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Web writing: get a blog job

June 9th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

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I’ve just posted an article “Pro blogging: Get hired as a blogger - five tips” on my Blogging for Dollars blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

You enjoy blogging, and you’re looking for a new source of income, so you decide to go blog job hunting.

Not so fast. Do a little groundwork first, and you’ll thank yourself in the end. Blog jobs are plentiful, but for best results you need a blog job which suits your expertise, your experience, and the way you like to work.

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Web Writing: Your Top Five Money-Making Skills

May 31st, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Web writing is booming. Anyone who can fill a Web page with words is making a very nice income.

However, there are a couple of downsides to all this happiness for writers. The first is on the client side - competition is exploding, and at the same time the search engines are taking a sharp sword to content exploiters. The second downside is on the writers’ side - since everyone’s a writer now, it’s difficult to differentiate your skills and stand out.

So, dear writer, it’s time to upgrade your Web writing skills. Not only are you doing your clients a favor because you’re producing the great content your clients need (it makes them money), but you’re also standing out from the rest of the writing pack.

Here are the top five money-making skills for Web writers today:

1. Blogging - Become A Pro Blogger: Your Clients Will Love You

Blogs are essential for Web sites, because they’re indexed fast. Every site needs a blog. Get up to speed on blogging, fast. It’s an essential skill for a Web writer.

2. Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Your Clients Need Your Skills

With billions of Web pages online and millions added every week, your clients will thank you if you learn how to optimize Web pages. Keep it simple: you just need basic on-page and off-page optimization skills, you don’t need to become a coder.

3. Link-Baiting: There’s Gold In Links

Link-bait content is gold online. Link-bait is any content which attracts links from other sites. If you can create link-worthy Web pages and articles, you can name your own price as a Web writer.

4. Fast Site Creation - Move At The Speed Of Thought, And Win

Writers write, but online it’s handy if you can toss up a basic Web site within a day or two. This is because everything moves fast online: to get in on the ground floor of a new trend, you need to be fast. Do yourself and your clients a favor and learn to quickly create basic sites.

5. Domain Name Expertise - Million-Dollar Domain Names

Some domain names are worth millions of dollars, and their worth will continue to grow. You’re a writer, so you know the power of words. If you can create great domain names, the web is yours.

So there we have the top five money-making skills for a Web writer.

Feeling overwhelmed? Don’t be. You’ve got plenty of time to learn these new Web writing skills, and you don’t need to be a pro in any of them. The basics are easy to grasp. So get writing with your new skills. You’re doing your clients and yourself a favor, and you’ll stand out as a real Web writer.

Your Web writing plan - focus on one thing at a time

April 3rd, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

At least once a day, I get an email message which asks: “Which of your writing products should I choose? I’d like to do copywriting and blogging, and writing for the Web, and -”

The first time I received one of these messages I was so surprised I almost choked - the hazards of eating your lunch while reading email - but I’ve become used to them, so that I’m no longer shocked. I’ve realized that new writers are new.

The fact is, you CAN’T write in every area, until you’ve mastered each area - and you master each area one at a time.

Start with ONE form of writing, and succeed at that, FIRST

Focus is vital. You can’t learn copywriting, blogging, and writing for the Web, all at the same time. I’ve been writing for 30 years, and by now I’m quite competent at many forms of writing - fiction, nonfiction, copy, Web content, nonfiction business books, technical journalism… and on, and on. However, I’ve spent 30 years writing, so since I’ve spent from eight to 12 hours writing every day, usually seven days a week, it’s inevitable that all that writing would pay off.

Pick one area, that looks as if it might be interesting, and start with that. Each word you write will help you to become competent in that area. And once you’re competent in an area, you can branch out into other areas.

I started out writing romance novels, and moved into copywriting and writing for magazines. Then I wrote business books and did computer journalism - which I still do. I haven’t done a time line of what I did when, but I know it took me a couple of years to sell a series of romance novels - actually only eight months once I became determined.

I started writing copy because I needed to do PR for a business, and other business owners asked me to write copy for them.

I started to teach writing because I was invited to do a course at a community college… etc.

The point here is - pick an area, focus on that. I’ve said elsewhere that your writing will tell you where it wants to go, and that’s true. So choose, and then FOCUS, and write.

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