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Freelance writing is a numbers game. The more queries and proposals you send out, the more commissions you will get.
Here’s the thing: if no one knows who you are and what you do, no one will hire you.
I’ve been preaching to writers for years about the NUMBERS (write more, sell more), and the value of what I call mini-proposals - letters and emails of 200 words or less, designed to introduce you and what you do. They work.
Letters of Introduction - A Profitable Alternatives to Queries By John K. Borchardt reports: “Letters of introduction can be a powerful tool to increase freelancing income. Sometimes letters of introduction (LOIs) are an effective alternative to conventional query letters. One LOI, which I wrote last April to a custom publisher, resulted in four assignments for a total of $11,000.”
Editors are busy - you have to reach them when they have a need
All editors are busy. If you could see what an editor has to do in the course of a day, you’d no longer wonder why you get no response to your messages and queries.
Since editors are so hard-working, you need to stay in touch. Each long-term relationship I’ve developed with a magazine (I have a couple which have lasted over a decade) took effort to establish. I kept submitting proposals, until finally the editor called me because of an urgent need. One assignment led to another, and another, and more after that.
So be persistent - you can work for any publication which hires freelancers, online or offline, IF you have persistence and patience.
Look on introducing yourself to editors as pitching yourself - pitching your expertise and your enthusiasm. And remember: it’s always a numbers game.
Want the secret to a GREAT freelance writing income? Here it is: write more.
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