freelancing

Plugs of the Day

September 7, 2009

Today’s plug is for Booksellers Blog. If you’re in writing, editing or the publishing industry at large, it’s an excellent resource. While geared toward independent booksellers, it’s full of advice that applies to one-person businesses like freelancers and authors. Recent posts cover themes like improving your professional blog, boosting your online presence, and using Twitter [...]

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Real Life

August 27, 2009

As regular readers will know, many of my clients and colleagues are in the podcasting community. As a result, I’d been hearing glowing mentions of Mur Lafferty’s name for a few years now. When I learned that Mur was going to be at Anticipation, I wrote and told her that I was looking forward to [...]

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Time Management Tools

June 29, 2009

Time tracking is essential for freelancers, and I’ve been doing a little exploring in the last couple months to find an effective time management system for myself. There are to-do list programs like Tracks that are free, and are very good for what they are, but I needed something with more of a stopwatch feature [...]

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Life happens

May 11, 2009

Life happens to all of us sometimes. Despite our best intentions, emergencies and unforseen circumstances can arise that make our personal lives or our health or families come first. Sometimes our professional deadlines have to take a back seat. Freelance Folder addresses the topic with a very helpful Template Letter for Emergencies and accompanying tips. [...]

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The Home Stretch Exception

February 19, 2009

As a freelancer, I try to follow two simple rules about my time: 1. Never send e-mail to a client at an off-hour, or they will think they can own your evenings for no extra charge. 2. Never send e-mail to a client on a weekend, or they will think they can own your weekends [...]

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A Freelancer in Motion…

February 5, 2009

Over on The Golden Pencil, there’s a great article called Sweating Your Way to Freelance Success, about the importance of exercise for freelancers. Meanwhile, Spoonfed Design has an article titled Guide to Becoming a Happy Freelancer that also touches on the importance of exercise, along with other tips to keeping an organized home office, personal [...]

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Contracts

December 12, 2008

Are contracts really necessary? Isn’t making someone sign a contract for editing work like saying you don’t trust them to pay? There’s a lot more to a contract than just “Ha! Now you HAVE to pay me!” and “Ha! Now you HAVE to do the work!” Contracts set out the expectations of both parties. If [...]

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We type, ergo…

November 3, 2008

If you work at a computer for eight hours a day for a large company, in a large office, there’s probably an ergonomics consultant or coach, or at least a set of standards that the company conforms to, in order to make sure that workstations are set up in such a way that they foster [...]

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EFA SF Bay

October 27, 2008

The Editorial Freelancers Association is (as its website will tell you) “a professional resource for editorial specialists and those who hire them”. Its members include editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, translators, and more, and some of the benefits of membership include networking opportunities for members, job postings, online references and resources, and the [...]

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Work, and groundwork

October 23, 2008

Time is money, and that’s something you feel keenly when you go into business for yourself. Whether you’re a writer, an editor, a designer, or a freelancer in any other field. Your first priority, when you’re starting up, is to get work. You’re probably still doing something else full-time, whether it’s some kind of schooling [...]

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