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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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…
This is it. The ultimate list of the top 10 writing tips collected from around the web and beyond is here. (Click here for the two writing tips I totally made up.) 1. Write every day That’s right – I’m starting…
Becoming a freelance writer full-time means 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. In the end, I figured that all the writing tips in the world won’t…
The main thing that makes me compare being a freelance writer to learning to drive are the things my driving instructor used to say to me. So, with the ingeniously named sub-heading below (I don’t know how I come up with…
Travel writing is a dream job for many, and contrary to popular belief it’s a niche that has a lot more scope for freelance writers online than you might think. There’s this whole preconception that travel writing work is extremely hard…
A short post this week to address an issue raised by one of my students recently. It was a good question, and it instantly gave me the sense that others may be stuck on the same thing as they begin building their freelance…
It’s a minefield isn’t it? The array of online tools and resources for freelance writers I mean. There’s an app for acronyms and a tool for time management, a blog for business and a guide to grammar. The problem is,…
Despite the gazillions of freelance writing opportunities online, the number of eager writers jockeying and bidding for them can make them seem few and far between. So where’s an eager new writer to look in order to start earning more…