29 Oct
Posted by Elaine Long as blogs, Business planning, Creativity, Freelance Jobs, freelance writing, Marketing, productivity, Profitable writing
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 [...]
08 Aug
Posted by Elaine Long as freelance writing, Marketing, Site design, Site promotion, Site Traffic, Web site design
A couple weeks ago I asked readers to submit their sites if they’d like a review of their sites for user-friendliness, along with suggestions about how to optimize to attract visitors and start getting the traffic that leads directly to more revenue. (Heading toward those six figures, right?!) So – here’s the video of the [...]
15 Jul
Posted by Elaine Long as Marketing, Site promotion, Web site design, Writing general
I sent a post to the SixFigureWriting mailing list a couple weeks ago, offering to give a web site review for selected readers who might be interested. My review consists of offering ideas for (1) making the site more traffic-friendly, and (2) features to add to attract long-term visitors and add-on business. Out of several [...]
28 May
Posted by Elaine Long as blogs, Business planning, Creativity, Fiction writing, Marketing, Web 2.0 Tactics
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 [...]
30 Apr
Posted by Elaine Long as Freelance Jobs, Marketing, Profitable writing
Tomorrow I’ll be releasing the list of all the places online you can go to find new freelance writing jobs, as well as places to sell your own work. (If you want to get access first, you’ll have to join the list by signing up to the right – I’ll be sending out an announcement [...]
23 Apr
Posted by Elaine Long as blogs, Marketing, productivity, Web 2.0 Tactics, Writing general
Yesterday’s interview with C. Hope Clark of Funds For Writers was really great – she definitely has her finger on the pulse of inside information about finding freelance and full time writing jobs, grants, contests and more. I’ll be posting a free link to the full transcript later this week, if you want to make [...]