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		<title>By: 82 Essential Blogging Tips, Tricks and Resources &#124; Hi, I'm Grace Smith</title>
		<link>http://freelanceswitch.com/general/freelancers-heres-why-you-need-a-blog/#comment-36481</link>
		<dc:creator>82 Essential Blogging Tips, Tricks and Resources &#124; Hi, I'm Grace Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: 28 Must Read Articles For Growing Your Freelance Design Business &#124; The Design Cubicle</title>
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		<dc:creator>28 Must Read Articles For Growing Your Freelance Design Business &#124; The Design Cubicle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Brian</title>
		<link>http://freelanceswitch.com/general/freelancers-heres-why-you-need-a-blog/#comment-35174</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While I agree that most of this article is spot on, I disagree about using blogspot or a wordpress.com blog. I think if you are a serious designer, it looks much better to have your own self hosted blog—especially if you&#039;re a web designer.

I have just started a new self hosted blog and I&#039;m still trying to figure out what kind of content I want to present. I want to try to be informative for non-designers and helpful to designers. I think the biggest hurdle is finding the time for it while still doing design work.

Well, anyway, nice article.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I agree that most of this article is spot on, I disagree about using blogspot or a wordpress.com blog. I think if you are a serious designer, it looks much better to have your own self hosted blog—especially if you&#8217;re a web designer.</p>
<p>I have just started a new self hosted blog and I&#8217;m still trying to figure out what kind of content I want to present. I want to try to be informative for non-designers and helpful to designers. I think the biggest hurdle is finding the time for it while still doing design work.</p>
<p>Well, anyway, nice article.</p>
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		<title>By: 60 Helpful Blog Posts for Freelance Writers and Bloggers&#160;&#124;&#160;Freelance Writing Jobs and Other Stuff</title>
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		<dc:creator>60 Helpful Blog Posts for Freelance Writers and Bloggers&#160;&#124;&#160;Freelance Writing Jobs and Other Stuff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Luke</title>
		<link>http://freelanceswitch.com/general/freelancers-heres-why-you-need-a-blog/#comment-30257</link>
		<dc:creator>Luke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>had a blog on my portfolio site a while back, but never committed to it and removed it pretty quickly. I think that&#039;s the problem; if you&#039;re going to put any time at all into a blog, you need to make sure that time is worth spending and you start out focussed on exactly what you want to achieve.

I certainly need to rethink who my audience is, in terms of writing content that is actually of use and solves my clients problems/answers questions they may have - it&#039;s a valuable resource for them then, rather than a list of my favourite Photoshop techniques or whatever, which has no meaning/value to clients and belongs more on a personal blog. i think you can mix it up once in a while though, maybe to write about something great you&#039;ve discovered which demonstrates enthusiasm and gives you the chance to inject some of that all important personality.

i have no idea why anyone would use a .wordpress blog when it&#039;s so simple to set up under your own domain, it looks like a lack of effort.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>had a blog on my portfolio site a while back, but never committed to it and removed it pretty quickly. I think that&#8217;s the problem; if you&#8217;re going to put any time at all into a blog, you need to make sure that time is worth spending and you start out focussed on exactly what you want to achieve.</p>
<p>I certainly need to rethink who my audience is, in terms of writing content that is actually of use and solves my clients problems/answers questions they may have &#8211; it&#8217;s a valuable resource for them then, rather than a list of my favourite Photoshop techniques or whatever, which has no meaning/value to clients and belongs more on a personal blog. i think you can mix it up once in a while though, maybe to write about something great you&#8217;ve discovered which demonstrates enthusiasm and gives you the chance to inject some of that all important personality.</p>
<p>i have no idea why anyone would use a .wordpress blog when it&#8217;s so simple to set up under your own domain, it looks like a lack of effort.</p>
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		<title>By: Erin</title>
		<link>http://freelanceswitch.com/general/freelancers-heres-why-you-need-a-blog/#comment-30173</link>
		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oops - here&#039;s the link:
http://www.rollickguides.com/guides/info/rollicktips.htm</description>
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<a href="http://www.rollickguides.com/guides/info/rollicktips.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.rollickguides.com/guides/info/rollicktips.htm</a></p>
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		<title>By: Erin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Erin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a cool way to drive traffic to your blog.  It&#039;s a site about leisure activities that lets you post tips and include a link back to your blog.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a cool way to drive traffic to your blog.  It&#8217;s a site about leisure activities that lets you post tips and include a link back to your blog.</p>
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		<title>By: We finally created a blog&#8230; at The MindWarp Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>We finally created a blog&#8230; at The MindWarp Blog</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] my current ideas and thoughts. So then I was reading some articles online and stumbled across this: Free Lancers: Why You Need a Blog. The article didn&#8217;t really convince me, but it did have a quick link to this site. I [...]</description>
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		<title>By: &#187; It&#8217;s my birthday and I&#8217;ll blog if I want to&#8230; Blogging Translator: Translation and Linguistics</title>
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		<dc:creator>&#187; It&#8217;s my birthday and I&#8217;ll blog if I want to&#8230; Blogging Translator: Translation and Linguistics</dc:creator>
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