An Alternative to Traditional Freelance Work
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The Snow is But a Memory
Can you believe we might not have a white Christmas this year? We did have a little snow last week, and my kids went crazy:Here's hoping for just a small amount of the cold stuff -- it's our children's wish!
SPIDERS!
If you hate spiders (like me), this post will either delight or disgust you.We awoke a week or so ago to find the entire world was covered in spider webs. My children discovered that their trikes and sandbox and our cars and even the garden was coated with a milky white webbing that seemed surreal and unlikely. On top of these webs were hundreds of the tiniest baby spiders I had ever seen. They were everywhere!
5 Tips to Help You Freelance through Floods, Tornadoes and Other Natural Disasters
The following is a guest post from a good colleague, Thursday Bram.
I’ve freelanced through blizzards, brush fires, the first five seconds of an earthquake and a few other natural disasters. I haven’t worked through a hurricane yet, but it’s just a matter of time.
Getting the work done at those times is generally surprisingly easy — but the mechanics of actually handling clients and other details can be a big problem. Losing power means something very different when you live in the heart of a big city and when you live out where a county is the main authority. At a minimum, it can mean a couple of days difference in how quickly your power is restored. Internet access can be similarly problematic right after a natural disaster.
Clients can be fairly easy to deal with when there’s such problems, provided you can keep them updated. That means that setting up plans ahead of time can be crucial. These tips have helped me keep my client list intact through everything Mother Nature has thrown at me so far — and when that hurricane comes, I’ll be ready for it.
Fall Happenings on the Knerl Farm
It's fall! We are finally back to (somewhat) normal after our flooding scare. While we are still without a few items (like bedroom furniture and a few larger farm equipment pieces), we have settled back into a normal routine.This autumn, some things are just like every year. But some things are not.
The kids are enjoying the outdoors. This is typical.
A Carrot-Pickin' Injury
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| Can you pick out the perp from the line up? |
I (nearly) passed out on my bathroom floor yesterday. The farmer was holding my hand above my head, examining the chunk of flesh or foreign matter that was protruding from my finger and causing the blood to drip down my hand.
Should You Be Guest Posting?
As a freelancer, I get quite a few requests to write guest posts. Whether I do it under my own name, or whether I ghostwrite for someone else, I can usually provide these posts for 80% of my regular fee for writing a 400-word article. When times are lean, I will do them.
But what is the benefit for these companies who hire me to write a guest post? Especially when the sites they are posting at don't pay them any money? Well, there is, of course, the SEO value. (Posting at XYZ site with a Page Rank of 6 will definitely juice up your backlink.) But is there a value beyond that? Why would a company want backlinks from a site with a Page Rank of 2 or 3?
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