Fab Freelance Writing Blog

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Want an easy way to get writing jobs? Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) gives you a boost. If you’re a subscriber, one of the benefits of your subscription is the kick start it gives to your writing career.

In Lesson 3, you’re invited to join the writing team at ContentBee. You send me your blurb, and I add it. This gives you an immediate credibility boost.

Credibility is vital online, because anyone can claim anything at all, and it’s difficult to assess writer’s claims online. When you’re listed on ContentBee, buyers of your writing services know that you’re serious about your writing, and are committed to delivering.

Several subscribers have won writing jobs over hundreds of other candidates because of their listing on ContentBee. Buyers want writers who have Web writing skills and who know how the Web works. Your ContentBee listing assures them of your legitimacy.

Here’s what a new freelancer said:

I’ve been meaning to write to you to thank you for offering this wonderful course. It is so worth the price you charge for the “hands on” tools and resources you give. I have been trying to get started as a freelance writer for a while but always got stuck and overwhelmed with where to start. I am absolutely loving SYWON!

Greta Gunselman
http://www.gretawrites.com
http://www.squidoo.com/write-freelance

Technorati Tags: writing, writing jobs, writing tips, freelance writing, writer, Web writing, writing skills

Freelance writing takes courage.

I received a message this week from a blogger who’s worried that his blog will fail.

My blogging correspondent hadn’t yet launched his blog. He was trying to find a niche which would make him a great income, but which had little competition.

He may well be looking forever. The fact is that if your niche, for example growing mushrooms on a roof garden, has little competition, it’s almost certainly not profitable. I advised him to choose a niche about which he’s highly enthusiastic, and not to concern himself about competition. If there are competitors, it means that there’s money to be made in the niche.

His first choice of niche was self help, but he was scared of the competition. I told him to launch his self help blog. He’s an individual, he’s suffered challenges in his life and has overcome them, so I’m sure his self help blog will get readers and will make money.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Step by step to blogging success

Blogging for Dollars is a comprehensive blogging package which helps you to make money blogging.

Pro bloggers can make serious money, whether you choose to blog for a company as a freelance blogger, or build your own entrepreneurial blog. Many bloggers make six figures annually, and blogging networks have been sold for millions of dollars.

Make money blogging today - you’re sure of success with Blogging for Dollars to guide you.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

No one likes failure. But as writers, we have to be willing to write anyway. Will his self help blog succeed? YES… as long as he commits to writing it.

Managing fear of failure

Fear of failure is common for writers, but it’s also pretty pointless, for two reasons:

* Your biggest success may come from a failure - you may need to go through the failure to get to your success

I’ve “failed” many times as a writer, and so has every other successful writer I know. Those failures were ALL golden, even if I didn’t think so at the time. I failed my way to my first multi-book contract, for example.

That taught me that nothing you write is ever wasted.

* It’s impossible to fail at writing - once something is written, it’s written, and you can always use it somewhere

If our blogging friend’s blog “fails” (I don’t see how it can, but for the sake of argument), he’ll nevertheless have material online which he can monetize, and which will bring him an on-going income.

He’ll make contacts via his blog too. He’ll be offered opportunities to write and make money simply because his blog is online. He may be offered a book contract, blog jobs, and other opportunities he can’t even imagine.

There’s only one way you can fail at freelance writing - and that’s when you stop writing. So write.

Discover the world of Web writing - make a great income writing from home, or from anywhere

Sell Your Writing Online NOW

There’s great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.

Join the Web writing gold rush with Angela Booth’s comprehensive training: “Sell Your Writing Online Now”.

Write more - the key to your writing success

Yes, you can write more - even if you’re a world-class procrastinator.

Did you know that when you write more, your writing improves? Many of my writing students experience this. They find that when they write more, writing is easier for them - they’re not dominated by their inner editor.

My new writing class, “Write More And Make More Money From Your Writing: Develop A Fast, Fun Productive Writing Process” is based on lessons I developed for my private coaching students to help them to write more, improve their writing, and make more money writing.

If you’re struggling with your writing, the class will help. The techniques you’ll learn in class with help you write fiction, nonfiction, and copy for business.

Discover how you can write more, improve your writing, and sell more of your writing to higher-paying markets.

Technorati Tags: writing, blog, writing for the Web, make money writing, work from home, writing jobs

Want to make a great income as a freelance writer?

As I’ve said many times before, and will go on saying that the key to your writing success is just two things - CREATION and PROMOTION.

You must promote (market) yourself and your writing to succeed. If no one knows what you do, no one can hire you.

As Small Business Success Stories: What We’ve Learned So Far reports:

“2.) Ongoing education makes a big difference to your online success. You don’t have to become an SEO expert, but you should devote consistent time to learning the latest trends and tactics in online marketing. Guitar teacher John Tuggle, profiled in the second interview, told me that ‘learning marketing has been the best thing I’ve ever learned how to do. I see tons of talent go to waste because of the lack of how to get the word out about yourself.’”

I know many writers are shy. However, you’re doing both yourself and your potential clients a huge disservice if you let this get the better of you.

You must promote, every day.

BTW, this teaching writers how and when and why to promote is the reason that most of my ebooks come with coaching. I want to stop you wasting years of your life because you don’t have experience. And aside from writing experience, experience in promotion is where 99 per cent of writers fall down.

I’ll always be grateful to two people - an agent and an editor - who helped me far beyond the calls of duty when I started writing around 30 years ago. They took a naive creative and set me on the road to understanding how writing and publishing works.

So do learn how to market, it’s the key to your writing success.

Want to develop a six-figure writing income?

The September 2007 issue of The Writer had a great story: “Secrets Of The Six-Figure Freelancers”. The story’s wonderful because it shows you the potential of a freelance writing career; with the development of the Web and its unlimited markets, if you can write, you can make a great income as a freelance writer.

I chuckled when I read the story because many writers think a “six figure income” is hype. Either that, or they think that a great income is reserved for copywriters, or genre novelists, or other specialist writers.

The fact is that YOU can develop a six-figure writing career: you just need to know that it’s possible to earn $250,000 a year and more as a freelance writer, and then make that your goal.

And of course, you need know-how. That’s what my writing ebook manuals give you. In 30 years as a freelance writer, I’ve learned the tricks of the writing trade, and I’d love to share those tricks with you, so many of my ebooks offer free coaching. Whatever your level of experience as a freelance writer, you can develop a fantastic career, when you know how.

Develop your writing skills today.

Technorati Tags: writing, writing jobs, writing tips, freelance writing, home business