One of the things many freelancers – everyone, actually – get hung up on is facing their fears. Moving out of their comfort zone. If you have trouble with rejection, querying can be difficult and cold calling can be down right painful. If your hangup is public speaking, accepting seminar opportunities may give you sleepless [...]

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I was cruising the job boards today, and came across this blogging job for Geek Girl on the Street.
Geek Girl on the Street (http://geekgirlonthestreet.com) is a new web publication focusing on geeky adventure and storytelling. Launched in January 2010, we are thriving and growing, attracting +1,000 weekly visitors (we anticipate hitting our goal of 50,000 [...]

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About a year ago, when I was first starting out as a freelancer, Elle Magazine needed an assistant “advice vixen” for their Ask EJean column online. The job amounted to checking in on the EJean advice forums a few times a day, giving twee responses to dull life/fashion/relationship questions, and getting paid $3000 for it.
Sounded [...]

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I’ve written recently about Ali Hale’s Staff Blogging Course, which has already paid for itself. I spent $19 to buy it, and already landed a gig that will pay me $50 a week. Quite a nice return on investment, no? Just by searching around in the right places, and setting my blogging prices appropriately, I [...]

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This isn’t really for me, so I thought I’d share with y’all. I don’t normally do this, but the name of the company caught my eye: Swami SEO. Heh. How can you go wrong with a swami, right? Anyway, here’s the job. They are looking to hire 5 bloggers, working remotely.
SwamiSEO is part of London [...]

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