Re: commercial blogs and other commercial writing

**M* D* <m*@gmail.com>**

I wrote business stuff for most of my career and now write garden columns
and a blog using a pen name.
Sometimes my business writing had my consulting company name on it but often
it had the name of the company
for whom I was working.

Most writing for pay does not have our names attached.

I agree with the others, as long as you keep
it clean in your head, no one else will be concerned or even much
interested.
Martha Stoodley (Mollly Day at
http://muskogeephoenixonline.com/blogs/MollyDay/

p.s. if you can make money writing about things you love, i.e., plants,
gardens, etc. go for it.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:58 PM, MARY FRAN MCQUADE <mfmcq@sympatico.ca>wrote:

> I've been reading everyone's comments on this subject with interest. The
> discussion touches on another question that I've been trying to resolve.
>
> I often see garden products, garden centres, gardening services, etc., that
> REALLY need help with their communications. And I know I could help them
> (for a fee, of course).
>
> BUT I wonder, if I do writing projects for commercial interests like these,
> would this be seen as a conflict of interest for me as an independent
> garden
> writer? Would it jeopardize my credibility as a feature writer or
> columnist,
> say?
>
> As a garden journalist, I feel I probably shouldn't also work for gardening
> businesses. On the other hand, it's pretty hard to make a living as an
> independent!
>
> Am I splitting hairs here? Being too precious about ethics? I'd really like
> to hear others' opinions. (Do be kind, tho. A tough winter and tough
> economy
> have left me feeling kinda tender, like some of my poor perennials.)
>
> Mary Fran
>
>
>
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