Here is My Experience in Freelancing

After I gave up my work somewhere in 2006 I noticed that the internet became popular in the Philippines, you can see different café and computer shop being put up in different busy street and places. Which yours truly also joined the bandwagon and start my own internet café business.

Business is good at beginning but because this is a business to set up easily the competition became crowded and day by day I lost customers. I knew then that my business will not last and soon I have no choice but to close it. But before that I began to research different way to earn at home which I met a few bloggers to help me set up my own blog.

From that day I started to learn a lot in freelancing from PPC to microjobs that earns a little. Soon I began to make some profit from my blog with direct advertisers and SEO managers like SocialSpark, SponsoredReviews and ads in Nuffnang. I also tried Adsense but because I am not SEO experts earning in this kind of advertisement is so minimal. I then concentrate in writing in my blogs and even took the challenge to write for other bloggers called as a ghost writer.

Freelancing is amazing, because who needs to drive to go at work when I can just simply turn on my laptop and do my things I love. Freelancing and writing is the answer for unemployment and I encourage you to do the same if you don’t have job or you just hated your current job.

To read more for the details of my history in freelancing, visit my post at MyExperience in Freelancing

PWG Discussion: Journal Posts & Discussions vs. Articles

In visiting some of the other posts on PWG, I see quite a few that are journal posts: chatty, about me, what-I-did-today, what-I-am thinking kinds of posts, what my pet did, what my toaster did, how much PWG has changed since I last visited, etc. It looks like those posts are fine here, so this is not a complaint, but there is a difference between a journal post and an article, and if we are attracting readers by promoting our news, journalism, creative writing or other articles, they may quickly lose interest in Preferred Writers Group if the next post that they read is just journal-type chatter.

However, what if we prefaced any chatty posts with the word "Journal?" Like "Journal: What I Did Today," "Journal: My Thoughts" "Journal: What My Toaster Did" etc.? That way a visitor would know they were heading to a journal-type entry when they clicked on a post marked "Journal."

I would like to suggest the same for PWG Discussion posts--again, visitors are not going to be interested in our discussion posts. We, on the other hand, do want to read other people's thoughts, ideas and suggestions about this group. Maybe we could earmark our discussions to make it easy for our writers to find them, and easy for our visitors to avoid them. For instance, I used "PWG Discussion" on this post. We can also use the labels/tags "journal" and "discussion" to help earmark them.

We all want page views, but we absolutely WILL LOSE READERS if they come to read articles and hit upon group discussions and idle chatter or daily accounting posts from the other site some of you guys post about so much. If we just post for each other to read, that is a maximum 70-ish readers now--hardly enough to earn any income. We need to be attracting outside readers who will enjoy reading several articles while they are here.

Honestly, I don't want to promote my articles to my professional circles and then have them stumble on something stream-of-conscience here unless they know ahead of time they are about to read someone's journal entry. I know we are supposed to be "good connectors," but there are some posts I am just not going to share or feel obligated to comment on if they don't have a point worth passing along.

Maybe I am the only one who feels that way, which is fine. I am just testing the waters here anyway, and this may not be a good fit, but I thought I would toss my ideas out there and see what the rest of you think and at least give you something to chew on.

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• Writing Tip: How to Write a Basic Press Release to Get Articles and Blogs Noticed!
• Writing Tip: How to Write Good Articles for Content-Driven Web Sites
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• The Dyslexic Writer - a Journalist Coping with Dyslexia   

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Show Them What You've Got!

Your writing is an extension of you as a person. What you present to the world is what they will remember about you. I realize this is a subject that is not approached on many other sites, but I feel the need to make this a high priority here.

You see, I am also an editor on Fullofknowledge.com. Our standards there are very high. I do not want to be an editor here, I want you all to speak your mind, in your own voice, but do not hate me if I leave a comment on your article asking you to proofread it carefully.

