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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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…
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…
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…
Do you find you spend a lot of time convincing potential online writing clients to hire you? What am I saying? Of course you do. That’s all part and parcel of life as a freelance writer online. What if you…
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,…
Even before I’d written and published my first eBook (WARNING: strategic but necessary link imminent), How to Start a Travel Blog and Make Money, I said I was going to share what I learned from the process with you. So…
Most of what your mind will offer you when the doubts start to kick in about freelancing are based on what you’ve heard from other people. Or (more likely) what you’ve read online. The problem I have with most of…
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…