by Susan Lovett | Jan 26, 2022 | Blog, Business Advice, Clients, Writing Career |
Explore strategies and tactics for finding client-based work in this third installment in the series on finding new work in 2022. We’ll finish up the series next week with a blog focusing on strategies and tactics for freelance writers (articles, blogs, etc) and those writing novels or nonfiction books.
Taking on clients is a great way to boost your business. Not only does it open up your potential sources of income, but clients offer a variety of benefits to any freelance business.
by Susan Lovett | Jan 18, 2022 | Blog, Business Advice, Writing Career |
What are you goals in 2022? What do you need to do to reach them? This series looks at the questions you need to ask and answer to achieve your vision. It looks at questions like, how many words do you want to write? How many clients do you need? How many assignments? How much will you need to charge to make it?
by Susan Lovett | Jan 11, 2022 | Blog, Business Advice, Freelancing, Writing Career |
Success looks different these days. Our world has changed these past couple of years and freelancing has become more common and more competitive. Standing out as a freelance writer or author has become a bit harder. How will you succeed?
This series looks at setting yourself up for success in the new year. January is the perfect time to set a course for the months ahead. It’s typically a slow period for freelancing and the weather invites introspection and planning.
by Susan Lovett | Dec 28, 2021 | Blog, Business Advice, Writing Career |
Finish out the year with our list of year-end tasks designed specifically for freelance writers.
by Susan Lovett | Dec 21, 2021 | Blog, Business Advice, Writing Career |
Finish the year strong by doing a series of year-end tasks designed to help you analyze how you did last year and set you up for a more successful year in 2022.
by Susan Lovett | Dec 14, 2021 | Blog, Business Advice, Writing Career |
Time has flown this year and it is time again to close out another year of writing.
This is a great time to take stock of where you are with your writing and get organized for the year to come. Finish our your freelance writing year with a few year-end tasks. Below you will find part one of our three-part series on steps writers and small businesses should take to finish out a year for better success in the new one.
by Susan Lovett | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog, Business Advice, Freelancing, Writing Career |
It’s a new year, finally, and, despite coming off a rocky year, there is room for hope and anticipation for the year ahead. This pandemic will pass and life will resume. It always does. Eventually.
Work will resume too. I know many of us (me included) took a beating last year, losing contracts, work, and facing grim prospects. But this too will change. All you need is patience and some preparation so you’re ready to grab opportunities as they appear. And they will appear. Trust me.
by Susan Lovett | Oct 6, 2020 | A Writer's Life, Blog, Business Advice, Motivation |
In this series on rejection, we’ve looked at how to handle the disappointment and reason behind rejections. Now let’s get a little bit of perspective.
Every writer gets rejected. Every one. Even the best.
by Susan Lovett | Sep 29, 2020 | A Writer's Life, Blog, Business Advice, Motivation |
In the first blog of this series, we talked about how to handle rejection. Now let’s look at why rejections happen…and they are going to happen.
by Susan Lovett | Sep 22, 2020 | A Writer's Life, Blog, Business Advice, Motivation |
Rejection is part of a writer’s life no matter if you are writing books, scripts, speeches or blogs. Every writer has been rejected at some point in letters, emails, texts, phone calls and in person. And it never gets easier.
by Susan Lovett | Aug 18, 2020 | Blog, Business Advice, Freelancing, Writing Career |
In the first two blogs of this three-part series, we talked about what to prepare to do a marketing push and how to find new clients. Now we’re going to look at what to do during the in-between bits—between your preparation and your initial pitches.
Not Landing Jobs
by Susan Lovett | Aug 11, 2020 | Blog, Business Advice, Clients, Writing Career |
In the first part of this blog series on finding freelance work, we talked about things you should do before you begin your marketing and sales pitches. Now we’ll look at concrete actions you can take to find work.