Marketing yourself isn’t just a useful skill to have if you want to see any kind of success as a freelance writer – it’s an absolute necessity. Below are ten tips on marketing yourself as a freelance writer online –…
Once you’ve built yourself a healthy portfolio of work, it’s time to wean yourself off the low-paid writing work and instead attract some bona fide, high-paying clients. One way to do this is to write a regular blog on your…
If you’ve decided you want to become a freelance writer, sooner or later you’re going to have to work out how to build a writing portfolio and get clients. To get clients you need to be able to prove you…
Don’t worry, it can happen to anyone. It’s a totally normal and natural occurrence, and much more common than you think. Whether writing for clients or for their own blogs, even the best writers get stuck for blog post ideas…
Let’s us begin with what this post is not: This post is not a comprehensive guide to SEO (search engine optimisation). It’s a guide on how ordinary writers (that’s you and me – not the ones with a degree in…
I used to hate the thought of pitching for freelance writing work. A long time ago when I was a student, I (very) briefly had a part-time job cold-call homeowners to sell them kitchens. To emphasise, these weren’t qualified leads….
This is it. The ultimate list of top 10 writing tips collected from around the web-iverse. (Didn’t ya know everything written on the web is 100% true?) 1. Write every day Classic. Yes, I’m starting with the Queen Of All Writing Tips….
Becoming a freelance writer online involves reading a lot of writing tips. When I first started out, I read everything, from blogs to books to the tiniest of tidbits on Twitter. (Yas, alliteration.) In the end, I figured that all the writing tips in the…
I’ve never regretted the decision to quit my job and become a freelance writer. Not even when the initial euphoria and smugness of not having to get up early and drag myself into the office wore off. Not even when…
Are any of these stopping you from becoming a freelance writer online? Be honest. You haven’t started a blog on your website because you think nobody will want to read it. You have no social media presence as you think…