Content Writing for Real Estate
Real estate writing can be clunky and filled with keywords in hopes of high SERPs… or beautiful and descriptive, designed to drive readers to the property in question. While keyword-heavy content might push readers away with its repetition and awkward flow, descriptive content risks not being found because of low keyword density. Try these tips […]
Translating Tech: Technical Writing Tips
From documentation to how-to text, technical writing can seem dry, stuffy, boring, or confusing – yet writers who speak tech can earn good money. Firms that hire technical writers need individuals who can cut through the jargon surrounding a product or topics, pick out the essential details – such as technical specifications or workflow tips […]
Breaking Grammar Rules
As writers, we’ve learned that content services require the writer to use a variety of styles. Also important to a writer is the use of higher level of grammatical skill. It’s important to remember that following the rules of grammar is not always the best way. Apart from the basics, like capitalization after a full […]
Monetize your Photographs
Consumers prefer photographs over other media when interacting with brands, research from ROI Research and Performics noted. It can be easy to see why: Photos have the ability to inspire and communicate in ways that words sometimes cannot. Images display how that jacket will look, how that recipe will turn out, or how bright that […]
Perfecting your Pitch
A pitch can make or break your chance at getting put on a client’s love list. Yet sometimes you’ve got to scramble for something fast — or risk being left behind. Are there systems or strategies for best pitches that you can turn to in a time crunch? If you find you’re not getting work you […]
What Am I Paying For?
You’ve got a great idea for an article that will drive traffic to your website and make money for your business, but you can’t write it yourself. “Let me get a top-notch freelancer,” you figure; after all, these guys are the best. They can do everything you can’t. At that exact moment, your vision for […]
Ghostwriter vs. Editor in Disguise
Ghostwriting generally involves content services or creating works of writing for a client who then takes ownership of the work as his own. This sort of agreement comes with the understanding that the writer will perform the bulk of the work with the client simply guiding how the final product should look. However, when a […]
Why Diversifying is Important to Freelance Writers
One of the things that freelance writers and content writers have in common is the fact that they can’t predict when or if they will get paying writing opportunities or how many they will get. For most, this makes it hard to know what their monthly income will be. While there are tremendous rewards to […]
The Rules of Audience Engagement
Nothing boosts your credibility as a writer better than connecting with your readers on a personal level. It isn’t enough to write fresh content. You need to go beyond day-to-day writing and get your target audience to care about what you are offering. Your ability to create engaging content could be the difference in landing […]
This American Life, Journatic, and You
As a lifelong public radio listener, I’ve had my share of so-called driveway moments, those times where the story on NPR is so captivating that I can’t get out of the car until it’s over. Only last month did I have a driveway moment with a story that cut so close to home: This American […]
When Content Websites Change – What the Freelance Writer Needs to Do
If the title of this article reminds you of a television program called When Animals Attack, you are in the right frame of mind. For a writer, seeing a content website change can invoke panic, fear and perhaps a wish to run screaming for the hills. Seasoned freelance writers have undoubtedly seen this happen many […]
Doing What You Do Best
An editor asked me years ago how many newspapers I read every day. As a young journalist, I thought I barely had enough time to schedule and conduct interviews, not to mention writing articles and meeting the deadlines for them each day. I wondered who actually had time to read a newspaper. The editor then […]