How Can You Find Out The Salary Of A Freelance Proofreader?
May 16, 2008
How Can You Find Out The Salary Of A Freelance Proofreader?
by: Niall Cinneide
How can you establish the earning potential for a new job? For example if you are looking for the salary of a freelance editor, how will you find this information? There are several ways that you can do this. However there is one determining factor that will cause you to be better or lower than the average you find. That is experience.
First, we will talk a bit about the salary of the freelance editor. Then, we will get into the qualifications that allow you to find where you can place yourself.
To find the information that you need about salaries look online. There are many websites that will actually calculate the average income from many positions. These websites can also tell you the forecasts for employment in these fields. You may look for jobs in editing and vacancies as well. To find them, just do a simple search. Or, look to your favorite job posting boards that have editing positions available. There you can see how much is being charged for each project and gauge your level of skill and experience accordingly. The websites that offer income information are free to the public to use.
How to Write a Resume That Stands Out From The Crowd
May 16, 2008
How to Write a Resume That Stands Out From The Crowd
by: Rumki Sen
Today’s job market is competitive. Many companies receive hundreds of resumes a year, making it difficult for yours to stand out from the crowd. However, that should not keep you from getting interviews. The following 10 tips will help you learn how to get employers to read your resume and get your phone ringing.
1. Include a profile
Begin your resume with a profile, which contains a synopsis of your varied skills and educational qualifications. This profile should match the particular job you want to apply for. State your career objective clearly so that the reader gets an overall idea of your background and areas of expertise. Write this section in such a manner that it immediately catches the attention of a hiring manager, and he calls you instead of someone else.
2. Keep the resume short
No one has the time to go through elaborate detailing about your past jobs and experiences. Therefore, keep the resume short. Make a list of the most important jobs you have held and give a brief of your previous job-oriented experiences. However, in the case of technical people, resumes can extend to three pages in order to include relevant technical information.
Depression Can Turn into Joy
May 16, 2008
Depression Can Turn into Joy
by: Ann Stewart
Depression is the most prevalent disease of our time. Under the guise of informing the public, both the medical profession and the media are constantly “warning” us of the dangers and probabilities of the disease most likely to terminate us. News about a lack of sufficient influenza vaccine is enough to get our collective blood pressure soaring.
Bad news is chronic and it affects us all. Do I have a magic pill that will make all the bad go away? No. But, there are ways to help us stay out of depression.
Live One Day At a Time
The Bible admonishes us to live each day to the fullest as there’s enough evil in one day to handle! Don’t look back on past hurts, nor fret about tomorrow. Live today as if it is the only day you have. Make each day so full of the present that yesterday and its problems are completely shut out and tomorrow is unattainable! Choose to focus all your thoughts and energy on what is at hand, and do everything to the best of your ability.
Watch Your Tongue!
7 Keys to Writing a Children’s Book that Sells Like Hotcakes
May 15, 2008
7 Keys to Writing a Children’s Book that Sells Like Hotcakes
by: Caterina Christakos
There are seven fundamental reasons that some books succeed and others collect dust on the author’s bookshelf. These seven keys to success as an author are simple, obvious even, and yet in the midst of our writing many of us forget them.
We get so focused on the idea of the book that we forget the mechanics. Here is the strategy that award winning authors use:
1) Create a hero that your audience can relate to.
Examine your target market honestly. Who will be reading your book? Just because you think that your main character is funny, charming and brilliant doesn’t mean that they will or even that that is what they care about.
2) Write for your audience, not your highschool English professor. There has already been a Shakespeare. Most genres do not require you to write like him. You will just turn your audience off if you write at a level beyond their comprehension.
3) Give your reader a problem that he or she can empathize with.
How To Improve Your Freelance Proofreading Career
May 14, 2008
How To Improve Your Freelance Proofreading Career
by: Niall Cinneide
Did you know that one of the best ways to get the knowledge you need to be an effective proof reader is to take a training course? It will be the best move you ever make. Courses are not mandatory, but it can be very challenging to find work that is available to those who do not have a proofreading training certification.
If you are trying to build your freelance business, it can be difficult to find the time to take a training course. Who has the time to travel back and forth from college to get this degree or certification? We won’t even mention the costs of enrolling into the college either. But proofreading training courses can be done online. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can use a mail based proof reading course as well if you like.
Take classes when you have time. The cost is much less than that of a traditional college. The best part is that if you take the time to find it, you can take the proof reading courses through an accredited college meaning that you are actually getting a college education.
