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Passive Writing Gig Hunting – Get Paying Clients to Find You
When you work as a freelance writer, job hunting can be a big part of your day and because time is money, doesn’t it make sense to handle it in a way that saves you time and increases your income? I try to handle job hunting in the same way as mak...
How I Put My Site On Steroids - Again
How I Put My Site On Steroids has proved to be one of my most popular posts, but it’s been three years since I wrote it. In today’s exercise for Problogger’s 31DBBB ......
Top Tips On Promotion
I’ve been writing about promotion since 2005 and over that time, I’ve learned a lot about the topic. Many people think Self Promotion: What’s The Point? My question to you is Are You ......
Comment Competition
I’ve been thinking for a while of running a competition on this blog, and a recent offer from UPrinting has given me the chance to do just that. So I now present (drumroll, please): the Get Paid To Write Online comment competition. The rules...
Writers - Promote Yourself On Wrideo
As a writer, I am often frustrated when promoting my work on the social bookmarking sites. Many of the sites don’t have specific categories for writing, and they certainly don’t have sub categories that relate to the writing business....
Are You Too Visible?
The other day I asked whether you were invisible as a freelance writer. While invisibility is undesirable, being too visible is also a problem. What do I mean by that? Deb Ng explained it best when she said that online is forever. It’s gre...
Are You Invisible?
When I started out as a freelance writer I was invisible - and that’s not a good thing to be. At the time I had years of writing experience, published clips in magazines and years of experience teaching journalism, but no one had ever heard of ...
How To Promote Yourself With Squidoo
A recent gig creating lenses for a client reminded me of how useful Squidoo can be for self promotion. I have to be honest: although I have eight lenses, I don’t promote them very much so I don’t get the full Squidoo promotional juice. In...
Promotion Is Free - Traffic Widgets
Today I’m going to talk about traffic widgets. These are little snippets of code that you put on your website, perhaps in your sidebar, to bring traffic to your site. This a free way to promote your site. There are dozens of traffic buildi...
Promotion Is Free - Social Networking
If you’re promoting yourself as a writer, then you can’t ignore social networking. The question is where to start and which sites to choose. I am not going to pretend that I could ever answer this question to everyone’s satisfaction...
Promotion Is Free - Joining The Blogosphere
In the first part of this series I suggested that writers start a blog as a virtual shop window for their writing services. If you’ve done that, then you are now part of the blogosphere, and there’s more to participating in it than simply...
Promotion Is Free - Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is another free self promotion technique that writers can use effectively. It’s also an excellent way of keeping track of your writing research, though I won’t say much about that here. If you’re interested I wrot...
Promotion Is Free - Article Marketing
I can’t talk about promotion without mentioning one of my favorite ways to promote - through article marketing. I’ve heard people criticize it, but I have found it an effective and free way to promote my writing services. The only investm...
Promotion Is Free - Forums
Once you’ve got a virtual shop window for your writing services, it’s time to let people know it’s there. One effective way you can promote yourself is to use forums. There are thousands of forums on any topic you can imagine, so it...
Promotion Is Free - A Web Presence
One of the first things to address when promoting yourself as a freelance writer is having somewhere where people can find you. These days, that means having a web presence - and that doesn’t have to cost you anything. My preferred method is to...
Promotion Is Free - New Series
I often get questions from new writers about how to get the word out that they are there and available for writing work. This topic has been coming up a lot recently, so even though it’s been covered before, I thought it was time to revisit it....
Self Promotion: What’s The Point?
If you’re working as a freelance writer, then you should be promoting yourself. You might wonder whether you have the time and money to undertake promotional activity, and whether there’s any point. I can tell you, from my own experience,...
Promotion Tip: RSSHugger
You can file this under ‘things I didn’t do when I should have’. I heard about RSSHugger months ago and somehow I never got around to signing up. The premise is simple. For the price of a review on your blog, you get a page where yo...
Making Freelancing Personal
What’s your online personality? Do people really get a good idea of who you are from your site, blog and interactions in the blogosphere? I don’t often have face to face meetings any more. I talk to most of my clients by email, IM or S...
Freelance Writing Questions: Dealing With Difficulties
Catherine asks What did you find most difficult when you first began freelancing? And how did you overcome that difficulty? When I went freelance, I faced two issues. One was a lack of contacts. The other was a lack of recent clips. While I’d b...
Writing Lab News January Preview
The January issue of Writing Lab News features another sneak preview. One of my contacts wrote to me saying that he thought he’d been scammed. I commiserated and offered some tips for avoiding scams in the future. Those tips became an article a...
Traffic Building Without Social Media
There’s more than one way to promote your site or blog. Though I’m a big fan of social media, I was interested to read this post on PiggyBankPie, titled How I Received 850 Visitors Without Using Social Media Sites. The 850 visitors we ar...
How To Promote Yourself Through Guest Blogging
As you know, I think all writers should blog. That’s because blogging is a great way to sharpen your writing skills in a relaxing way. Having a blog is also a wonderful way to connect with potential clients, with other writers and online friend...
Get Paid To Write Online Gets Interviewed
I’ve been writing about copyright for a long time. In fact, two of my early articles on this blog’s predecessor were titled Copyright: rent, don’t sell and Copyrights and copy wrongs. You could call it a recurring obsession. Now, I̵...
Reviewing Caroline Middlebrook
I’m not sure quite when Caroline Middlebrook’s blog caught my notice. It couldn’t have been that long ago, as it’s only been running since August. However, since that time Caroline a software developer turned online entreprene...
Promotion, Promotion, Promotion
And I’ll say it again - promotion. No-one knows you’re out there if you don’t tell them, so you have to get the word out about your writing services and skills. If you’re stuck for ideas on how to self promote, there’s a...
Writing Ads - Ten Laws
I don’t write a lot of ads, but I had to do some research on ad writing for a course that I’m doing. While researching, I found The 10 laws of writing advertising. It’s an old article that’s been transferred to the net and has...
Lessons In Making Money Online
A lot of people find my blog when they are looking to make money online. In fact, they want to know how to do it. While that’s not the main purpose of this blog, like many others I want my blogs and sites to serve three purposes. First, I want ...
