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.