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When is a Niche not a Niche?

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments

All too often now you see sites for sale, services for offer and content available for the Gardening Niche, the Golf Niche or the Technology Niche. Time and time again you see these niches advertised as something spectacular, intrinsic and competition free.
Unfortunately however these are not infact niches, categories, yes, areas, yes, subjects definitely. They [...]

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Tags: Articles · Building a Website · Maintaining a Website · Writing

Freelancer Advice – Set Yourself Deadlines and Penalties

November 4th, 2008 · No Comments

As a freelance writer it is all too easy to fall into the trap of continuous procrastination. Days drift by watching a multitude of random DVDs and streaming nonsensical TV shows. All too quickly you can find your lack of work affecting your income; whether it is work you do for others or yourself.
I find [...]

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Tags: Articles · Freelance · Work For Yourself · Writing

Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Without a doubt one of the most frequently asked and not to mention horrendously dreaded questions faced by authors (be they fiction or sales speelers) is “Where do you get your ideas?”
Answering this question is nigh on impossible for most. Some may revert to quoting a favorite classical book as inspiration, others may talk [...]

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E-Books, Good or Bad?

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments

E-books are more than prevailant on the internet, everywhere you look you can find ebooks promising wealth, riches, successs and even a better sex life. But how useful are these electronic books to you as a freelance writer?
For the most part E-books are garbage, they tend to repeat the same basic facts over and [...]

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Mix and Match Your Sentence Length

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

The great thing about writing is that variation helps you.  If you are doing the same work over and over again every day then you are doing something wrong!  But there are all kinds of variations that you can use in your writing, be it dialect, vocabulary or length.
Today I am going to have a [...]

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Residual Income - The Key to Freedom from Work

July 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Residual Income is key to many Freelance Writers and Website Managers income streams. Simply put Residual income is the income generated through one piece of work that keeps on arriving for weeks, months or even years after the original article was written.
Getting a decent amount off residual income is definitely not easy, the article [...]

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Tags: Articles · Uncategorized · Work For Yourself · Writing

Work From Anywhere

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

To work as a freelance writer it is highly important that you can think creatively and have a wide breadth of knowledge and experiences under your belt.  You need to be able to relate to a huge number of different topics from a myriad of viable viewpoints.
For this reason I strongly suggest that as a [...]

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Tags: Articles · Work For Yourself · Writing

Procrastination - The Freelance Killer

June 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Procrastination is when you find your mind drifting away from work, instead of writing that article you were meant to get done you find yourself doodling on some paper, watching a tv show you don’t even like or simply daydreaming the day away.
The fact is that procrastination is the number one reason why start up [...]

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How to Build and Maintain a High Traffic Website or Blog

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

There are Billions upon Trillions of websites on the Internet, all of them beating at each other for a share of the ever elusive website visitor. Building your website can take time and effort, but the real work that will make the difference is your content.  To Build a Website or Blog that Receives High [...]

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Tags: Articles · Building a Website · Maintaining a Website · Work For Yourself

Seven Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Have a Job.

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Today I was thinking to myself, and I had to ask the question ‘Why are so many people happy with having jobs?’
By jobs I mean working for someone else, usually for the entirety of your useful life. Why should we spend all our time working for other people when in reality we can quite easily [...]

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