Personal Fulfillment & Solopreneur Productivity Coach | RomCom Novelist
Normally I’m not a “holiday gift list” kind of blogger—I always get a kick out of seeing them on other people’s blogs, but it’s generally just not my thing. However, I have recently come across a number of really cool things and had to share them, along with some classic gift ideas. Get them for …
Read FAQ About the Freelance Life: Part One by clicking here! The below are some of the questions that inevitably arise during conversation with non-freelancers. I love getting questions about my freelance life – it’s certainly not for everyone, but it’s important that everyone understand that it’s an option that might work for them (and …
Writing is a skill we can always get better at – and practice is something that definitely helps improve our skill! Here are a few tips for how to practice writing to improve your skills at it: Try writing for a genre or in a style you have never done before. If you generally write …
Rather than doing an hourly breakdown or a daily breakdown of my freelance life, this week I figured I’d share with you my project breakdown! These are the projects I worked on this week: Edited a manuscript and created content for the back-of-the-book blurb. Updated and managed social media for a client. Conducted a website …
Last week we talked about why testimonials are important for freelancers. Now it’s time to discuss how to request testimonials from your clients! Here are some tips for asking for testimonials from clients: Ask for testimonials from clients with whom you have an established relationship and history. I was working part-time as a freelancer for …
Saturdays, as you know, are a bit of a mixed bag around here! While I’ll mostly be posting updates on the past week, sharing quotes and ideas from the week, and providing insights into the freelance life, I might also occasionally slip in something like a word of the day—just for the fun of it …
All freelancers can benefit from having testimonials and recommendations for their work. Just as you wouldn’t hire someone as an employee until you did a few reference checks, you also want to make sure that your freelancer is highly recommended by their past clients. Getting freelance gigs is a little bit different with each client. …
Editing is HARD… but you make it look so easy! – One of my client’s who creates academic worksheets, web copy, and manuscripts. When one of my clients made the above comment about my work, it made my day – and it also reminded me that not everyone can do what I do. I think …
Here’s the thing: I love 95% of my work. It’s awesome and enjoyable and challenging and wonderful. Anything related to editing makes me very happy, and nearly all of my writing tasks are also highly interesting and enjoyable. But as a new freelancer, I occasionally have to take on work that is only vaguely related …
Six months into my journey as a home-based business owner, here’s what a day in my life (specifically, Wednesday October 29) looks like: 7:45am Roll out of bed to go for a run. 8:30am Return home from running and get cleaned up. 9:15am Settle down at the computer with a cup of tea and a …
So you have a few different social media accounts—or you run the social media for several different clients—and you’re wondering about when you should and should not cross-promote between the brands. This is a really important question to take into consideration, because it can help enhance the different social media accounts you’re managing… but if …
As promised in my recent Blog Makeover article over at Living Healthy in the Real World, I’ll now be posting re-caps of the past week as a home-based business owner (as well as thoughts from the week and answering FAQs about the freelance life) every Saturday here at Living Rhetorically in the Real World! Here’s …
You can be far more productive (and avoid a lot of headaches!) by making a few small changes to your organizational system. This can work for both the office or in the home—and if you have a home-based business, then this is exactly what you need! Grab the cheatsheet to save 45+ hours each month …
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is just around the corner! The fun begins on November 1st, and the idea is to write a 50,000-word novel over the course of one month. I participated in Camp NaNoWriMo this past July (read all about my experience with Camp NaNoWriMo by clicking here), and I’m looking forward to …
This is the month of mid-terms for many university students. I’ve been finished school for many years now, but while I was in university I picked up a lot of great strategies for studying for exams. My toughest subject was History of Science – great course and professor, but understanding the science component was tricky …