by Don | Mar 20, 2025 | General Tips
I’ve been a full-time freelance writer for more than 16 years now. Up until recently, whenever someone asked what I do for a living and I told them, they’d usually reply with something like, “Wow, that’s interesting! What kind of writing do you do? Where do your...
by Don | Dec 19, 2024 | General Tips
Depending on who you believe, artificial intelligence (AI) is either going to be the next great technological breakthrough that leads to a higher quality of life for us all … or the end of civilization as we know it. Like most things, the truth probably lies somewhere...
by Don | Nov 19, 2024 | General Tips
I was working for a newsletter publishing company when the internet first came on the scene in the mid-1990s. During one meeting with a large bank headquartered in San Francisco, we all talked about whether we had “gone online” yet. Several of us had tried to, but...
by Don | Jul 18, 2024 | General Tips
The explosion of content marketing in recent years has been a boon for freelance writers like me. The concept of blogging was just starting to take off when I first went full-time freelance 15 years ago. Today, blogs remain a key component of most content marketing...
by Don | Aug 17, 2023 | Content Marketing, General Tips
I moved to Atlanta in 1997 to work as an editor for a publishing company that had a unique editorial model: Most of their articles were submitted by non-professional writers who were experts in a particular field. The obvious benefit was that there was no cost for the...
by Don | Feb 3, 2022 | E-newsletters, General Tips
When I graduated college in 1985 with a degree in Advertising, I had big plans to get a job with an advertising agency and become the next Don Draper. Alas, it turned out the agencies weren’t beating down the doors to hire fresh-out-of-college grads who were very wet...
