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- November 13th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How to Start Your Freelance Writing Business: The Costs
For a couple of weeks now, the discussion has been going back and forth between Men with Pens and Freelance Parent about the costs of starting up a freelance writing business. One side argues that you…
- November 10th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How To Start Your Freelance Writing Business: A Jump-Start
We’ll pick back up on this series later in the week, folks. In the meantime, I want to tell you about a great way to get your business off the ground. The guys over at Men with Pens are running…
- October 28th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How To Start Your Freelance Writing Business: Finding Work
Now, I won’t pretend to know it all when it comes to landing freelance writing work. After all, my first gig was one that the client approached me about, rather than the other way around. In fact, s…
- October 22nd, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How To Start Your Freelance Writing Business: Building Your Portfolio
As several folks mentioned in the comments from the previous post in this series, having a good business plan doesn’t mean that your business is going to succeed. Now, NOT having one can have a…
- October 17th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How To Start Your Freelance Writing Business: Planning
Today I want to continue talking about how you can get started with your Freelance writing business. Before I get too much into it, though, I want to send you off to read about why these tough economi…
- October 16th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How To Start Your Freelance Writing Business: Honing Your Craft
Last time, I talked about the importance of becoming educated if you want to start a freelance writing business. I talked about becoming educated about business, about the nature of freelancing and ab…
- October 13th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How To Start Your Freelance Writing Business: Education
If I were to start my freelance writing business over, I’d do things differently. There are plenty of hurdles and unnecessary difficulties I’ve had to overcome, based on the way I came abo…
- October 10th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Blog Mastermind just got more affordable
(I’ll be continuing with my series on how to start your freelance writing business on Monday, but I wanted to hold it off just through the weekend. I received an email yesterday from Yaro Starak…
- October 8th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How To Start Your Freelance Writing Business: Part 1
One of the most common questions I get asked by my readers is “how do I get started writing online?” In some ways, I feel underqualified to answer the question. Like I’ve said before…
- October 6th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Recognizing Success
Over the last week or so, I’ve written about freelance setbacks and failure in your writing business. While it’s worth thinking about such things from time to time, I want to look at the f…
- October 3rd, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Every Time I Build Up Hope, Then I Fail
From time to time, I like to go through my blog stats and see what brings people to my shores. While search engines aren’t my main source of traffic, they do bring in quite a few people. I’…
- October 1st, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Handling Freelance Setbacks
It doesn’t happen very often, but it has happened to me twice in ten days. Last week, I had a client kick a project back to me. The client didn’t ask me to revise the project; instead, he…
- September 26th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
I’m a Writer
(The following is a guest post from Philippe-Antoine Menard, the Chatty DM. Phil is a good friend who I had the pleasure of meeting in person at Gen Con this year. Like many of my other readers, Phil…
- September 23rd, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Top 10 Blogs For Writers: Thank You, Readers!
For the third year in a row, Michael Stelzner over at Writing White Papers has offered his readers a list of the top 10 Blogs for Writers. I’m proud to say that, out of 300 entries, The Writing…
- September 19th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Use Your Work To Change Your World
One of the most amazing things about being a freelance writer is that I don’t have to do any work I don’t want to do. If I’m not comfortable with the subject matter, I don’t ha…
- September 17th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How To Deal With Freelance Burnout
If you’ve been freelancing for any amount of time, you’ve probably had one of those days. You know the days I’m talking about. You sit down in front of your computer with your mornin…
- September 15th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How Big Is Your Cup?
It feels darn good to be back. I can honestly say, my little blogging break has done me a world of good. It’s allowed me to focus on the things in my freelance business that really matter, sort…
- September 12th, 2008
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mrboffo is celebrating his birthday today!
- September 4th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Taking A Break
Good morning, everyone! It’s a bit early here in mid-Michigan, and it seems to be a perfect morning for just a little bit of navel gazing. I’ve spent some time thinking, ever since the Pen…
- August 28th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
What’s Your Favorite Writing Blog?
Michael Stelzner wants to know: What’s your favorite writing blog? For the past couple of years, Michael has done a “Top 10 Blogs For Writers” post, and it has been amazingly success…
- August 27th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
How I Get Freelance Writing Gigs From My Blog
I don’t make a bunch of money from my blog. In fact, if I have $50 a month from affiliate sales in a month, I throw a party. A very tiny party. Hey, it’s only $50. Still, my blog is one of…
- August 25th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Beating Internet Writer’s Block
(Editor’s Note: This post was originally published back in February. I thought I’d toss it out to you all again now, since my readership has grown exponentially since that time. Enjoy!) Le…
- August 22nd, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
The #1 Way To Increase Your Blog Readers
There are plenty of tips and tricks I could give you about how to get more traffic to your blog. And there are a lot of folks who can do that a heck of a lot better than I can. The fact is, however, t…
- August 20th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Why Write?
Why do you write? This is a question I ask myself on a regular basis. Any activity you spend eight to ten hours a day doing is worth a little bit of reflection, now and again. After all, if I were abl…
- August 5th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
The SIMPLE Way to Avoid the Freelance Feast or Famine Cycle
Freelance writing is like any other small business. (Have I said that before? Have you heard me talk about treating your writing like a business? I know it must have come up, once or twice.) Like any…
- July 31st, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Start Your Writing Career Now!
photo credit: skippy13 It’s no secret that I plan to open a writer mentoring program in the future. I spend at least a little bit of time, each day, working on the program. I’m exploring…
- July 29th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Internet Writing Growing Pains
(Before you read today’s post, check out Yaro’s Blog Mastermind opening page. He reopens the program at 10 AM today. If you want to learn to make money blogging, sign up. You won’t r…
- July 28th, 2008
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mrboffo has posted a new entry on: The Writing Journey
Freelance Writing and Network Administration
I’ve got a post today over at Freelance folder called How Freelancing Is Like Network Administration. Give it a look, and feel free to add your comments. While I’m on the subject, though,…
