There are too many projects in my life and I want to focus on what is most important to me.

That is why you can have this blog. All you need to do is convince me that you have the stamina to keep it going.

What’s the benefit for you?

1. Attract Clients
2. Connect with the Writer Community
3. Build Passive Income

It does take work. When I started with this blog, I had a partner (Marshall) who did all the writing. After a great start and posts that excited our readers, he fell off the planet. So I kept things going as best I could. But without a freelance writer who lives and breathes this everyday, the authenticity is missing.

Your Profile

You might be an established freelance writer. If you are successfully bidding for jobs on bidding sites, all the better. (This was the main focus of Marshall’s writing and I have developed a tool that aggregates writing job offers from 446 different websites.)

If you are just starting out, it can be really useful to chronicle your experience, so that others can benefit from that.

What is important is persistence and patience. It would be ideal if you write 3-4 posts a week (that is not a condition on giving this blog away, it is just my experience in getting a blog buzzing). You can expect it to take a few months before the visitor stream is large enough to start monetizing.

What you Get

You get a site that has been up and running for 7 months. Google PageRank is 4, Alexa Rank is 669,481, Technorati Authority is 17. If these numbers do not mean anything to you, don’t worry.

The more important thing is that there are currently between 20 and 30 visitors on the site per day.

It is not that much in itself, but 70% of those visitors come from organic search engine traffic. By increasing the frequency and quality of posts, visitors will increase quickly.

You get 67 already written (and linked to) pages (most of them were written in the first 2 months).

If you do not know much about blogging and how to use that to promote yourself, I’ll show you how to get a course about it for free. And I’ll pass on a great ebook that taught me a lot about making the most of the Internet.

How much is it?

I can imagine two options:

1. You get the database of the blog posts, the customized theme and we transfer the domain name to you. You then need to set up Wordpress (free) on a host of your choice. (You will probably need a webmaster/programmer to help with that).
   If you decide to go that way, I do not want any money.
2. You use the existing installation of Wordpress on my host. I’ll just give you your username and password and you are off. If you decide on that, you need to pay the ongoing costs I have. ($10/year for the domain name, $100/year for the hosting) and you pay my webmaster directly for any updates or changes you want done.

Either way, I’ll continue to host the job aggregator for free and you can offer the job overview on the site as a service to your visitors.

Next steps

If you are interested or have any other questions, get in touch. Before we do the final transfer, I probably want you to write for a month, so that you know you enjoy it. You are absolutely free to write whatever you want, it just has to fit with the theme of furthering or building a freelance writing career. After the initial month, you can decide which of the two options is better for you and it is yours, no strings attached.

Why am I doing this?

I have learned that focus brings better results in life. This website does not fit into my vision and goals and distracts me from what I really want. At the same time I know that it is a great start for someone whose vision it fits. Also, I have put so much time and money into it, it would be sad to see this potential just be wasted.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Have you ever lost work you have written? Here are a few ways to possible get it back.

1) Google Desktop

Google Desktop works very much like Google itself - except it does so on your computer. It searched (very fast) through all your documents, emails, websites that you have visited.

If you have ever used the Windows search function you know how slow that is. Google Desktop works at the speed you know from Google and it looks at all the text, not just names of files.

You can choose whether to show emails, web history or files (and what type of files). You can sort by date or relevance. And there is a thumbnail preview.

So if you ever need to search for something, Google Desktop is for you.

The concern: Google Desktop prepares an index of all your documents and files. Naturally they promise privacy, but I am not sure whether the index is kept on your computer or at Google’s servers.

2) Google Desktop Cache

It gets even better.

You know how you sometimes delete a file and then you notice that you still need it? Naturally the recycle bin is a good place to look, but if it is gone from there…

Google Desktop includes a caching function. That means that there are at least two versions of all your documents. The current one on your computer and the cached one (most probably on Google’s servers).

So even if your current document is deleted, Google Desktop will still find the cached version and you can access it. (This is also really useful, if you have deleted text out of a document and not saved it as a new version.) If you want the deleted text back, chances are you will find it in one of the Google Desktop Cached versions.

3) Cache on the Internet

That same tool also exists for Google on the Internet. But you might know that already. If I need to get the content of websites from even earlier, I use one of my favorite writing tools: The Wayback Machine

It takes snapshots of all the Internet sites at intervals. I think the frequency depends on how often the site changes.

Great tool for research.

4) Backup

As we are on the topic of old versions and backup: Do you backup? How often?

I always hated it. If I was really onto it, I would do it monthly, but usually I did not get to it until much later.

Now I use an online backup system. Each day, my new and changed files are uploaded and kept safe.

Just the feeling of doing the right thing is fantastic.

They have a free version for home users, the business version starts from $4.95.

The drawback: When you delete something from your computer, those files also get deleted in the backup system. But as I’ve shown you above, there are ways around that.

5) No More Spam

You know what, I am going to leave that for tomorrow.

So even though these are not direct writing tools, they are certainly helping me to make my life easier.

If you are after writing tools that help the style of your writing, you might want to check these 50 writing tools.