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Snyde Comments: On the Road
I’m laying in my bed in a small hotel room over 1,000 miles from my sons and wife. Three feet away, in his bed, our SVP of Operations Stefan is trying to get sleep, wearing earplugs so my typing...
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Creating Style Guides: How to Get a Huge Team of Writers on the Same Page
At CopyPress we know that utilizing a large, educated team is the only way to produce a lot of quality product in a short amount of time. We also know that it isn’t easy. Clients often want their...
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Snyde Comments: Who Am I? The Use of Personas in Marketing
Three of my favorite writers, O.Henry, Dr.Seuss, and Pablo Neruda, all used pen names. The utilization of pseudonyms is fairly common throughout the history of published material. The topic of...
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Snyde Comments: CopyPress Culture Book
I am a very active reader, and my library is mostly stocked with business books. Few books have had the impact on me personally that Delivering Happiness has. The reason I am so fond of this book is...
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Weekly Newsletter & An Exclusive Content Sneak Peek
Each Friday, we send out a weekly recap newsletter that showcases some of the most popular blog articles for the previous week, a recent edition of Fresh Pressed, and features an exclusive article to...
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CopyPress Community Launches State of Freelance Writing Survey
A large part of CopyPress is our community of freelance writers and designers. CopyPress Community has over 3,000 members, some of which work for CopyPress on a daily basis creating content for our...
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Creative Spotlight: Lauren Haas, Jamie Lynn Morgan, and Robert Schrader
One of the things I am proudest of at CopyPress is the composition of our creative community. Since 2012, we have gone after a specific type of creative, and we have become very good at it. Our...
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The “Gig Economy,” and Your Rights as a Freelancer
You work hard. You put in long hours until a project is complete. You use all the powers of your mind, education, and experience to exceed expectations. Why? Because you are driven. And more...
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Creative Spotlight: 5 Cardinal Sins of Freelance Writing
Eight years ago, I left my last office job and decided to make freelance writing my full-time gig. My first jobs paid less than a tenth of what my top projects earn now, and there were more than a few...
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Creative Spotlight: How to Write a Cool Travel Blog for a City
So you’ve picked up a new assignment and are now tasked with writing a travel blog for a city. However, one minor problem exists. You’ve never been there! As a content writer for hire, you need to come...
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Creative Spotlight: Beating Writer’s Block
It happens to the best of us — you sit down to write and realize fifteen minutes later that all you’ve done is stare at a blank screen. In many ways, writer’s block is like hiccups. Everyone gets them...
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Creative Spotlight: How to Build Authority as an Online Writer
Building authority as an online writer isn’t as simple as writing the piece, hitting the publish button, and waiting for readers to arrive. While it takes some work to build, online authority is very...
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Creative Spotlight: Avoid These Common Travel Writer Mistakes
Getting travel writing published isn’t easy. You may have a story to tell, but it takes more than just a great idea for a publication to accept your submission. You not only need to be a proficient...
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Creative Spotlight: Why Freelancers Need More Than One Type of Gig
If you’re new to the life of a freelancer, you may not know what those of us who’ve been doing it for a while know. The freelance life can be “feast or famine.” When the work is rolling in, you barely...
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Creative Spotlight: 6 Time Management Tips for Beginner Freelance Writers
When you start a freelance writing career, your first concern might be getting enough work to support yourself, or making the right connections to get better paying jobs. However, if you keep producing...
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Creative Spotlight: How to Create Novel Content in an Information-Saturated...
Tired of seeing the same old thing on your Facebook feed? So are our readers. As copywriters, it can be difficult to craft creative, new content when the web is already saturated with information, much...
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Creative Spotlight: 5 Common Mistakes by Freelance Writers
Being a freelance writer is a lot of fun, but it also takes work. You should make sure your writing is excellent to get more jobs and better rates. You’ll also need to manage your own business, even if...
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Creative Spotlight: Full Circle Copy: How to Appeal to New and Repeat Customers
In business, it’s often said that drawing in new customers is more challenging than keeping current ones. This idea is applied to many things, including copywriting and marketing. Often, marketing is...
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Creative Spotlight: The Best Part of Freelancing: Getting Paid to Learn
Do you know everything? I don’t, but there’s nothing I’m afraid to write about. Sure, we all have our specialties. In college I studied literature and writing with a focus on poetry. Naturally, the...
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Creative Spotlight: The Top 4 Grammar Mistakes You’ll See Online
Grammar mistakes happen to the best of us, but they can have a negative impact on the way others perceive us. Even if you’re not a self-proclaimed grammar geek, it’s still important to check your...
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Creative Spotlight: 7 Tips For Dealing With Freelance Loneliness
If you’ve been a freelance writer for any amount of time, you already know it’s a lonely profession. It’s not something you usually do as part of a team. No, it’s just you and that ever present blank...
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Creative Spotlight: 5 Surefire Ways to Make Money Writing
So, you want to write for a living. Why not? You can be your own boss, travel the world, and make your office a beach chair where your only worry is spilling your adult beverage onto your laptop. Well,...
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Creative Spotlight: 5 Content Strategies To Keep Your Audience Engaged
If you are the author of a blog or you’re running your own online business, audience engagement is a vital component of effective content marketing. Keeping your audience engaged is something that...
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Creative Spotlight: Hook, Line, and Sinker: How to Effectively Introduce Your...
“It was a pleasure to burn.” – “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – “1984” by George Orwell “It was the best of times. It was...
