Questions tagged [writing]
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Does a writing website promoting commissions count as commercial/do I need an impressum? (Freelancer according to Germany's laws)
According to Germany's (and other countries varying) Telemedia Act(s), commercial websites must include an Impressum. I am freelancing in the writing industry, so I am a freelancer and not a ...
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What's the line of legit vs shady in outsourcing?
Outsourcing can be quite legit. Sometimes a client want to give the entire project to someone else to handle the hiring and quality assurance. But the usual assumption is that the client knows the ...
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How do people navigate contract software article editor/writer work?
I recently had a company reach out asking if I'd be interested in editing and writing programming articles for them (basically dev advocate related). I have 10 years experience as a software engineer. ...
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How to passively generate leads (writing)?
I've created my website to sell services. Now what? There's no way I compete for keywords on platforms like Google Ads, as that's way too expensive. I believe the website has been indexed on both ...
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When Cold Pitching is Too Successful
Last week I sent out cold pitching email to a few websites with three article ideas.
In the past, I've sent out tens of emails and only received one or two responses. This time, I sent out six ...
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How to learn writing REST API's? [closed]
I am 31 years old and graduated university in math with a PhD in 2016. Since then I started a startup on my own.
My goal is to transform into a PHP freelancer who works for a 3-9 months in different ...
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Upwork - How much to charge for an hourly rate if I'm new?
I'm looking to try freelancing to do technical writing so I can pay for college classes over the summer.
I'm a Biomedical Engineering student and have experience writing and explaining technical ...
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How do I notify my Client that my Consultancy Agreement is expiring & also I want them to renew it
I am a Consultant to a company whose HR, PD & other people have not notified me that the agreement is expiring in a few days. I want to send an email to the CEO, HR, PD and do the following:
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How to Showcase Your Work As A Beginner
I'm primarily a freelance writer and I've just got into amateur photography.
In both fields my interests are extremely broad, so I'd like to jump into all areas and see where it takes me.
With ...
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Shall I ask my agency to overturn negative client feedback?
I work for a writing agency. A few days ago, a client asked us to do some work for his website. The client said it was 'proofreading'. I did the work, the agency approved it. It was sent to the client ...
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How to determine the price of writing an iOS curriculum
I am working with a client where I will have to write the curriculum for an iOS course. The curriculum will consists of the flow of the iOS course (4-5 weeks) course and also the assignments. The ...
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Should I ask for a payment for the outline of a course I am writing?
I am currently working as a technical freelance writer for a client. He has asked me to write 10 lengthy articles (~2000 Words each) about a technical topic in a "tutorial" fashion. We agreed on a ...
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Can I write a book from someone's else talk?
I'm a freelance writer and decided to write a book basically by transcribing someone's else talks in a different language.
A person has 50 videos where he talks about certain subjects. Theses videos ...
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Freelance science writer getting unpaid questions from editor
I am employed at a university, and moonlight as a popular science writer. The gig is pretty ok, pays well enough and the pieces are interesting to research and write. I am paid a fixed price on a ...
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How to succeed as a freelance writer? [closed]
I want to be a freelance writer, I've done some research on it and I will be signing up for online classes to learn more about the subject. Is there anybody on here who has succeeded as a freelance ...
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