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 –…
Category: Be a Better Marketer
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…
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…
If you’re on Twitter and not using it to further your freelance writing career, you could be missing out on a powerful and efficient marketing tool. The publications and companies you want to write for have Twitter accounts, and many…
When you work online your reputation and portfolio is all you have to convince clients that you’re the capable writer you know yourself to be. It can be the difference between you getting hired as a writer or not. Therefore,…
Lately I’ve read a few posts on popular blogs on why writers and entrepreneurs shouldn’t start a blog. Apparently there’s no money in it anymore. Because Freelance Writers Online aims to help writers with entrepreneurial spirits, I felt it only…
So here I am – the official launch day of Freelance Writers Online. It’s not perfect yet, but that’s OK. As it goes, I’m not starting a new blog per se – I’m just shifting everything over to a new…
I didn’t really mean to start writing a blog. Back when I quit my job and began building a freelance writing career, blogging was one of the only ways I could get my writing published though. Most of the work I…
As a freelance writer I was a bit slow on the uptake when Pinterest casually sidled into mainstream social media. In fact, I had absolutely no idea how to use Pinterest to promote my freelance writing business and actually assumed…