Ten Characteristics of a Good Client
Use these tips when evaluating whether you will continue to work with your current clients. Also, the comment from Kelly Parkinson has great tips to evaluate a potential client.
Proving You’re Worth More Money
In this post, Heather Boerner helps you negotiate for higher rates from current clients.
Follow Your Passions to Find New Clients
Passion is what drives most of us to writing, but sometimes economic realities force us to look beyond our passion to what best pays the bills. In this post, Shelley DeLuca suggests that we return to our passions and find ways to make them pay our bills. If poetry is your passion, make it your greatest focus. If macroeconomics gets you going, find the clients who will best appreciate your skill and your interest.
Busy Parent Writer: Keep an Eye Out for Tax Deductions
What do I learn from tax season every year? “This year, I need to keep better records.” In this post on the Writer Mama blog, Sharon Miller Cindrich reminds us of things we can write off. I’ve already done my taxes for 2008 (and spent most of the refund, to tell you the truth–Ducks season tickets are not cheap), but these tips will help me keep better records for 2009.
Defining the Blog Tour
L.J. Sellers defines blog tours, then solicits feedback about how to handle a tour. I am planning a tour for this summer, when my book comes out, so I found this very interesting. Ican’t wait to see all of your comments on her blog.
Business Building on a Shoestring
Goals. Goals bedevil me, even though I know they are necessary. Tiffany Colter provides tips here to help set the goals for your writing business.
Lift Every Voice: In Search of the Writer’s Voice
Voice is one of the key components of a query, either for a book, short story, or article idea. How can you find your voice and ensure that it shines through in all of your writing?
Do Magazines Publishers Have an Irrational Fear of Digital?
The popularity of digital publishing avenues strikes fear in the heart of many in the print world. I think digital and print can co-exist–some types of publications make sense in print, while others work best online. This exploration of the hypocrisy of print executives who use their Blackberries to complain about the death of print gives a little perspective.
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