Comments on: Interviewing Experts: How Do You Know What to Ask? http://freelancewritinggigs.com/goodstuff/interviewing-experts-how-do-you-know-what-to-ask/ ...to help you sharpen the skills you need to succeed online Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:30:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrea http://freelancewritinggigs.com/goodstuff/interviewing-experts-how-do-you-know-what-to-ask/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Andrea Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:40:02 +0000 http://freelancewritinggigs.com/goodstuff/?p=167#comment-280 Thanks so much. I'm glad to have found this article because I actually have to interview some local business owners for an article today and it's not something I'm used to at all. I am extremely nervous about doing it. On a related note, I also want to mention that I find the site to be a great resource. While it's true when I visit the site I look at the job postings first, I eventually read a lot of the other posts and find them extremely helpful, even though I don't always comment. Thanks so much. I’m glad to have found this article because I actually have to interview some local business owners for an article today and it’s not something I’m used to at all. I am extremely nervous about doing it.

On a related note, I also want to mention that I find the site to be a great resource. While it’s true when I visit the site I look at the job postings first, I eventually read a lot of the other posts and find them extremely helpful, even though I don’t always comment.

]]> By: Vera Marie Badertscher http://freelancewritinggigs.com/goodstuff/interviewing-experts-how-do-you-know-what-to-ask/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Vera Marie Badertscher Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:18:57 +0000 http://freelancewritinggigs.com/goodstuff/?p=167#comment-245 All good advice, and I would add one thing. Besides making a list of the things you are curious about, and your reader wants to know, go against expectations. Everybody asks Bill Gates how he got started with computers. Ask him instead what his favorite kind of car is and why. Interviewing a celebrity known as an airhead? Ask his opinion on a serious subject. Interviewing a serious scholar? Ask about her first pet. All good advice, and I would add one thing. Besides making a list of the things you are curious about, and your reader wants to know, go against expectations. Everybody asks Bill Gates how he got started with computers. Ask him instead what his favorite kind of car is and why. Interviewing a celebrity known as an airhead? Ask his opinion on a serious subject. Interviewing a serious scholar? Ask about her first pet.

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