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 –…
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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…
When you think about freelance writing online, you often think about writing blog posts. Perhaps writing web pages too. While that makes up a lot of freelance writers’ work in the online world, press release writing is something that has personally…
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…
During your first year as a freelance writer, keeping your overheads low can be the difference between “I’ll never actually make any money as a freelancer” and “I can do this”. >> This is a guest post by another successful freelance…
After the popularity of the post, 5 TED Talks for Writing Inspiration, this week I’ve been doing some more watching, sifting and compiling. Among all those inspirational and educational TED talks, I’ve selected the ones that speak most to freelancers and entrepreneurs…
[feature_box style=”18″ title=”About the author:” alignment=”center”] Lisa Finn has 15 years’ experience as a freelance writer. Only not consecutively. She took a few years off to kiss scraped knees, shuttle her kids to park dates and build forts in the…
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…
You know a lifestyle business is for you if you can relate to any of this… When you were younger and first started full-time work, being part of the rat race was OK – exciting even. You felt sort of…
[feature_box style=”11″ only_advanced=”There are no title options for the choosen style” alignment=”center”] >> This is a guest post by another successful freelance writer. I went from full-time worker to full-time writer online. Find out how I – and many other writers…