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 [...]
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 [...]
April 12, 2012
A Year’s Worth of Writer Marketing Inspiration
Reading Lori Widmer’s latest book was a joy. Called Marketing 365: Daily Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Small Business, the book offers a few hundred marketing tips that anyone could implement. These are all presented in bite-sized chunks and the best way to get started is to riffle through the electronic pages and see what pops [...]
January 12, 2012
Going the Half Hog: Freelance Writing without Marketing – A Review
Spike Wyatt’s book on freelancing grabbed me from the title. ‘Going the Half Hog?’ I asked myself. Did this mean a half hearted approach to freelancing, as opposed to going all out aka the full hog? No, it didn’t. Instead this is a book for those who want to make a part time income or [...]
May 13, 2011
About A Writer – A New Approach
Earlier this year, I changed the theme on my freelance writing portfolio site. It was part of giving the site – and my writing services – a more professional image. This week, I made another improvement, by hiring someone to upgrade my about page. Sure, I could have written it myself. In fact, I have [...]
April 14, 2010
Tips for Wooing Your Writing Gig Prospects
By marketing and helping clients find you, you can make more money and reduce your competition instead of focusing all your energy on banging on the same doors as dozens of other freelance writers who saw a gig listed on a job board. For those that have started that marketing campaign to help clients find them, here are some tips to help you get people to query so you can court them
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