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Thursday, June 5th, 2008I was sitting in Starbucks chatting with a bunch of designers straight out of design school abaout logos last night. Along the way, we discussed the latest Jimmy Choos, the current economy crisis, rising gas prices, etc. But the amazing thing that tickled me pink was the fact that every time we mentioned something new, we would mention something about ‘googling it’. Do know of any Greek gods? Google it. Do you have pasta recipes? Google it. Do you know how to fix a broken toe nail? Google it.
You get the picture.
It nothing new. We’ve all accepted the fact that ‘google’ is now usable as a verb, as with a noun, not yet an adjective.
In the Internet business and online promotion world, businesses won’t survive for very long if they don’t have a widespread marketing campaign. Well, they don’t have to rank very high for keywords that is highly competed for but at the very least, they should make an effort to work Google for important ‘local’ keywords.
For example, if you can’t get to the top of Google with your content marketing campaign for ‘real estate’, try ‘Canada real estate’. If you can’t get to the top for ‘ladies handbag’, try ‘NY ladies handbag’…even then I think you might need to narrow down the NY bit because I think every single moving human being in NY either have their own website or blog or is somewhat in touch with the search engine marketing business. Google-ing is what they do best.
Well, that my bit today for search engine marketing and article writing.
Oh, I have something to say about writing and all of that stuff, nothing jazzy but I couldn’t quite agree with how some people are actually trying to market their stuff online via article marketing. It really miffed me off. But it’s their style, not mine and I will keep my teeth out of their shoulder.
–Marsha–
Don’t listen to your teachers if you want to write for a living
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I remember having my English teacher as my favorite teacher in the world when I was in primary school. We had a love-hate relationship back then but it was her, I remember vividly, who unleashed my passion for writing. We had a love-hate relationship because I had more than a dozen books hidden in my drawers confiscated by her and because she caught me reading while she was teaching! Anyway, one day, she asked us all to write about an exciting day we had on the way to school….which most of us most probably didn’t have! I was having a particularly bad day that day but managed to churn out a nice piece of composition for her using my imagination. Thinking back about it, I wrote that piece a little differently that day. Because I was frustrated, I ditched everything she thought me.
I wasn’t thinking about grammar or how suitable or ‘true’ the situation was. While the rest of the kids wrote about saving cats from trees, uncles falling down, feeling sick on the way to school or finding a coin on the street, I wrote about a robbery…..which wasn’t true at all, of course! But that composition won me praises from my favorite teacher in the world and admiration from the rest of the class. (more…)
Articles By The Bunch – Content is not to be bought like bananas
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008I started my writing career on freelance with sites like www.getafreelancer.com. If eBay was the site people went to for cheap stuff, then www.getafreelancer.com is the site people went to for cheap services. That’s how started my career as a freelance writer….producing really cheap writing materials. There was one time I wrote 100-word articles for about less than $1 a pop! No seriously. But the competition on the freelance writing world is tough…being that there are a lot of adequate writers in this world with a little bit of talent, who can whip out a decent article with a decent number of words, laced with keywords (splattered is more the word) in this world. Particularly countries like India where there are, admittedly, more talents than others….really cheap ones.
I’ve long abandoned my account with Getafreelancer because I started to have a client base and I focused more on quality these days. But I got curious, one day, and I went back in and took a look at the kind of projects that were being posted in there. And once again, I was sucked into a black hole….a vortex of cheap writing. It’s a wet market of cheap services….still. You can see it from the way people are focused on speed and cost.
For example;
“I need 50 articles with 500 words with keywords. More work to come. If good, will assign more projects regularly. Budget is $1 each article”
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Revisions…the inevitable process of writing
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008by Marsha Maung
Look a writer in the eye and ask them if they have ever succeeded in coming up with the perfect piece of writing first off without needing to revise or edit the article…and watch them cringe! Now, if you know an AUTHOR who is established and ask them how much they appreciate their proofreader and editor and watch them gush! That’s how tedious it is to write a nice piece of article or book and how repetitive the chore can become. I sometimes regard writing with a little bit of distaste.
Oh, hang on a minute. Technically, I don’t REALLY hate writing all that much. I still believe I was born to write….because I don’t remember when it was I started writing stuff….on used receipts, on toilet papers, on the table, on artblocks, on those small tiny notebooks. I think my ‘stories’ were amusing to my parents…which probably explains why they found my blocks of scribblings on the back of the refrigerator ‘forgiveable’. BUT here’s the thing, what I hate is not the ‘writing’ itself because I sit down and bang on the keyboard as words, ideas and the story unwinds inside my head and heart. I just keep banging on the keys until either one of my kids scream or when the idea-train stops chugging. That’s the easy part.
A better freelance writer for 2008
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Can you believe it? Can you friggin believe it?? It’s 2008 already….ALREADY! I mean, I can remember the first time I started writing for a living…the first jump I made into the freelance online writing career…and here I am….2008. Eight years and counting. Shit!
For freelancers, whether you’re a freelance cook, freelance singer, freelance striptease dancer, or freelance writer like me, it’s time to take a look at what we have done through the whole year of 2007. For me, it’s not always about looking forward and making resolutions. I have always believed that in order to make me a better freelance writer for 2008, I need to look back first. Take a look at all the things that I have done the past 365 days, the mistakes I’ve done, the things I didn’t do, the things I should’ve done and all the mistakes in all the articles I’ve done (I am hoping there aren’t too many) and turn them into positive things for 2008. (more…)