This Friday we’re improving our grammar one comma at a time.

When I started freelance writing I put zero money down. I began it as an experiement in the evenings after my day job. I knew I loved to write, I had good reviews of my writing and great success in college English classes, but I wasn’t sure how it would work as a business idea. The experiment was a success and now I’m a full-time freelance writer working in the comfort of my own home. However, if I could start over again there is definitely one thing I would have done differently – created a larger financial cushion.

It’s easy as a Freelance Writer to forget about your own blog. Just look at me. Over the past few months I’ve been back and forth with consistancy and now, looking at my end product – well, I’m disapointed in myself. Afterall, how can I prove to a potential client that I’m the best choice for their job?

With all of the internet marketing hype out there it can be difficult for many small business owners to determine what exactly they should be doing to promote their business online. “Do I need a twitter campaign?”, “Should I create a Squidoo lense?”, “What should I blog about?” and “Whatever happened to print advertising anyway?”

I’m beginning to think about goals for 2009. As Yuwanda writes in her latest Newsletter, becomming a successful freelance writer depends on what goals you select and how well you stick to them. Not necessarily the number of things you want to write, or clients you want to attract – but the concepts that those goals represent.

Today is the first day of my new freelancing site – WeeWebWork. I’ve been wanting to put it together for a while now, but times have been tight with my personal budget and personal time. But now I’m here, and I’d like to tell you a little bit about how I fell into freelance writing. [...]

photo credit: Vince Kusters I have been a fan of WordPress for several years now. I had been hard coding sites for a while and found it time consuming. Instead of providing content, I was constantly redesigning the look and feel. Then a friend introduced me to the WordPress platform – and I was in [...]