Freelancing: Freelance Hints, Tips & Strategies by Michelle L Devon

  Hi everyone! Michelle L Devon here, or Michy, if you will.

A few months ago, I posted a link to Today.com in my writers forum, letting folks know it was a legitimate paying lead for freelance writers. I had verified the lead with others who had written for Today.com, but  I never actually came over here to sign up myself. Strange, huh?

Well, tonight, after seeing how everyone was doing, and being a glutton for punishment, not to mention loving to blog, I decided to sign up to blog for Today.com myself, and add just one more blog to the long list of existing blogs I manage. Call me crazy!

The result of that decision is this blog, called: Freelancing!

On this blog, I will be writing about freelancing tips, hints and strategies. While I’ll primarily focus on freelance writing, I will also be talking about other freelancing strategies and avenues for income while working from home or being self employed. These strategies may include things such as paid-to-blog, paid-to-read, bid sites (such a oDesk, Elance and Guru), as well as discussing how to promote a freelance business - regardless of the services or products your company provides - through avenues such as article promotion, advertising, pinging, link reciprocity, social networking, press releases and more. Also, I intend to discuss some of the legal and fiscal aspects of freelancing, including some potential pitfalls that sometimes cause self-employed professionals to give it up and go back to the corporate world, and ways to prevent that from happening.

Again, I will focus mostly on writing, because that is the biggest part of what I do, and any good company needs to be able to ‘write’ well, or at least hire someone who can, to promote the company… but mostly, I want this blog to be about the struggles and triumphs of freelancing, in general, for those who want to build their own freelance business, regardless of the services provided.

Soon, I will have some great links and places to visit in the blogroll here to help with your freelancing career, along with some neat tools to subscribe to this blog, my newsletter, or other things to help you build your freelancing career, particularly if you are wanting to be a freelance writer, but for anybody looking to freelance for a living, give up your day job, or just bring in a few hundred bucks more per month.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you’ll keep coming back everyday for new updates. I’ll do my besst to update by 10am, central time, Mon-Fri, at a minimum, sometimes more than that!

Love and stuff,

Michy

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