I do this, not for my benefit, but for yours, and for every writer on this site! We are a team, and teams help each other out. Even though I do not have time to work with each of you one on one here, I still want to see you be the best writers you can possibly be. It is what I love so about editing.

You see, at Fullofknowledge, we don't just publish or decline. Our editorial team works with writers, so that they know where they need to improve, and can learn and grow from the experience. So, if you see me leave a comment about something in your article, please know that I do so with the utmost respect, and with the intention of helping...never hurting.

How you present yourself is important. The words you put forth speak for YOU! Make them the most well chosen words you can find, and you will see your readership grow. Make your subject matter interesting, and they will always come back to see more. Make your articles more readable, and you will have far more readers, and get far more views. Believe me, it is well worth the extra effort!

I have finally decided on the perfect subject matter for my writing here on PWG. I think many of my articles will include helpful tips for my friends in writing! So, stay tuned, if you want to be a better writer, and most important of all...always enjoy what you write, and others will as well!

Coming back to Blogger

It's been four years since I left Blogger and moved to a WordPress site. I used to run a blogging empire from the driver's seat of my taxi, pulling out my MacBook Air to sign on and register a new domain between customers.

 Had a taxidriving blog on Blogger. It's still there, if anybody wants to have a look at Car 58, where are you? where you may read the night thoughts of a night cabbie.

Well, I thought it was entertaining reading at the time. And so did my brother cabbies around the world - there's still one or two blogging happily away if you follow the links to Dublin and New York.

The photo shows Taxi 58, freshly repaired after some bingle or another. Probably a kangaroo on my shift.

I guess I'm back on Blogger, as a member of the Prestigious Writers' Group. I'll see if I can find something to write about that isn't taxidriving. Shouldn't be too hard, there's a world of fascinating things out there!

--Peter

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Solivagus on Bubblews : 2/15/14

My Bubblews Posts for the Day

by solivagus

i'm giving you wood

1. The Start of Day 26 | Nightmares

    Concerning the horrible dream I had prior to waking last night, and an open letter to the ex-boyfriends who were in it.  BOTH of them, for some reason.

2. Where's Solivagus? REN FEST! 

    Concerning how excited I was to get up and out of bed and go to Ren Fest, which as You can see from future postings... didn't go as planned.

3. Review of PicLab App from iTunes Store 

   Not much to this one, it's a review for a fun app.  If you have trouble finding things to use as images for your posts, and you don't want to use something from my blog, this is a good app.

 

4. Sweeten Healthy Eating with Honey and Cinnamon

    Self explanatory but goes into examples of why you should and how I use them.

5. Why do you scare yourself at night?

    You ever wonder?  Well wonder no more, this comprehensive answer will encourage you to put the monster thoughts away.

6. Update on the RenFest Thing.

    When buyer's remorse settles in, what do you do to cope?

7.  Straight People are a Disgrace to Marriage

    I started watching Bridezillas, and that was my first mistake...

8. I Listen to the Music of the Spheres

    This phrase represents the 'inaudible music which is celestial in origin'.  If that's not confusing enough.

9. I'm on YouTube Now!

    And the best part is, I'm clothed.  At least that's what Spartanmom says LOL

10.  A silly song review about Gwen Guthrie

    She sang this amazing song about being a straight up hooker and I applaud her for that.  And I hope one day I can be that proud of being a hooker.

I hope you enjoy my articles, but more importantly, I hope you fricken read them and like them and comment on them, duh.

Solivagus,

Drew

Good Day to Everyone

Have been informed by Jaid about this group. I said I will try to join and see how things will work. It is good to see there are lots of writers who are already contributing to this blog site and it seems like they are all enjoying the company. We are to be honest to one another. I guess we should admit that we really are looking for an Internet site anywhere on the globe that will really help us financially. Of course we are all fond of writing. We cannot guarantee a perfect piece of each content that we are going to write. What important is, just have fun and enjoy the ride.
Have a great day everyone.