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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 ...
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 ...
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&...
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 ...
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 ans...
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 the...
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 ...
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 wa...
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 thous...
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 ha...
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 co...
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 ...
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...
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 mor...
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 o...
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 s...
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...
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 poten...
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. Yo...
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 Caro...
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...
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 articl...
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...
Best Writing Blogs Competition
Michael Stelzner of Writing White Papers, where I occasionally guest blog, is seeking nominations for the best blogs for writers. While there’s stiff competition for choosing the top ten, I wou...
My Two Year Adsense Experiment
It’s been just over two years since I first signed up with Google Adsense. Like most people, when I first put Adsense on my first blog, I thought I would soon be earning large sums of money, but...
19 Posts Writers Shouldn’t Ignore
I’ve been trying to get better about linking to posts I’ve enjoyed. Here are some of the posts I found noteworthy in October: The Importance of Socializing for Freelancers How To Blog a N...
WLN November Issue Preview
In Writing Lab News this month, I’ll be focusing on success. In other words, ways of boosting your writing career. I don’t want to give too much away, but there’s a brand new piece o...
Mega Link Love Fest - Part 2
This is part 2 of my Mega Link Love Fest: Going Beyond the Blog - How to Extend Your Blog from ProBlogger Blog Tips Blogs and Leveraging the Search Tail from Performancing.com - Helping Bloggers Suc...
The Get Paid To Write Mega Link Love Fest
I subscribe to about 150 feeds in my reader, most of them about writing and blogging. But I often fall behind when it comes to sharing the link love. Now, thanks to Firefox and Greasemonkey, I’v...
Writing Series
Every now and then I write a series of posts on a similar theme. Sometimes that’s because there’s too much to be said to fit it into one post. At other times, it’s because I find rel...