Writing for the Web Secrets: Get Famous, Get Great Gigs

You can make great money writing for the Web, but many beginning writers accept low-paying gigs without realizing that they could be making much more.

For example, new Web writers often write for $5 an article. That’s fine, when you’re learning writing skills, but once you’re an experienced writer, you can and should be paid ten times that for an article – and more.

The top Web writers are asking and getting $1 a word: there’s a shortage of skilled Web writers, and Web site owners and companies are happy to pay experienced writers.

So how do get great gigs? You get famous. You promote your name, and your skills. Once you’re a known quantity, people trust you. Content is valuable, and companies are happy to pay competent, skilled and reliable writers.

Here are five steps to getting famous, and getting great Web writing gigs:

1. It all starts with your Web site – your global home

You need a Web site. Your Web writer’s site can be a single page, but you’ll want to increase the amount of content with a blog and archives. Your archives act as your portfolio.

2. Show what you can do on your site: build a portfolio

Many writers approach Web writing as if they’re applying for a job. This is a mistake. As a Web writer, you’re not an employee: you’re an expert.

Show your expertise with a portfolio of your Web writing. Your past clients will usually be happy for you to link to your writing on their site – it’s added publicity for them, after all.

3. Remind your clients you exist with a newsletter

Once you’ve won a client, you’ve won a relationship. If you build the relationship, you’ll become the “go to” person for all that client’s Web writing needs, and for the needs of their contacts as well.

A short monthly newsletter sent out via email to your client list reminds your clients you exist.

4. Press releases extend your reach

As a Web writer, you write online press releases for your clients. You should write them for yourself as well.

Press releases will win you clients all over the globe.

5. Super-simple, super effective blogging – get a blog, get famous

Blogs are a simple, effective way to get famous. They’re also a lot of fun. For the minimal time you spend updating your blog, you’ll win a constant stream of new clients. Blog – it’s worth it.

So there you have it: five steps to get famous, and get great Web writing gigs. Your opportunities as a Web writer are unlimited. Start exploring them today.

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