The Smutlancers

Author: Kayla Lords

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Smutlancer Life

How to Handle the Mistakes You WILL Make as a Smutlancer

As human beings on planet Earth, there’s one truism none of us can ever escape — we all make mistakes. I say this as a perfectionist who feels physical pain at the mere thought of fucking something up. Mistakes take many forms: regrettable business partnerships, poorly built websites, crap content, misspeaking, being factually incorrect, not thinking of the people around us. And that’s just the short list. Making mistakes is universal. It’s how we handle them that determines who we are — or who we want to be. Creating content, sharing information, educating others, and generally being a person in...

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Episodes / Sex Bloggers/Sex Toy Reviewers

An Introduction to the Gutenberg Editor

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For all things website and tech related, there’s really only one place to go — the dynamic duo of Molly Moore and Michael Knight. In this week’s episode they discuss the new(ish) Gutenberg editor for Wordpress. For those of us who are clinging to the Classic editor in WP, our time is drawing to a close.

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Freelancers / Smutlancer Life

How I Organize My Work Day | Smutlancer Process

Finding the right process helps me get work done, stay efficient, and not feel like I’m spinning my wheels. It lets me get more done in a day than I otherwise might — without using extra energy or sitting in front of a screen for hours upon hours. With that in mind — and because a few people have asked me to talk about it — let’s dive into my process for organizing my work day.

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Episodes

The Power of a Morning Routine

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Essentially, this is about the routine you create to get yourself ready to work. Ready to create; ready to sit down and get things done. Yours doesn’t need to look like mine, but making your own may be worth the effort, especially if it helps you achieve your goals and get more done.

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Smutlancer Life

My Word for 2020 is Progress

Progress means forward movement. It might be slow, and it might be circular at times, but it means I’m getting somewhere. It doesn’t look perfect. I’m not on a timeline.

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We Answer Your Questions: January 2020 Mailbag

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In this month’s mailbag episode, we answered two questions received in December that many of us want to know more about — negotiations and how to make our sites work more efficiently (in search, especially) when we have limited time.

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Income Report

Smutlancer Monthly Income Report: December 2019 and Year-End Review

Here we are. The end of one year, and the start of another. From things going on in the background, I already know 2020 holds a lot of possibility with many changes on the horizon. For the time in a couple of years, I feel very excited for what’s to come in my career as a smutlancer. But before I can really look forward, I need to look back a bit. Below is the monthly report for December and a bonus review for 2019. It was a great month and year. December 2019 Income December income is primarily based on...

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Episodes

Coming Back from a Break

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As its the first episode of 2020 after a two week break from the holidays, we figured it made sense to talk about coming back from a break. Whether that’s from a short vacation/holiday or because you needed a longer hiatus to regroup and re-energize.

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Freelancers / Making Money / Smutlancer Life

3 Things I Do To Keep Track of Income and Expenses

Disclosure: Affiliate links are included in this post. This means if you click a link and make a purchase, I make a small commission. This supports my work and my caffeine addiction. Second disclosure: I am not a financial or legal professional and am not qualified to explain legal, financial, or tax requirements in any country.  Making money from the content you create online — your sex blog, your erotic books, your pitched ideas, your videos, your WHATEVER — means that you operate a business. You might not have an official business license or LLC set up (something I recommend...

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Episodes / Sex Bloggers/Sex Toy Reviewers

On Uncategorized Blog Posts

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Want to have a better, searchable, clickable, readable site? Never, EVER leave a blog post uncategorized. In this week’s episode Molly discusses why they’re important and how to use them.