Ready to start marketing your writing business online? Here’s a beginner’s guide from Emma-Julie Fox of Pitstop Media. Want to land more writing gigs? Have you tried marketing yourself through social media? If not, here’s a list of the top social media marketing strategies that can help you get more writing jobs: 1. Get active [...]
January 17, 2013
Reader Question: Promoting Your Writing Online
Blog reader LC had this question about the writing business: “what can I do to promote myself more so work starts coming in steadily.” Let me illustrate with examples from my own writing career (I’m concentrating on the 7 years of writing online and not the many years of journalism that preceded it). In the [...]
October 19, 2012
The Top 5 Ways to Promote Your Writing Business on Facebook
by Danielle McGaw Are you using Facebook yet to promote your writing? Or are you using it, but are not sure if you are doing it “right”? Then keep reading for some tips on how you can use Facebook to promote your writing. Facebook can be an excellent tool for writers to promote their business [...]
October 12, 2012
Contently – A New Option for your Writing Portfolio
Writers are always looking for the best way to display their clips and samples – and I am no exception. While I firmly believe that you should maintain control by having a portfolio on your own domain, there’s nothing wrong with using another site as well, especially if it makes your stuff look really good. [...]
June 27, 2012
Why My Email List Is like a Cactus
I have a confession: I built an email list, but I didn’t do it on purpose. Like many of my marketing endeavours it happened almost by accident. Growing my email list was a bit like raising a cactus – I stuck it in a virtual pot, left it to fend for itself and it turned [...]
March 12, 2012
7 Easy Steps to Creating Buzzworthy Content
Writing and marketing? Then this guest post by Lior Levin offers some useful tips. Whether you are an individual or part of a corporation, creating content that gets others engaged and generates excitement is a crucial part of marketing online. However, this can be difficult to do, especially if you don’t have a large social [...]
January 16, 2012
Using Flyers To Sell Your Writing Services
Whenever you’re promoting a business, with a flyer campaign or otherwise, it always pays to articulate carefully what you can offer your potential customers. Writing is no different, but this is one niche where your flyer needs to be particularly carefully tailored. Any promotional flyer should communicate that the purpose of your business is to [...]
October 27, 2011
Reading on Writing – October 2011
Ready for another blogging linkfest? Here’s a long list of posts I’ve bookmarked and shared in the last couple of months, along with a short excerpt from each: Writing Business 5 Rarely Remembered Rules for Building Your Freelance Brand - Good brands command respect and establish a reputation. They establish your presence in the marketplace. Top [...]
October 26, 2011
How To Get Your Writer Marketing Done In An Hour A Week
It’s that time again – another of my monthly posts for the Word Chef blog carnival. This month we’re talking about productivity, something that the writers on this blog have written about many, many times. Originally, I was going to write about writing productivity, but been there, done that, so I’ve included a list of [...]
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