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Earning More in the New Year
If you’ve struggled with raising rates in the past, or worry you’ll lose clients in the process, check out the simple 3-step strategy that’s worked for me for years. In a couple of weeks, we’ll look at ancillary products and services you can supplement your freelance writing income with. So there are more ideas on…
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Search ATS Sites for More Freelance Writing Leads
This week’s post on the blog covers three ways you can use traditional job boards to find unadvertised freelance writing opportunities or new leads for your prospect list. But job boards aren’t the only tool you have at your disposal to find these “hidden” gigs. While my preferred way to go about this is to…
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Real vs Fake Authority
In this week’s post on vanity metrics, I touched on the topics of “authority” and “influence.” If you’ve followed my writing over the years, you’ll know these are topics I’m passionate about. And problems I saw in the PR community more than a decade ago have increasingly flowed into the freelance writing and blogging communities since. Today I’d like to…
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Is a Slow Website Costing You Freelance Writing Clients?
If you’ve been freelancing for years, you might have had the same basic website and professional blog all that time. Things might have slowed down. Or maybe you updated the design without realizing your template or theme was bloated, and now it’s slower than it used to be. How a slow website can cost you. There…
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Client Blog Post Ideas
If you’ve ever taken on freelance blogging work, chances are good you were tasked with coming up with blog post ideas for your clients. If you specialize in a niche (rather than blogging as a project type), this might be easy. You’re intimately familiar with the subject matter. But what about working with clients in…
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Sticky Websites
When a potential client visits your freelance writer website, or reads a post on your professional blog, what do they do next? Chances are good many of them leave. But sometimes a single page isn’t enough to convince them to hire you. A Google search might have taken them to Page A where Page B…
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Tweaking Your Target Market
NEWSLETTER 2 Sometimes when you’ve been in business for a while, things can become a bit too routine. You can stick to things that are comfortable, or habits you’ve fallen into, and in the process your income might stop growing. Now, for some freelancers, that’s perfectly fine. If you’re earning enough to support yourself (and…
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Client Content Calendars and Site Updates
NEWSLETTER 1 Do you ever get tired of chasing the next gig? Wouldn’t it be great if you could build a stable of regular clients that fill the majority of your schedule? What if you could turn one-off, or occasional, clients into regulars? Getting more work from existing clients can lead to less time spent…