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June 13th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

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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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Web writing: get a blog job

June 9th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

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.

Read more…

Promote your Web writing services with Google Base

May 24th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

One of my ads on Google Base

There are dozens of ways in which you can promote your Web writing.

One of the easiest free ways is with Google Base. Think of it as Craigslist on steroids.

You can run an entire business from Google Base, you don’t even need a Web site. For your Web writing, use Base to advertise your Web writing services.

I used Google Base extensively last year, then got busy, and forgot about it. I’ve just started using Base again. You can too.

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