A Quick Guide To Customer Service As a Freelance Writer There are lots of articles on this site about writing. Occasionally I post about skills you need as a writer that don’t involve writing. This is one of them. Today I’m going to quickly go over some things that writers should probably do in order…
Over the past month or so, I read two books that, whilst writing my last article, caused me to rethink some things. It’s funny, because the two books are completely different, but basically on the same subject, and with the same purpose. One is Writing to the Point The Second is “This Book Will Teach…
How To Not Worry About Whether Your Niche Site Will Succeed Yesterday’s article wasn’t just an aberration of mathematics on an otherwise non-mathematics blog. It was instead a background article for some of the other things I’ll talk about. This article is one example. A lot of guys have commented, emailed or otherwise talked to…
Building An About Us Page That Helps You I’ve been doing a little work on my niche sites for the niche site challenge. I wrote a tweet earlier that the best way to get started was to find a good niche website and see what works from it. That’s what I did yesterday, and I came…
Tap into the Mythical When you’re a writer, you’re taking part in a trade that goes back a long way. Further back, in fact, than actual writing; you’re tapping into the need for human beings to decode, denote and propagate their experiences. That’s pretty deep for a Saturday afternoon. I’ll get to the topic at…
Dealing With Difficult Customers If you’re a writer or freelancer of any sort, you’re probably going to have to deal with difficult customers. I’ve had to, and everyone who I know who is also a freelancer (not all of them writers) have also had to deal with the problem of difficult customers. This article is…
Yesterday, I wrote a sales letter for a product/service hybrid. I was having trouble getting started, so I decided to check out the competitors to see what they were doing wrong. I’ve written about this before in the Gaps in the Market article. This approach is good because if you see something your competitor’s product…
I woke up yesterday and had a business idea that would probably make lots of money. What’s more, it was relevant to my education, so it might justify the amount I wasted spent on the expensive certificates on my wall. I was pretty thrilled… but to include it would probably derail my plans. I was…
A Few Weird Habits That WILL Help Your Writing Endless gurus have endless “productivity hacks” which are designed to help you shortcut your way to riches. If you type in “life hacks for writers” you’re probably going to get a billion results with stupid stuff like, “write what you feel… and buy yerba mate tea…
Picking Winning Niches There are good niche site ideas, and there are bad ones. Some niche sites are just never going to be effective – and sadly, they’re the ones that people pick the most. Making money. Building a lifestyle. Ten things to do in London. The sort of examples a guru gives you that…