Tag Archive: writing

Nov
28

7 websites that you should be visiting on a daily basis

I am here!

I have managed to fend off a self induced turkey coma long enough to drag myself back to the keyboard. I do not know how long I will be able to stay upright but I couldn’t let the Thanksgiving holidays slip away without giving a few thanks of my own. I am constantly surfing the net to …

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Nov
15

Dont you take that tone with me!

Make your business stand out from the rest

I learned very early that tone is important when trying to communicate with other people. If I took the wrong tone when talking to my mom, she would have me out looking for a switch of the correct length and heft. For you non-southerners that do not know what a switch is, I envy you. …

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Nov
04

Want to know how to get clients that need writing for the web?

Question 1

I have been working on an article about how freelance writers can go about getting new clients and exposure for their website. The more I write the bigger the topic seems to get so, unfortunately, it is not finished yet. I noticed today that Carson Brackney wrote an article on the same subject and his article …

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Oct
27

5 article writing tips for complex subjects

Press Release Mistakes

Have you ever heard the phrase “It reads like stereo instructions”? It is a phrase that I think of a lot while I am reading articles and documents written by IT and computer experts. Often times the authors are incredibly intelligent so they assume that they are also great writers. Wrong! Usually, the people that …

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Oct
21

5 ways to boost your website visibility

Any business that wants to be taken seriously has a website but what good is a website that has no readers? If you want your website to be passed around the internet as a place to go and be easily found by search engines then you need great content. If you are planning on being …

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Apr
19

5 ways to overcome writers block

Have you ever sat staring at the blank white paper in front of you and froze? The grand idea and creativity that you had a moment ago has dissolved into a slobbering incoherence. Well, your not alone. That blank page is the leading cause of brain freeze in our country but there are treatment options …

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Apr
14

4 things to avoid when posting on a business blog

I have been trying to optimize  my website for a while now.  So, I have been reading all kinds of business blogs as research and asking my colleagues for advice. Christopher Duncan, a fellow writer and owner of Practical Strategy Consulting went out of his way to help me fine tune my blog and as a consequence …

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Feb
17

Grant Writing – The journey begins…

I had to take a break after my writing challenge, it is surprising how much it takes out of you. While my writing muscles were recuperating I started looking into grant writing. I already knew the generalities of the subject but after talking with a friend that runs a non-profit, I started looking into it …

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Jan
30

6 Lessons I learned from a month of straight writing

I have come down to the wire on my writing challenge, the deadline is tomorrow night. The headache I have had for the last two weeks has been worth it because I have learned more about my craft in the last month than I have in all the assignments I have had. Here is a …

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