Want a quick way to an editor’s heart? Write your own headlines. Make it a practice to send a headline – and a deck too if a publication uses them – with every story you submit. Whether an editor actually uses your headline is beside the point. Writing headlines is good practice. And it shows […]
More than One Way to Make Freelancing Pay
In one episode of Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw character lands a freelance assignment for some incredible amount, like $4 a word. As a real-life freelance writer, I’ve never made $4 a word, or even met anybody who does. I’m not sure rates like that exist. Even $2 a word sounds […]
Outsourcing
I write a lot about outsourcing, the kind companies do to dispense with non-essentials and focus on what they make or sell. As an independent contractor, I know a thing or two about outsourcing from personal experience. The more things I don’t have to do in my non-work life, the more time I have for […]
Tech in the Columbia Gorge
Hood River, Oregon, is a special place. People visit because of the world-class windsurfing, apple and pear orchards, B&Bs and micro-brewed beer. It’s a picturesque town nestled on the banks of the Columbia River, with an old-fashioned downtown that’s home to lots of new coffee shops, restaurants and boutiques. Skiing on Mt. Hood is only […]
Social networking story on IncTechnology.com
Social networks are slowly oozing inside companies, which are rolling them out to better connect with employees and former employees. You can read more about the trend in OurSpace: Creating An In-House Network, a new story I wrote for IncTechnology.com. Inc., the magazine for entrepreneurs and small business, started IncTechnology in 2007 to cover technology […]
How Writers Can Use LinkedIn, Part II
Here are some more ways that writers can use LinkedIn, the business social networking site. To change who you are. You can change how you want to present yourself to the world by changing your LinkedIn profile. Do you want to depict yourself as a veteran writer? Change agent? Accomplished editorial manager? It’s kind of […]