WritingThoughts

How friendly are you to your fellow freelancers? Lately, I’ve noticed that there’s some bad social media advice about freelancer networking being given. The advice goes like this–you shouldn’t connect with other freelancers through social media. Instead, you should only connect with those companies that can hire you right away. However, if you’re not including […]

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Tutorials, or “how to” articles, are still very popular online. While there are some bad tutorials out there, there are also some great ones. Their popularity is just one reason that writers should be interested in tutorials. The other reason is that writing a tutorial usually pays more than writing a less detailed piece. In […]

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Recently I read a comment from a social media specialist that mentioned wishing that blogging reciprocity would no longer be as important in 2012 as it has been in the past. Blogging reciprocity, in case you were wondering, refers to the practice of visiting the blogs of your commenters and repaying a comment left on […]

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Are rapid-fire social media changes making you tired? If you’re like me, you wish the big social media platforms (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and Twitter) would stop changing things. Of course, they won’t because they’re all in competition with each other. I wondered how the social media changes were affecting other freelancers, so I asked my […]

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There’s been a lot of talk about blogging lately. Some online personalities have stated publicly that as social media becomes more mature and starts to offer more features, there’s little reason to continue with their own blog. Others haven’t made any such statement, but have constructively abandoned their own blog (not posting for weeks or, […]

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Yesterday, I created a Google+ page for this blog and then I created one for my freelance writing business. The whole process took less than ten minutes–but right now, they are only shells. It will take some work to add content and value. If I could do it that quickly, you could too. But should […]

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Many so-called gurus feel that blogging is dying or has been made redundant by social media participation. You can see the “evidence” of this if you look at the number of comments blog posts now receive as compared to a few years ago. Even on the very popular blogs, comments are down drastically. If you’re […]

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Miscommunication–It’s the bane of every good writer, yet all too often it happens. What would you say if I told you that many communication problems that writers face could be traced to five common causes? You’d want to know those causes, wouldn’t you? Well, so did I–so I developed this list of problems that cause […]

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For the past few days, I’ve been using Google+, which (in case you haven’t been following the tech news) is Google’s much anticipated entry into social media. I’d never call myself a social media expert, but I do use social media as a tool to help market my freelance writing business and share my blogging […]

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If you’re a writer, or just own a business with an online component, you’ve probably heard the following adage–publish or perish? The premise behind the popular phrase is that publishing content is good and that publishing frequently is the best way to survive in the crowded Internet marketplace. It’s a catchy saying, but is it […]

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