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3 Things You Need to Know about B2B Content Marketing
The majority of my income comes from B2B content marketing. B2B is when you are writing for a company that is selling their products or services to another company. American...
4 Tips for Writing Content Marketing Headlines
I am terrible at writing headlines. And it can take me a very long time to come up with even a boring headline. It just isn’t one of my strengths....
3 Questions to Answer with Your Freelance Writing 1099 Forms
Note: Since it's tax season, I decided to update a post from two years ago for this week with new information. I think that your client income distribution - meaning...
How to Find Content Marketing Topic Ideas on Google
I love finding story ideas. It is honestly one of my favorite parts of being a freelance writer. And I have been able to turn a number of gigs into...
The Sound of Crickets: 5 Reason You Aren’t Getting Results from Your Content Marketing Writing Letter of Introduction
I got an email from a blog reader last week that asked why she wasn't getting a response from her letter of introduction. I've run into the same issue myself...
3 Reasons a Content Marketing Writing Client Might Not Work Out
On paper it looked like I was a perfect fit for the gig. It was for a custom publication for a law firm. In fact, with industry experience, the editor gave...
5 Ways that ASJA Membership has Helped My Freelance Writing Career
I love the freedom of being a freelancer. I only have to work with people who are nice. I can write about different topics and learn about all different subjects...
Need a New Content Marketing Niche? Look at Your Resume
Note: If you have not already signed up to receive my blog posts through email, take a minute and subscribe in the box on the right side of the blog. I...
Getting Your Content Marketing Writing Groove Back: 5 Marketing Ideas to Get Unstuck
I’ve spent way too much time playing on Facebook the past two weeks. And finding delicious looking recipes to add to my collection. And not to mention planning several fantasy...
Challenge: Drop Your Lowest Paying Client
Most of us have a client or two that pays lower than the rest. Often it’s a client that we started writing for when our rates were lower and have...
How to Use the Content Marketing Institute’s Annual Research Reports to Grow Your Content Marketing Writing Business in 2015
Each year the brilliant folks at the Content Marketing Institute compile detailed reports about the trends in content marketing. This year they produced reports for B2B (Business-to-Business), B2C (Business to...
4 Resources to Learn More about Content Marketing Strategy and Writing
I spend a lot of time researching about content marketing writing and wanted to pass on a few good resources that I’ve come across lately. I know that I"m going...
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