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The latest issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine is online. This week’s article is “Advertising Yourself: Get All The Writing Gigs You Want”.
Here’s an excerpt:
Want to be paid what you’re worth as a writer? If you do, you need to learn the gentle art of advertising yourself: that is, promoting yourself and your writing skills.
Many writers feel that advertising and self-promotion is a crass activity. You’ll find these same writers routinely complaining about “low pay for writers”. What these writers never realize is that other writers - the crass, self-promoting ones - are getting paid sums they’d salivate over, if only they knew.
Advertising Yourself As A Freelance Writer Makes Sense
What would you think of a restaurant which had no signs out front, no menu displayed, and which never advertised in any newspaper? Since the restaurant never bothered to advertise, it would never get any diners.
A horrifying number of freelance writers are just like that restaurant. They never bother to tell anyone that they write, and what they write. To get writing gigs, they go chasing after gigs that thousands of other writers chase after. These jobs may not be suitable for them at all, but since the writing gigs are advertised, they must be desirable.
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The best way to get Web writing gigs; forget the out-sourcing sites
May 28th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
I’m not a fan of the many out-sourcing sites online where you bid on writing/ designing/ coding etc gigs. This has nothing to do with the sites, which provide a great service, and which, if you use them correctly, have the potential to make you as much money as you wish.
I’m not a fan because few writers know how to use these sites to their best advantage.
Most writers have no clue about how to use the OS sites
Unfortunately 99 per cent of writers blunder onto these sites, look at some of the low, low, LOW bids, and imagine that they need to price their services even lower.
It’s depressing, because Marketing 101 says you should NEVER compete on price. When you do, everyone ultimately goes broke.
Now, admittedly there’s a lot of BS on these sites, and some of the “writers’” skills are minimal. They’re lucky to get even tiny rates. But some excellent writers price their services just as low, because they don’t know how to operate on these sites.
Find out how to use the OS sites in this week’s Fab Freelance Writing Ezine
This week in Fab Freelance Writing Ezine I show you how to use the OS sites and get the money you’re worth with the article: “Get Fast Freelance Writing Gigs On The Web’s Out-Sourcing Sites”. It’s out tomorrow. Subscribe, the ezine is free.
Now, back to the theme of this post.
Advertise your Web writing services online - get paid what you’re worth
There are plenty of ways to getting all the writing gigs you can handle without the OS sites. You can advertise your writing services online, and some of advertising services are excellent and they’re complete free too: consider CraigsList and Google Base.
If you’re willing to use paid advertising, your horizons are unlimited. You’ll get your advertising spend back and then some, when you roll out a decent advertising campaign.
So start advertising your services. When you advertise, YOU get to choose the clients you want to work with, and you also get to set proper rates, so that you can stay in business and pay your mortgage.
BTW, if you want to become an advertising whiz, consider my easy copywriting course - copywriters never run out of clients, and they’re experts on advertising too.
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Get famous: you need to promote your name as a Web writer
May 18th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
I’ve had a lot of interesting feedback from Wednesday’s issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, “get famous”.
The gist of the feedback was - “I’ve never thought of it that way.” So please, start thinking of it now. You must promote your own name as a writer, because if you don’t, you’ll always be an unknown quantity not only to the people who can hire you, but also to readers.
One of the first things a literary agent will tell you is that you must build your “platform” - this is the people who know you by name. A platform means that publishers are more likely to look favorably on you, because they known you know how publishing works. Name-recognition is EVERYTHING to any writer.
It’s vital. Until that knowledge becomes a part of the way you operate as a writer, you’ll always be a dabbler, not a professional. Publishers will not take you seriously, and will be hesitant about committing to you, because you don’t seem serious about your writing.
I’m sorry if this sounds harsh, but it’s true, unfortunately. Aside from anything else, the waters you swim in as a writer are full of sharks, who will think nothing of ripping you off. They’ll take your time and your energy. I’ve written about writing scams before. You make it less likely that you’ll be ripped off if people know your name.
Becoming known costs nothing - but it’s essential for your writing career
I’m constantly amazed by the writer’s Web sites I see on which there’s no mention of the writer’s real name. There’s either a nick name, or no name at all.
If your full-time job is not writing-related, then perhaps you might want to keep your name a secret… but why? Your employer isn’t likely to fire you because you moonlight as a writer. And not publicizing your name takes away from any credibility you have.
If you’re not promoting your own name, start doing so today.
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