all, it’s the 56th most common word in English. However, the difficulty isn’t in its pronunciation but in the emotional charge it holds. Most people think it’s a negative word. I’ve discovered that saying “no” can...