Get known as a freelance writer: visibility pays

Whether you’re a new freelance writer, or are an established pro, getting known as a freelance writer has many benefits.

The major benefit of course is that you can stop the never-ending hunt for writing gigs. People approach you.

Here’s what I share with my writing students about getting known. It takes around three months for any consistent marketing activity to pay off in solid, on-going gigs.

The keyword here is “consistent.” This means that you need to market every day, for three months, and you’ll find that you’re booked solid for months ahead.

Once you’re known as a freelance writer, you don’t need to keep up this rate of frenetic marketing activity. In fact if you’ve got a Web site which you’ve used as your primary marketing tool for three months, you’ll be turning away clients and passing them on to others.

This is the big benefit of your writer’s Web site and blog – they market for you 365 days a year.

Your writer’s Web site is a never-ending source of gigs, but you need to create it, get some content onto it, and treat it like the precious resource it will become by promoting it.

Here are some tips to help you to become visible via your writer’s Web site:

* Add content to your site. The more pages your site has, the more chances you have to get found via the search engines. The easiest way to add content to your site is via a blog;

* Write for others’ Web sites. When you write for another site which is already receiving a good stream of traffic, your byline and URL direct that traffic to your own site. It’s a way of kick-starting your own traffic stream;

* Add your portfolio to your Web site. If you’re a new writer, create some writing samples and add them to your site – people want to see samples.

Here’s another benefit of getting known and becoming visible: when people approach you, you can raise your rates. If you’ve got five potential clients clamoring for your time this week, you’ll write for the clients who pay you well.

If you’ve been slow in developing your own site and getting known as a writer, stop standing in your own way – build the career you deserve. Start today.

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If you can use a word processor, you can write Web sites.

Many writers shy away from creating Web sites… they imagine it’s too techy, too complex. It’s not. A small simple site can begin earning money for you very quickly. As a rule of thumb, if you’ve created a site in an area in which there are advertisers you can start earning five to ten dollars a day per site. Now $10 a day isn’t much. But what if you had ten sites all earning $10 day? That’s $100 a day, which is $36,500 a year, just from ten simple sites. What if you had 20 such sites, all earning you $10 a day – or even more – in fact, some sites will earn you $100 a day? “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza” shows you how.

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