It’s always interesting to find out how people wound up doing freelance work and my story isn’t much different from others except that I have a few varying twists in my tale.
I never considered being a freelancer! In fact, I simply couldn’t imagine depending on chance for a paycheck every week, I really liked the [...]

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If you’re a freelance writer and you are looking for (a) additional experience; (b) additional income; (c) an opportunity to build your portfolio, there are some websites that are available to you to help you do this!
Here are some examples:
Helium – if you’re interested in writing about a wide variety of topics and you want [...]

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I’ve attended a lot of job fairs in my day, but I’ve never been so taken back by the number of people who attended a job fair at this hour of the day!
I was asked by oDesk to consider manning a table a the Great American Job Fair hosted by Tory Johnson who does the [...]

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I have heard a lot of comments about various work at home opportunities through blogs that I’ve read, Yahoo Answers, and any other numbers of locations (including Helium) and many of them either (a) are negative about oDesk (more about this later) or don’t refer to them at all as a source of potential work.
First [...]

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A while back we discussed building up and displaying your portfolio. Many of you may have noticed that my ‘portfolio’ pages have disappeared from this site. There’s a reason for that. One of my clients complained because I linked his items here on my blog and I included work on the site.
Make sure before you [...]

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There always seems to be a lot of discussion about rates that a freelance writer can or should charge.  For most of us, starting out meant our rates were lower than we might like but once we gain momentum we often increase our rates incrementally based on (a) experience; (b) our portfolio and (c) the [...]

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As a freelance writer  one of the hazards of looking for ongoing work is finding the line between enough work and too much work.
It’s up to you to decide how many hours you wish to devote to working daily.  If you have regular clients with ongoing assignments for freelance writing it may be fairly simple [...]

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