Small(ish) Market, Big Noise: Tracey Zeeck Creates Regional Buzz for Local Businesses
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Niche Content Creator: How Rachel Arnone Sells Numbers by the Letter
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Five Smart Ways to Drive Traffic (and Clients) to Your Online Portfolio
In a rather startling statistic, digital media experts now estimate that the average wired and tired American sees anywhere from 4,000 to...
For the Love of Your Freelancing Peers: 5 Cloying Clichés to Avoid in Career Advice
Run, don’t walk! Literally every time I log into Facebook, I’m presented with someone else’s career dilemma and a long thread of...
In the Case of an Unhappy Client, What’s a Freelancer to Do?
The perfect freelancer scenario goes something like this. Client desperately needs help. Client finds superstar freelancer based on a...
Australian Writer Lindy Alexander on Being a Self-Employed Creative in Oz
As ClearVoice expands our talent roster and client list internationally, we’ve begun reaching out to top-tier freelancers in foreign but...
The Niche Freelancer: Designing Ebook Covers (and Lightning Strikes) for Self-Publishers
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Or, if copywriters do their job, maybe one word balances one picture. Or, if authors are...
The Niche Content Creator: Writing for IT and Services
Simultaneously intangible and highly complex, the IT and services space is beyond most writers’ grasp — which is why those with...
5 Smart Things Freelancers Can Do to Keep Clients Coming Back for More
Congratulations, your freelance “business” is officially up and running. Thanks to all that time you spent primping your portfolio,...
The Life of Independent Creatives: Strangers Say the Darndest Things to Freelancers
There was an interesting career meme that made its way around Facebook a couple years ago: “What my mom thinks I do,” vs. “What my...
How to Prepare for Your First Writers’ Conference
Writers’ conferences are a great way to learn and network and maybe even make some lifelong friends. Getting together with others who...
Positioning Your Freelance Portfolio for Success: 9 Tips From ‘The Career Guy’
When it comes to self-improvement, we like our coaches. A savvy spiritual guide. The CrossFit trainer who squeezed an extra six reps out...
How to Approach Your Graphic Design Portfolio: Academia, Industry Share Insights
My mother used to always tell me that behind every good content marketer there is a good graphic designer. Okay, so maybe that’s not how...
Invisible, Yet Influential: Six Lucrative Ghostwriting Genres
A ghostwriter is someone who does all the hard work of writing, while someone else gets the byline or author credit. Why would a person...
Keep Your Brain Sharp: 5 Apps for Word Nerds and Smarty Pants
Twenty years ago, we had Snake. Before apps, it was the only game our brick-looking Nokia’s could support, and it was better...
8 Ways Digital Nomad Journalists Stay Productive
If you take Instagram for its word, travel journalism appears to be the crème de la crème of gigs. Not only are these writers given the...
A Guide to Making More in Digital Content Writing (Well, Is There Any Other Kind?)
For better or worse, the digital age has made us all writers. Today’s blog entry? Meticulously crafted. Yesterday’s tweet? Timely and...
After Copy Editing: 4 Fool-Proof Tips for Proofreaders
We’ve all done it: Copy edit something terribly before it gets to design. The designers make it fit perfectly on the page and send it...
Niche Expert: Social Media Content Creator Nikki Goethals Is the Voice of 60 Brands
Social media content writing tends to get brushed off as unserious by traditional writers: People get paid to Tweet 15 words, or put 8...



















