My Technical and Grant Writing Blog

So I am doing the 30 Day Challenge.
It is one of the inspirations for going freelance. Well to actually take the plunge into it.
So I am on Day 15 of the challenge. Not following it precisely. But taking what works for me.
So last night I did my Squidoo page. Tonight a Hubpages page. I am about done with the marketing that way side of life. Time to make more content and actively look for clients.
That is about as much linking, ok one more.
I am working on the page holding my hobby related created free content. It is sitting here right now.

Talk to you all later.

So today I got a hit on one Get a Freelancer bid I had made. The potential client wanted a short article written as a test sample. Perfectly reasonable in my mind.
So in the ten (10) or so minutes it took me to pen the 351 words on the topic of choice something I had learned years ago working in administrative capacities at an Ad Agency, then in Marketing Departments in a then Fortune 500 company, came back to mind. I cut it from the article, it was too good to not keep for myself.
Here is what I had written, then kept

'It has been shown that on an average it takes seventeen exposures to a single television commercial before the average American consumer will retain knowledge of that commercial. Does not mean that after seventeen exposures the watcher will use the product or service, it just means it takes that much to impact on the conscious level.'

I know that is taught somewhere in marketing or advertising classes. My knowledge is all experiential. But it bears repeating here.
If indeed it does take a minimum of 17 times passed before your eyes, this can easily be adapted to how to use the Internet to market yourself. Which is what I am frankly doing. Using the Internet to market my skills in writing so I can find more work to improve my financial standing, while doing what I love and am meant to do as well.

So in that vein I went and made a Squidoo Lens. Here is the link to my page over there.

Just one more way to work on getting my name out there for others to find.
Have a good night, more soon.
Frequent Content is King

Welcome to my Consulting and Writing Site
Good Day and Welcome,

This is a small piece of the Infinite Web, and I claim it for my own.
Here and on a few other linked sites I will be presenting my writing and talents for freelance consulting in creative, technical, and grant writing, as well as links to my own hobby related publications once they are available for print.

Writing and Get A Freelancer
I am signed up over at Get A Freelancer, Elance, SoloGig, few other spots it seems like.
So everyday I get multiple emails in my Writing category.
Budgets are $30 to $150
The buyer states the rate is a Dollar an Article (500 Words), which is high as an average over there.
So that equates to a Penny every 5 Words
Back in High School, I graduated in '81, the word rate for magazines was like 2 Cents a Word.
So for quality articles, no plagiarism, etc, I can expect to make
1 Penny per 5 Words compared to 2 Pennies per 1 Word = 10 Cents per 5 Words.
So one tenth 1/10 of what I dreamt of making as a writer 27 some years ago.

So how does that make us writers feel. This cannot help out the overall industry.
Any comments?

Over here
http://elections.foxnews.com/states_map/index.html
Is where you can at least find something about who I voted for
Yes for the 3rd election in a row I darkened the circle in and voted for Ralph Nader.

Someday there will be a choice.