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Michael Stover
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Feb 20

How to Smash Through Your Freelance Ceiling for Greater Success

I backed into freelance writing after a previous career imploded and left my family jobless and homeless. Within a few years, I grew a part-time copywriting gig into a full-time income that replaced a temporary career in education. Before long, I was earning better money but working longer hours. I…

Freelance Writing

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How to Smash Through Your Freelance Ceiling for Greater Success
How to Smash Through Your Freelance Ceiling for Greater Success
Freelance Writing

5 min read


Oct 17, 2022

Optimizing Your Freelancing Business with Subcontractors

Much has been written about the freelance life. In fact, most freelancers I know were initially attracted to freelancing because of the potential for more free time, flexibility, and financial growth opportunities. The sad fact is, too many freelancers don’t realize the best of the freelancing life. How would you…

Freelancing

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Optimizing Your Freelancing Business with Subcontractors
Optimizing Your Freelancing Business with Subcontractors
Freelancing

4 min read


Aug 5, 2022

The All-Time Best Ways to Kill Your Freelancing Business

I surprised you, right? The beginning of that title caught your eye — “The All-Time Best…” what??? Judging from my past writings you likely expected a new listing of strategic moves to enhance your freelancing business. Or how to build a successful freelance business. But these homicidal truths are just…

Freelancing

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The All-Time Best Ways to Kill Your Freelancing Business
The All-Time Best Ways to Kill Your Freelancing Business
Freelancing

6 min read


Jul 9, 2022

A Guide to Writing Persuasive Blog Posts

Many content marketing strategies include regular blog posts on topics relating to the company’s industry. These blogs most often provide valuable information while seeking to persuade the reader to make a decision. Persuasion is both art and science. In my freelance copywriting business, I write and edit dozens of business…

Blogs And Blogging

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A Guide to Writing Persuasive Blog Posts
A Guide to Writing Persuasive Blog Posts
Blogs And Blogging

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Jun 6, 2022

10 Simple Tips to Make You a Better Writer

All of us cannot be Clive Cussler, W.E.B. Griffin, Tom Clancy, J.K. Rowling, or Ernest Hemingway (or, insert your favorite authors here). But we all can work to improve our writing skills. Whether you write copy professionally for marketing firms, produce written reports for work, or just communicate with your…

Writer

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10 Simple Tips to Make You a Better Writer
10 Simple Tips to Make You a Better Writer
Writer

6 min read


May 10, 2022

Welcome to the ‘New’ Mainstream Gig Economy

Remember when the “Gig Economy” was viewed with suspicion, even revulsion, by many who clung to life in the corporate world? Big business and the alleged security it provided made everyday workers look down their noses at those entrepreneurs of the early days who dared to reach toward something new. …

Freelancing

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Welcome to the ‘New’ Mainstream Gig Economy
Welcome to the ‘New’ Mainstream Gig Economy
Freelancing

6 min read


Apr 3, 2022

Entrepreneurs — Planning the Escape from Your Dead-End Job

What’s stopping you from just walking out of your dead-end job to start your own business? It’s likely to be one of two things: common sense or integrity. Both are very valuable commodities; unless they prevent you from building the life and career of your dreams. Common Sense and Integrity Common sense says that…

Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurs — Planning the Escape from Your Dead-End Job
Entrepreneurs — Planning the Escape from Your Dead-End Job
Entrepreneurship

4 min read


Mar 6, 2022

5 Copywriting Essentials from a Successful Writer that Anyone Can Learn

Copywriting to many seems this elusive, difficult practice that only a few chosen have mastered. That is sheer nonsense! These five basic truths can make anyone a successful copywriter — and you only need middle-school-level writing skills to master them! I’ve been making a comfortable living as a full-time freelance…

Copywriting

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5 Copywriting Essentials from a Successful Writer that Anyone Can Learn
5 Copywriting Essentials from a Successful Writer that Anyone Can Learn
Copywriting

7 min read


Dec 23, 2021

Another Big Step

On this date eight years ago, my family and I were homeless. Today, we just finished closing on the purchase of a home. On this date eight years ago, my family and I were homeless. Today, we just finished closing on the purchase of a home. That’s quite a bit…

Freelancing

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Another Big Step
Another Big Step
Freelancing

5 min read


Nov 27, 2021

Are You Ready to Start Ignoring Google?

The digital marketing world has bowed down before Google for too long. Every new change in algorithm or ranking factors generated a whirlwind of SEO changes and new marketing approaches as every marketer tried to use the latest changes to get on top of page one. Can we just stop…

SEO

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Are You Ready to Start Ignoring Google?
Are You Ready to Start Ignoring Google?
SEO

5 min read

Michael Stover

Michael Stover

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Author, talented writer, and exacting editor. Learn more at http://michaeldstover.com. Buy me a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/michaeldstover

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