Twitter Won’t Make You Rich, Famous or Drive Tons of Traffic To Your Website
The other day I got an email from another freelancer. He’s not a writer, but our respective freelancing professions have a lot in common. Recently, he started up a website with a blog. What he...
View ArticleShould You Use WWW In Your Domain Name Or Not?
Do some reading on domain names and what good ones are, as well as a little bit on search engine optimization and eventually you will come across the very sound advice to only use www.domain.com or...
View ArticleBuilding Websites and Blogs to Achieve Total Writing Freedom
This blog, and all of my other “serious” websites, are built on WordPress. I’ve tried Blogger, but just can’t seem to get into it, and frankly, if you are going to build up an empire of websites, the...
View ArticleBuild a Custom WordPress Site Using Free Theme
One of the things that make WordPress the dominant blogging platform on the Internet is that it is free and customizable. It is so customizable that there are thousands of themes available. A theme...
View ArticleAutomatic Tweets Update
As regular readers here at ArcticLlama’s freelance writing business blog are aware, I’ve been building up my presence in the online space, especially in the social media arena. Frankly, I’m not sure...
View ArticleControlling Your Freelancing Brand Name Versus Additional Exposure
Over the past couple of years I have flirted with writing for various online publishing systems. I never really go the hang of Squidoo (or I did and just didn’t like it), but I have writer accounts on...
View ArticleGet More Search Engine Traffic By Changing Your Writing … for the Worse!
To get more search engine traffic there are a lot of things you can do. You can read all about search engine optimization until you go blind. You could even hire an SEO consultant if you have money to...
View ArticleSocial Networking For Writers
Can Writers Benefit From Social Networking? It seems like the bandwagon only bangs the drum louder with each passing day. You MUST be fully immersed in the world of social networking, and/or social...
View ArticleOnline Marketing Guide for Freelance Writers
Actually, this is an online marketing guide for everyone, but it should be used extensively by freelance writers as well. If you know anything about online marketing, SEO, or social networking (social...
View ArticleFreelance Writer Needs Coffee, Twitter Optional
This morning started off kind of slow. I woke up with a headache. It was not one of those headaches you get in a general region like the front or back of your head, but one of those headaches you get...
View ArticleDifferent Worlds of Twitter
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m working on a book about how to build an online writing business. I was making some notes about Twitter and how to use Twitter as a freelance writer, and when building your...
View ArticleBusiness Webpage Email Address
As a former systems administrator (which comes in handy when writing about technology) I know some things that seem basic to me, but I realize after talking to people aren’t necessarily all that...
View ArticleLocal Business Websites Denver Area and Beyond
Recently, a friend shared a post from another friend, who was sharing the post of one of his friends who owns a music store in the Denver area. (It’s not in Denver, specifically, but as they say, some...
View ArticleHow To Build a Social Media Campaign for Your Website – Day 1
So, I’ve got a website called Finance Gourmet. It’s a pretty great personal finance blog, if I do say so myself. At first, I published it mainly as a way to build up some credibility and finance...
View ArticleHow To Build a Social Media Campaign for Your Website – Day 2
OK, yesterday I got going on building a social media marketing campaign for my personal finance website by doing the very simple task of firing off some tweets from the Finance Gourmet twitter account,...
View ArticleArcticLlama Facebook Page and Thoughts on Gig Writing Platforms
I have a Facebook Page for Arctic Llama. Usually, I just post links to stuff I wrote back here as I have found that Facebook hasn’t really been a great source of freelance writing marketing for me....
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