The Marketing Secret – It’s The Secret To A Blossoming Professional Writing Career
If there’s one secret professional writers know, it’s this: you must market, and market consistently. People need writers! Magazine editors need you, local businesses need you, companies all over the globe need you… but they must know that you exist, and that you can write for them.
All marketing and promotion you do is cumulative. People need to see your name many times before they will hire you, or will consider buying anything from you. Large companies know this, which is why they spend millions of dollars on advertising to keep their name in their customer’s mind.
Your marketing can be simple, but it must be consistent. All your marketing must work together too.
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Does this sound confusing?
If so, here’s a simple way to get started marketing. Decide that you will do ONE thing every day to market yourself. This may be interacting in a forum (not writers’ forums – other writers can’t hire you); or writing an article to post to the many article directories; or commenting on blog posts on others’ blogs (if you have your own blog); or writing a guest post for a blog.
You can also PICK UP THE PHONE. Calling anyone anywhere has never been easier. VOIP companies like Skype let you call other people completely for free, anywhere in the world. (You can call me on Skype: angee33)
If you want to be booked solid for the next six months, pick up the phone and make 200 calls. If you make 20 calls a day for the next ten days, making those calls will take you less than two hours a day, and you’ll in consistent work for many months.
When you market, you take control of your writing career – no one can do this for you. Once you see the effects of consistent marketing, you’ll look on the time you spend marketing as the most fun part of your day.
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Winning Writing Jobs on the Outsourcing Sites the Easy Way
Want to kick start your writing career? The easiest way is via the outsourcing sites; many writers make great full time incomes on these sites, and you can too.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve acted as the project manager on several large projects, which meant that I spent a lot of time sourcing writers. Although I’ve done it before, this time I found the process particularly frustrating.
In this article I’ll give you some tips on what a buyer’s looking for when he’s assessing 50 applicants for the same writing job. I hope that it opens your eyes, shows you what’s essential, and helps you to win as many projects as you wish.
Writing Beyond Brainstorming – Easy Ways to Get Great Ideas
Would you like some easy ways to get great ideas for your writing? Brainstorming is popular, but I’ve found that other methods are more effective, so let’s look at them in this article.
1. Ask Questions – just ask, the answers will come
Kids ask many questions; as adults, we grow out of it, and this is a shame, because it makes us less creative.
Get back into the habit of asking questions, especially of asking YOURSELF.
I keep a Mac program called iNotePad open as I write; on my PC, I use KeyNote – just to store my questions.
Although ASKING questions is vital – you can forget ANSWERING them.
You don’t have to do anything other than ask. Your subconscious mind is your partner, so you can safely and easily trust it to do 90 per cent of any and all creative tasks, so the answers will magically just arrive.
You’ll meet someone who has the answer, or you’ll find a book. Asking is what’s important, because the answers will arrive automatically.
2. Read or Watch Movies
I read a lot. Reading has always been my primary form of entertainment, it’s also a way of getting ideas – I find that I get more ideas when I make time for reading.
It’s not a matter of getting ideas from what I read, it’s a way of priming my imagination, and letting my subconscious mind feed me ideas.
If I’m stuck in a project, I play a DVD movie on my iMac; usually a British comedy. I’m not watching the movie for entertainment, I just relax, and let my mind drift. Before too long, I get inspired and go back to the project.
3. Free Write
You know much more than you think you do. One of the easiest ways of discovering what you know about something is just to start writing. Yes, this is another way of partnering with your subconscious mind.
Pick a question, or write down a topic. If you’ve been commissioned to write an article or a book, then that’s the topic.
Set a timer for ten or 20 minutes, and write, without lifting your hand from the paper, or removing your fingertips from the keyboard. Just write whatever comes into your mind.
Most of any free write will be junk, but I guarantee you that you’ll come up with between one and five great ideas – ideas which just popped into your mind.
Free writing has another benefit; it primes the pump. You’ll find that when you free write for ten minutes on any project that project flows much more easily.
I discovered this because many of my copywriting clients are in manufacturing industries and in real estate. I’m not in the least interested in concrete rebar or in new housing developments, but free writing before I start writing a project and during it gets me enthusiastic… And enthusiasm is a prerequisite for creativity and a constant flow of great ideas.
So there you have three easy ways to get great ideas. I find them much more useful than brainstorming, and I hope you will too.
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Write more – become a pro writer
Yes, you can write more and become an expert writer – even if you’re a world-class procrastinator.
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Your Writer’s Goals – Make Them Work for You
Do you set writer’s goals for your writing career? I hope you do, because goal-setting is essential: you can only achieve what you initially conceive. So let’s see how to create achievable goals the easy, fun way.
Everyone sets goals. I’m sure that like most of us, you create New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately, often these resolutions never last longer than a couple of weeks in January.
Goals you WILL achieve (and more easily than you imagine possible) start when you write them down, and then follow up on them, by tracking your progress. The tracking aspect is vital.
I call my own goal setting process “Goals and Reports”, and I spend half an hour to an hour every Sunday on it.
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