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…
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…
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…