Top Opportunities for Writers in 2012

Your writing career is in your hands. Commit to making 2012 your best writing year ever.

To help you, we’re publishing a series of articles, “Top Opportunities for Writers in 2012″. These strategies work.

Start putting one or several of them to work for you.

1. Freshness Means Writing Jobs

Our first opportunity comes courtesy of Google, with its “freshness” update.

2. Offer Curation Services

Discover what content curation is, and how you can offer it as a writing service to your clients in 2012.

3. Writing Kindle Ebooks

Is writing Kindle ebooks an opportunity you’ll want to pursue in 2012?

Obviously that depends on your own inclinations. I love writing at book length. If you do too, then Kindle publication is for you.

4. Create a Money-Making Blog

Hundreds of thousands of bloggers are making money blogging, so this opportunity should be an easy opportunity for you to make money in 2012. So it is, but you need to get off on the right foot. Make a mistake, and your blog will never make money. Sad, but true. Discover how you can create a money-making blog today.

5. Create Websites for Companies

Creating websites for companies which aren’t online already, and/ or boosting the content for companies which have a minimal online presence is a top opportunity for you in 2012.

Many businesses don’t have a website; other businesses have tiny “brochure” sites. You’re a writer, so you can help these businesses to tap into the online world. When you help them to make money, you’ll make money too.

6. Develop a Content Strategy Service

As the Web becomes ever more crowded and competitive, it’s not enough for your clients just to publish content. They need a strategy for that content, and you can provide it.

7. Ghostwrite Bios and Resumes

Here’s a question for you: what’s the worst-written (in the sense of least effective and unproductive) page on many websites?

Answer: the About page – and yet, that page is arguably the most important page on the site. Few websites “get” the About page, and this means that it’s an opportunity for you, the eager Web writer.