Where Can You Find The Best Resources For Technical Writing
May 14, 2008
Where Can You Find The Best Resources For Technical Writing
by: Niall Cinneide
As a freelance writer, it is important that you have a solid foundation for your skill. In many cases, though, there may be a need to use technical writing resoures to excel. Because there are many fields in which an individual can work in, there are just as many different bits of knowledge that they must have. In order to build a business as a freelance writer, it is important to find and use technical resources as necessary. But, finding these can prove to be difficult for some people.
It is wise to study and research the topic long before beginning the piece of work. This will take time and it will be necessary. There are many options to researching though. There are the traditional encyclopedias and dictionaries that can answer many questions. The problem with these, though, is that they are often outdated especially in the technology fields.
Instead, the researcher can take their quest online. It is quite important to avoid the search engine jumbles though as these can simply point the researcher in the direction of ads that sell. Unfortunately, solid information will need to come from knowing which websites to go to. A little work in this area and there will be no problem though.
Tips On Proofreading To Improve Your Freelance Career
May 13, 2008
Tips On Proofreading To Improve Your Freelance Career
by: Niall Cinneide
Proofreading is a career which many people are looking to get into, but often the knowledge of what to do, when to do it, and especially how to do it is hard to come by. For that reason, there are many things that are important to know in order to succeed, as the career path is not simple at all. It is important to have as much information as possible to put you ahead of others in the game! Here are some tips of proofreading here that will help anyone.
Proofreading may seem simple, but the you must be able to read well and also be able to spot spelling mistakes. Simple mistakes can ruin the copy. There are certain words that are often misspelled. Others are typing errors. Some individuals can flip flop word order or even make really grammatical errors. Here are some other common problems to look for.
* Sentence structure is often a problem. Make sure that the proper wording is used to convey the point being made.
* Punctuation errors, especially the use of commas, colons, and semi colons, are often made.
The Importance of A Website Copywriter
May 12, 2008
The Importance of A Website Copywriter
by: Niall Cinneide
A website copywriter has several jobs. They will need to provide the information, the words, and the persuasive text that is used within any site that is visited. For many individuals, this means that they will need to know the products, understand the site owner’s needs, and to be able to draw customers into the site by providing interesting and informative information. Getting into this field takes a true understanding of how the World Wide Web really works. And, it takes diligence, hard work, and perseverance as well. A copywriter has a very important job to do.
A copywriter needs to understand how people get to the site. They need to do copywriting that will encourage others to visit and to eventually purchase the products available at the site. Copywriters have some of the most important jobs online because they help to get traffic to go in the right way. For example, many people open their web browsers and go directly to a search engine to find what they need. Good writing will allow the search engine to get the person to the right site. There, they will find the products or information they need.
Why Ezine Articles Make Me Dance
May 12, 2008
Why Ezine Articles Make Me Dance
by: Timothy Ward
I wrote my first ezine article in December 2001. I titled it ‘The Power of Online Friendship’. It was five paragraphs long and contained 3 typos. I used it to promote ‘The Free Promotion Tips Ezine’, an ezine of mine that has long since faded into the Great Void of Cyberspace. I still think it’s one of my most moving articles.
I danced around the house, riverdance-style, for about 10 minutes when I read the email from Chuck Bowden, the editor of Your Ad Space Ezine, who promised to use my article. That was quite possibly one of the happiest days of my adult life.
I’m aware that most of you have more thrilling lives than me and, therefore, would not find getting an article published online to be a crowning acheivement in your life. I, however, live a life of loneliness and solitude and would thank you not to rub your lives in my face.
The Secret Source of Clear Content
May 11, 2008
The Secret Source of Clear Content
by: Susan Raab
You can do anything in four easy steps!
An outrageous claim, no? But I can prove it. Because you’re doing it now.
Imagine your laundry basket. What are you going to wash today? Ah, socks. How will you wash them? In the machine. Now you do the wash and when the socks come out of the dryer, you wonder, “are they done?” Are they really clean and dry? Are they both there? Don’t you have to match them and fold them and put them away? Because what you really want is socks that are ready to wear. And soon enough, they’ll be back in your laundry basket again.
This is the circle of life: you decide what you want to do and how you want to do it; then you do it and check whether it’s really done. The pattern’s easy to see with a simple project, but when you’re facing a complex project like writing a book, it’s easy to get muddled.
To get where you’re going, know where you are.
Many of my clients just start writing, trusting that their urge to say something will produce something someone (maybe even everyone!) will want to read.
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