How Writers Can Promote Themselves to Get More Writing Gigs

You do not need to have your own business or your own product to make money online but you do need to decide if you want to make money from offering your services or skills to others. Becoming a freelancer or independent contractor is easier if you learn how to market yourself online.

Think about it this way, if people do not know how great and talented you are then they will miss out on what you have to offer and at the same time you will miss out on the income potential.

Times are tough and people are losing their jobs in the “real world” due to retirement, disability or being laid off. Think about all those years of experience that is just waiting to be found online.

Setting up a profile page for self promotion

The best way to go about promoting yourself is to set up a profile page. You can put one on a free site such as live journal, squidoo, blogger or wordpress.

Once you have a profile you can tell your story, post some photos and let people know how they can contact you. It is important to let them know what skills you have and what your rates will be. Have a portfolio of examples of the type of writing style you have to showcase on your page.

Now that you have a page for people to see what you do, now it is time to promote yourself. You wil utilize the same tools as a person who has a business or e-commerce site. 

Where to promote yourself for writing gigs

By signing up with social media websites, using article directories to link back to your profile page or learning SEO to optimize the keywords on your page to draw in prospects.

You can sign up at freelance writing sites such as ifreelance, guru and odesk but the competition is pretty high, you will be low balled by a group of writers who can afford to write for pennies on the dollar. If you are just starting out and especially if you are trying to replace a day job. You can not afford to work for those rates.

Setting your price with competitive rates

You will have to set your price and stick with it. Promoting yourself online is the best way to find clients and prospects who will want your quality of writing for their projects.

Another idea would be to contact SEO companies that help local businesses, email them and see if they need content writers. It just might be the quickest way to get some work online.

Writers can earn a living online full time, it just takes some marketing and promotion to let the world know who you are and what you do.