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Why I Offer Unlimited Revisions to My Clients

Note: The original version of this post said that I told potential clients that I offered unlimited revisions. However, after thinking about it, I realized that I don't use those...
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5 Things to Do to Finish 2017 Strong

Summer can be slow for freelancers – either because they purposely take more time off or because client work slows down. Sometimes, it's a little of both. But regardless of...
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5 Things I Learned (Or Relearned) This Summer about Running a Freelance Content Marketing Business

I’m back. I promise. Every summer I swear that I’m going to keep blogging over the summer. But it never works out. And I always stop blogging. So next year,...
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4 Things Overheard on Wednesday at #CMWorld that I Wish I Had Said

As I sit here trying to recap Wednesday at #CMWorld, everything I try to write to sum up the day comes back to some version of this: "If your instinct...
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8 Tips for Getting the Most from Content Marketing World

Heading to Content Marketing World for the first time? Or perhaps even the third time like myself? A few days before I left for my first trip to the event...
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Guest Post by Alma Smajlovic: Writing in the Technology Niche—What I Learned

Note from Jennifer: A few months back, Alma wrote a guest post for my blog where she shared her experiences focusing on local clients for content marketing work. She later...
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The One Thing You Must Do to be a Successful Freelance Content Marketing Writer

My freelance career started slowly. I wrote for content mills in the beginning. I spent several years finding my way. And once I started to get some modest success thanks...
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Keeping the Free in Freelancing

I’m not talking about writing for free. But instead the free as in the freedom that we have as freelancers. One of the biggest benefits we have is the freedom...
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Find Out How Boring Your Content Is With a Boring Audit

Read any how-to article on creating a content strategy and the first (or near the beginning) step is almost always conducting a content audit. The short explanation is that this...
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When Freelancing Isn’t Rainbows and Unicorns: What to Do When You Hit a Rough Patch

I should be on top of the world with freelancing right now. I am having my best year income-wise by far, new clients are approaching me for work, and I...
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Yes, Keywords Are Making Your Content Boring

Many of my B2B clients hand me a keyword and tell me that I am supposed to use it in the title, in the SEO description, in the first 100...
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How Cannibal Hamsters Helped Revive My Career (Guest Post)

  Note from Jennifer: Kristin shared this story with me at the ASJA conference and I knew immediately that I wanted to share it with you. I love how she...
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