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Break the Feast or Famine Cycle: Five Ways to Make Time for Marketing Every Day

After many years of freelancing, I still haven’t overcome the feast or famine cycle. It always seems that I either have so much work that I can barely breathe or...
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5 More Content Marketing Writing Mistakes that I Have Made

I had no idea how many mistakes I had made over the years until I started writing about them. When I was writing about my past content marketing writing mistakes last week,...
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5 Ways to Learn from My Content Marketing Writing Mistakes

I hate making mistakes. But, like everyone, I make them more often than I would like to admit. And I feel better about learning things the hard way (which sometimes...
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Writing a Great Content Marketing Writing Proposal: A Q&A with Kelly James-Enger

The first time a content marketing client asked me for a proposal, I was really glad that we were not on a video chat. I know I had a "deer...
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It’s Not All About the Money: What Writing about Turkeys Taught me About Freelancing

Every week I take time out of writing about social media, cloud computing and credit cards to write about church suppers, choir concerts and Bible Studies. I spend a few...
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7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Taking a Content Marketing Writing Test For Free

As I wrote earlier in the week, I am fundamentally opposed to companies asking writers to take a writing test for free. But I do not fault a writer at...
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Should You Write a Test Article for Free When Applying for a Freelance Content Marketing Writing Project?

In the past few months, I have been asked several times to write a test article for free when applying for a freelance job. While I don’t have a problem...
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6 Steps to Use Content Marketing Strategy to Find New Clients

Many writers think of content marketing only as a service that they can provide to brands and agencies.  But content marketing strategy also a very effective technique for content marketing writers to...
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Why it Can Take Months to Get Your First Assignment with a New Content Marketing Client

Each day I become more convinced that there is plenty of content marketing work for every skilled freelance writer who wants to write for brands and agencies. However, I think many...
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Yes, Writers Can Be Math People: How to Effectively Use Math and Statistics in Content Marketing Writing

Like many writers, I have always joked that I am not a math person. And I honestly believed it. But after hearing fellow writer Laura Laing speak at the ASJA conference last...
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How to Find 100 (Or More) Potential Content Marketing Writing Clients

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post stating that I thought writers who were in serious need of work should send out a lot of letters of introduction because freelance writing...
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5 More Tips for Finding the Best Contact Person for Your Content Marketing Letter of Introduction

I have spent the past few weeks focusing on marketing and have sent out over 100 letters of introductions this year so far. But I have to admit that one...
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