Melissa asks: “I’ve noticed that most writers’ websites include a headshot or similar photo for ‘branding.’ I haven’t put a headshot on my website yet because I am only 22 (graduated from college last spring a year early) and I worry that my obvious youth would prejudice editors against me (especially since most of my …
Dec 31, 2006 Advice, You Ask, We Answer
This may sound a little odd, but one of my favorite times of the year is the week AFTER Christmas! No, I’m not a scrooge. I really do love the holidays, but by the time I’ve sung my last Fa, La, La, La, La I’m worn out. My family is in vacation mode so I take a few …
Dec 29, 2006 RW Makeover
Many of the questions the students of my 8-week e-course ask me stem from the fear of not getting everything just right. “What if I say this and the editor gets offended?” “What if I miss a typo?” “What if I read a year’s worth of back issues and it turns out the magazine ran …
Dec 27, 2006 Advice, Observations, Self improvement
I wrote this article a few years ago as part of a book proposal that never flew; I hated to see it sitting on my hard drive unused and unloved, so I breathed new life into an old article by updating it for 2007. [lf]
A potential client asks for your card. What do you do?
A. …
Dec 27, 2006 Advice, Cool products, Cool tools
Stephanie Chandler is the author of From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur: Make Money with Books, eBooks, and Information Products (John Wiley & Sons, December 2006). We spoke with Stephanie about how freelancers can make more money as infopreneurs.
Can you tell us a bit about your experiences as an infopreneur?
It all began when I was writing my …
Dec 20, 2006 Writer Q&A
