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	<description>Freelancing Writing With A Dash Of Wit &#38; A Sprinkle Of SEO</description>
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		<title>This Show Has Ended.</title>
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Thank you one and all for visiting this blog, some of you who are fans with a handful I can truly call a friend.
I decided to close down this blog as I have said all that I can say regarding freelancing and article writing, choosing to concentrate on specific niche blogging instead. This blog will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/05/21/this-show-has-ended/</link>
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		<title>The Hidden Value Of Your Online Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve decided to shelve my site for awhile because the new job is taking up all of my time. I&#8217;m even considering deleting most of my pages and I may not renew my domain.&#8221;

When I learned that a friend was planning to shutter his website, I wasn&#8217;t too surprised. He launched his first site in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/05/16/the-hidden-value-of-your-online-work/</link>
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		<title>So, You Want To Be A Freelancer?</title>
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I try to answer most of my emails quickly and directly, but that isn&#8217;t always the case. There are times when I&#8217;m under a deadline or an emergency pops up and I&#8217;m just not able to tackle an inquiry immediately.
Sometimes, I&#8217;ll simply tweak the person&#8217;s question and post it to this blog as part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/05/14/so-you-want-to-be-a-freelancer/</link>
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		<title>The Article Writer Mailbag, Take 16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q. I am wondering if it would benefit me to join a writers association. Specifically, I think that connecting with other writers would advance my career and raise my visibility. What are your thoughts?
A. I haven&#8217;t joined a writers guild or association, but I&#8217;m not opposed to them. Therefore, I cannot share my personal experience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/05/12/the-article-writer-mailbag-take-16/</link>
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		<title>Exit Entrecard, Stage Left</title>
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After just over one month of doing the &#8220;Entrecard thing&#8221; I have decided to pull the plug.
All right, let me rephrase my statement: After using Entrecard for the past five weeks on five different blogs, I removed the Big E&#8217;s widget from the sidebar of this blog and on my automotive blog. I&#8217;m still running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/05/09/exit-entrecard-stage-left/</link>
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		<title>Citizendium Invites You To Their Write-A-Thon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been contributing articles and/or editing for Wikipedia since last July, by helping expand articles, providing relevant citable sources, and responding to the occasional call for help. Time isn&#8217;t on my side when it comes to editing for free, but there are those times when a Wikipedia diversion provides a needed boost for the editor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/05/07/citizendium-invites-you-to-their-write-a-thon/</link>
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		<title>100% Of My Business Is Derived Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reviewing my various projects lately including ongoing contract work and came to a startling realization: every client I have at the moment is someone who found me online. Not simply people whom I connected with thanks to the internet, but people who found me through this website.
Three Years Later&#8230;Success!
It was three years ago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/05/05/100-of-my-business-is-derived-online/</link>
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		<title>Handling Damaging Information &#8212; Include It Or Shelve It?</title>
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I&#8217;m not a professional researcher, but as a writer I do research various topics to help form the backbone for many of my articles. Oftentimes, I&#8217;ll come across something online worth quoting or get information directly from a source (e.g., a press release) and use that as the basis for what I write.
Occasionally, I&#8217;ll find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/05/02/handling-damaging-information-include-it-or-shelve-it/</link>
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		<title>PageRank &#038; Alexa &#038; Backlinks &#8212; Oh My!</title>
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Just for giggles, I enjoy hanging out at various webmaster forums including Digital Point where I can get a sense for what so many people are thinking. That place is frequently rife with rumors as members try to get into the colossal mind of Google, Alexa, and other internet measuring devices to see how they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/04/30/pagerank-alexa-backlinks-oh-my/</link>
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		<title>Satisfaction Guaranteed&#8230;Maybe Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer at Catalyst Blogger had a provocative post (at least it provoked me to write this post) mentioning that she has been toying with the idea of offering some sort of guarantee for her work. I won&#8217;t explain each of the options she suggested, but I immediately shook my head in disagreement when I began [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thearticlewriter.com/blog/2008/04/28/satisfaction-guaranteedmaybe-not/</link>
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