Playing with my New Doodly Animation Software
I’ve been playing with my new Doodly software. Haven’t gone beyond the basics yet, though… What do you think?
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Academics, You’re Missing Out on Readers!
I sit here shaking my head, wondering about academics and their frustrating inability to make what they write riveting. It’s no secret to me why the lay public pooh-poohs higher levels of learning: the higher academics go, the less they seem able to communicate what they know in ways that make most readers feel[…]
Most Recent Testimonials
Here are my most recent testimonials from new clients… 10/23/2018 Thank you so much for your truly incredible work. You turned the first milestone around so quick, John and I could hardly believe it. John and I also want to really thank you for re-purposing the write up to be used for the website.[…]
Sales Conversion Strategies to Fill Your Sales Funnel
Sales Conversion Strategies to Fill Your Sales Funnel All of a sudden, I’m getting a flood of requests for my writing services. There have been “feast or famine” conditions like this before, but this recent tsunami is simply unprecedented. Where New Clients Have Found Me I received one over-the-transom request at[…]
Editing Work Has Kept me Busy for Two Weeks
Editing work has kept me busy for the last two weeks. I’ve edited 20 chapters of a novel for one client and an eBook and several articles for another. My editing rates start at $35/hour as long as clients come to me direct; if they come to me from Upwork, I add 20% for[…]
DIY Business Owners’ Guide to Good Copywriting
Guide to Good Copywriting Do-It-Yourself Business Owners, please write the way you talk! I can get turned off by (and abandon) a website faster than you can turn off a faucet. How? When whoever wrote it thinks they need to impress me with their extensive vocabulary and A+ Schoolmarm grammar and English composition[…]
“The PULPS Paid Better than THAT in the 1950’s!” — Writing Rates
I’ve been sharing Upwork project postings on my Facebook pages recently to show my friends and followers how ridiculous buyers are being when it comes to their estimated writing rates. Most buyers seem to be wanting to pay writers peanuts for hours/weeks/months of work and decades of experience. And peanuts are worth more these days[…]
Looking for a Writer?
Why is it that the wealthiest business people–people who charge high rates for their professional services (attorneys, Realtors, physicians, life coaches, business coaches, dentists, veterinarians, etc.)–write project descriptions like this one when looking for a writer: “Looking for a top drawer professional copy (content) (features) writer who will deeply research (topic), come up with[…]
Good Copywriters Don’t Take Your Money, They Make You Money
Good Copywriters Don’t Take Your Money—They Make You Money © 2018 Kris M. Smith I’m frequently astounded when I visit freelance portals on the web where people are looking for copywriters. Most of the seekers seem to want to pay peanuts for evergreen copy and content that will serve them for years. Perhaps[…]
Testimonial from Teryl McLane, Scholastic Book Fairs
Dancing on the ceiling this evening over this testimonial from Teryl McLane of Scholastic Book Fairs…