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Creative Spotlight: 6 Ways to Market Yourself as a Freelance Writer
Writers, by our very nature, tend to be slightly introverted. We work alone for hours at a time, often in near silence. The solitude we create for ourselves gives us the space to think and string words...
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Creative Spotlight: 5 Writing Tools to Maximize the Impact of Your Content
Some people might like to think that writing happens organically. It sure would be nice if we could just sit down in front of the blank page and get paid for whatever pours from our minds. Sadly, being...
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Creative Spotlight: Why Copywriting Will Make You More Creative
If you’ve ever thought about getting into the copywriting world, but are worried that it might be creatively dry, it’s time to reconsider that idea. Many authors or other creative writers fear that...
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Community Spotlight: How to Stay Professional in a Faceless Society
Carrying on conversations via text on a screen can sometimes lead to inappropriate communication with coworkers. Following these simple tips ensure your feelance job offerings don’t dwindle because of...
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Creative Spotlight: How to Fact Check Like a Pro
The media is currently engaged in a cycle of self-flagellation caused by political coverage and social media’s propensity to propagate. Whether you didn’t bother to vote or mainlined sites like...
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Community Spotlight: Why Your Writing Samples Can Put You Ahead of the...
Working as a freelance writer can be a lucrative and financially satisfying career, but only if you’re able to attract and retain clients interested in what you have to share. While your resume and...
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Creative Spotlight: How to Build a Fast Track Record as a Freelancer
Competition for freelance work is fierce. Whenever a quality job posts, you may face hundreds of applicants for the position. How can you possibly convince clients to choose you over someone with...
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Creative Spotlight: 9 Things That Will Sabotage Your Freelance Business
A lot of writers believe they can write when the inspiration moves them. They have difficulty adhering to deadlines and shy away from agreeing to due dates. If you’re thinking about joining the 53...
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Creative Spotlight: How to Think Like a Content Marketer When You’re Really a...
If you’re a freelance writer, you want to know The Secret. You’re in good company. To be sure, there are over 4 million freelance writers in the United States alone, and we’d all like to make more...
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Creative Spotlight: The Art of Punctuation
Few pet peeves are more prevalent than grammar Nazism. Whether you’re a writer, editor, or neither, you’ve likely cringed at a social media post that said “your” when “you’re” was the correct choice....
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Creative Spotlight: How to Stay Disciplined Working at Home
Header Image via Flickr by Ray_LAC Dreaming of becoming your own boss? Of course you are. Freelancers who work at home can take meetings in their pajamas and lunch in their kitchens, not to mention...
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Creative Spotlight: Should You Really Only Write What You Know?
Anyone who has written or studied writing for a while likely knows the classic advice: “Write what you know.” It’s most often said about creative writing, and is used to tell the writer to use current...
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Tips for Getting Started as a Freelance Writer
Working as a freelance writer has become one of hottest careers available for people looking for a non-traditional job away from the everyday stress of working for a brick and mortar establishment....
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Creative Spotlight: Your Freelance Horoscope for 2017
You see those horoscope forecasts that tell you what your year looks like based on what astrological sign you were born under. Normally, you’d pass them up, but think again. Could these horoscopes make...
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Community Spotlight: Debunking the Myth: Freelance Writers are Mind Readers
Freelance writing as a career choice can be both fulfilling and stressful. The two emotions go together when writers face the same situations every day. Writers refer one of those situations as “mind...
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Renegotiating Freelance Rates for 2017
Ok, it’s time for a check-in. February has come and gone. How’re you doing on your 2017 resolutions? Each year, many creatives decide that their resolution is to raise their freelance rates. Then they...
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Why Work-at-Home Moms Make for Great Freelancers
Work-at-home moms often get overlooked for freelance jobs. People mistakenly think they are too distracted, not serious enough, or incapable of doing more than cooing at their babies. The truth is...
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Staying Professional and Mature While Working from Home
Your editor just asked you to change your great article into a lousy one. A tiny error in a bank transfer is delaying your order for at least a week. Your promising freelance client inexplicably went...
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Savage Content, Fam: Is Slang Appropriate in Content Marketing?
Using slang comes so easily to young people, and if that’s how they like to communicate, why shouldn’t brands use it, too? The question is complicated, because lots of brands do use slang with mixed...
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7 Things a Freelancer Wonders about a Project
When you hire a content creator, you have questions about the process. It’s only natural. The same is true of freelancers that you hire. The person on the other end of the buyer/seller dynamic, the...
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How to Mentally Reset and Improve Productivity
When you’re feeling stressed and overwhelmed, it’s hard to get motivated and to produce quality results. Whether you’re trying to complete a big task or you need to think creatively to solve a problem,...
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The Importance of Content Communities
A content community is, in essence, a network of people who discuss a particular industry and key issues or developments in that industry. Any business or brand that consistently curates and shares...
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10 Ways to Create Content During a Vacation
You’ve worked hard to build your website from the ground up. The number of visitors grows everyday, and engagement across your social media platforms looks good. After all the hours tweaking and...
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5 Secrets to Discovering Customer Pain Points
Many businesses create a product by discovering a need or a hole in the market and filling it with a product. That works wonderfully for inventing a new product or service, or improving upon existing...
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8 College Majors That Make You a Great Content Writer
Some people know what they’ve wanted to do with their lives since they were young, but for others, the choice isn’t so obvious. To exacerbate the problem, you’re taxed with choosing what you want to do...
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4 Advantages Introverts Have in Content Marketing
An introvert, as opposed to extrovert, is someone who is more suited to being alone or in one-on-one social engagements, and who finds communicating with large numbers of people draining and difficult....
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