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Being Proactive - Finding Freelance Technical Writing and Editing Opportunities
Professional conferences and workshops are great opportunities for freelance technical writers and copy editors. The presenters often need your professional services and
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Promoting Your Business
According to Hillel Porath of Gavoah Marketing, "attracting clients is probably one of the hardest aspects in running a small business". For many of us, he is right. With his permission I've uploaded a copy of his 11 page list of recommendations that I think is worth reading. Click here to download...
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All About Indexing #8: Starting An Indexing Business, Part 2: Marketing
All About Indexing #7: Starting An Indexing Business, Part 1: Training
June 25 2008
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Hi, everyone! For my last two columns, I would like to talk about how one goes about starting an indexing business. I believe that the skills needed to become a good indexer are partly innate and partly acquired. My indexing teacher, the great Kari Kells, says in the introduction to her Basic Indexing Tutorial that on her first day of an indexing class she took in library school, she knew she had found the perfect career as her teacher described the way she had always automatically sorted her photos by category, and Kari nodding and smiling as she recalled her own automatic sorting of M&Ms by color, and music by genre, then alphabetical,then chronological, etc. (Anyone out there nodding and smiling at this?)
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Saving Money (Mobile, Landline, Internet)
Haaretz recently posted an article Be in Touch, With Your Phone Company which can help you reduce your cell phone, telephone and internet expenses. For example,
Read more...What Does a Shoe Store Have in Common with a Technical Writer?
October 18 2007
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Normally not much, but there is one shoe store in Florida that does. Technical writing is a niche business, and in Israel many of the more successful technical writers have created a niche-within a niche.
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Outsourcing - Which Writer Cost More?
In theory, a technical writing company can provide clients with a wider range of expertise and save writers from business related tasks, such as marketing and billing. In practice, the structure of the industry has created a situation where most successful writers prefer to work directly rather than through technical writing companies.
Read more...How do you negotiate a contract; what should be in a contract; payment in dollars or shekels?
COandPI - Copyeditors and Proofreaders Israel will meet on May 27 (Tel-Aviv) and 30 (Jerusalem) at 7:30 PM to discuss "How do you negotiate a contract; what should be in a contract; payment in dollars or shekels?" and "How would different editors edit the same material?"
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Gratis Anyone?
March 8 2007
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A popular writer's debate is whether or not to work for free. Should I pound out that article for nothing or next to nothing? Should I copyedit my friend's work just because? Do I help out with Acme Marketing Inc.'s campaign because they're starting up and they promise loads of future work?
It depends. On a number of things. But I've narrowed it to a few sorting criteria to help in the weeding process
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It depends. On a number of things. But I've narrowed it to a few sorting criteria to help in the weeding process
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Freelance Journalism: Taking the Leap
Freelance journalist Stephanie Freid (Scribblin' With Steph) shares why and how she plunged into the world of freelance journalism, how she got her business going and why she isn't looking back.
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