Despite the radio silence here on SFW of the past few months, I’ve been busily working on new writing gigs and projects.  The reason I’ve been cranking up the output is that as the economy slows (and according to the “experts” I’m listening to, that’s a given) I believe freelancers are possibly in the best [...]

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A couple weeks ago, readers of my mailing list were invited to submit their home page URLs to be chosen as for a little project I am doing here on my blog: Reviewing websites to demonstrate the kinds of modifications, design considerations and other tweaks that can increase traffic to a site, enhance the user [...]

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I’m reading Seth Godin’s excellent book, Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing Out Of Synch?, and it describes the ways some businesses are attempting to jump on the bandwagon of the new tools and services on the Internet but are not quite “getting it”. They’re trying to just layer the latest thing onto their business-as-usual product/marketing/advertising [...]

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As a writer, I want to take advantage of more of what the Internet offers. I recently saw online a l-o-o-o-ng discussion about why a potential publisher sent a writer seemingly contradictory messages about why they were not accepting their submission for publication. The writer was baffled. And hundreds (I think) of people responded with [...]

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I just reviewed a bunch of survey responses from my list members, and the results are pretty striking. It seems that while both new and inexperienced writers are definitely taking advantagew of opportunitites on the Web, there are a whole host of tactics and strategies for increasing income which many writers still seem unfamliar with. [...]

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The big question to answer here is: How can writers make six figures, and is it really do-able? I see writers online making a lot more than that. And we’re going to look at what other writers are doing to get there. There are a few assumptions I have to set out here: – Nonfiction [...]

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