Recommended reading for March 16, 2012: Pinterest, Patch and Kindle Singles
The week’s best for writers – getting to know Pinterest, an insider’s take on Patch, and earning big bucks selling Kindle Singles.
Best of WordCount: content aggregators and hyperlocal news
In light of news Yahoo is buying Associated Content, this Best of WordCount edition features posts I’ve written on content aggregators and hyperlocal news.
What Yahoo’s deal for Associated Content means for writers
Yahoo took its biggest step yet to keep pace with Google, Facebook and other online giants getting into the news business when the company announced May 18 it would acquire content aggregator Associated Content for a reported $100 million. What does the deal mean for the lowly writers producing all that content Yahoo found so attractive? [...]
Goodbye to all that: the 2009 freelance year in review
Content aggregators, hyperlocal news and my other picks for last year’s top media industry trends and what they mean for freelance writers in 2010.
AOL’s news initiative: freelance friend or foe?
It remains to be seen whether AOL’s online news endeavor will turn out to be a legitimate market for freelance work, or give new meaning to the term bad seed.
If you're in freelance, you're in sales
Freelancing isn’t about writing. It’s about sales. To be good at freelance writing, you have to be good at sales.
The great freelance rate debate continues
Writing for content aggregators and rates that those companies pay are much-discussed, much disagreed upon subjects in the freelance writing world – and that’s putting it mildly.
The race to the bottom
Do you focus on the lowest-common denominator freelance gigs that are easier to come by and easier to write but pay less and have a heck of a lot more competition vying for the opportunity? Or do you aim higher, going for the tougher assignments that are harder to land, harder to complete but pay more too?
WordCount Q&A: Helium.com CEO Mark Ranalli
Mark Ranalli makes no excuses for Helium.com. The website he helped start in 2006 isn’t the New York Times and never will be, and that’s OK with Ranalli, who describes the venture as a pro-am writing platform, where like cream, the best writing rises to the top and is compensated accordingly. One of a new [...]
The long tail of blogging
When was the last time you looked over your old blog posts? You should, because your readers are. If you’re like me, you probably spend more time thinking about whatever it is you’re working on today or have to start next week. But there’s value in looking in the opposite direction. This hit home this [...]
