Category: For Writers

One thing new writers tend to realize very quickly is that there’s far more to the profession than unfolding a laptop and letting the words flow. There’s the hustle for new clients, accounts, and admin tasks and the constant need to maintain focus and motivation. The most difficult thing of all for many writers is […]

How much time do you spend plowing through job boards, applying to writing gigs, and pitching new businesses? What if you could spend less time chasing after new clients and more time on paid assignments? Wouldn’t it feel great if you didn’t have to worry about where your next gig will come from when managing […]

As writers, we focus the majority of our time, attention, and efforts on our craft. However, being great at what you do still won’t help you communicate and work with clients. Winning over and maintaining a relationship with your customers will require much more than excellent freelance writing. What was that you said? Do you […]

As of May 2018, there were 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day. The amount of content being created each day has gone up since then. During any given minute, we, as a planet, send out 16 million text messages and 156 million emails. And we publish 4 million blog posts every single day. […]

Writing is tough! We’ve all experienced those days where we’re just staring at a blank page, wondering when inspiration will hit or pondering why we’re unable to string a group of words together. However, just because it’s difficult doesn’t mean that we can make the same blogging mistakes over and over again. Here is a […]

Drafting the content is only one small part of keeping a happy client. It also boils down the relationship you’re maintaining with them both before and after the content is complete.  This way, you can heighten your chances of keeping this client as a consistent customer and maintaining a strong working relationship. In this blog […]

We get it – you’re so incredibly busy writing, messaging clients, and looking for work. So, you don’t have a lot of extra time. And when you do have those extra few minutes, you probably don’t want to spend them on a computer researching what is currently happening in the writing industry. So we made […]

I fell in love with writing in second grade. Writing was the key to what my 8-year-old, gap-toothed self saw as my natural habitat, one where I could transform anything and everything simply through the words I chose. What’s that have to do with content writers? Read on… Then I got to college and discovered […]

“Nobody wants a generalist; everybody wants a specialist.” Does that mean everyone in the freelance writing industry needs to niche down? Newbie freelance writers often scoff at the idea of limiting themselves to one – or even a few – different subjects. They start their journey into wordsmithery with the misguided notion that they can […]

Editor’s Note: The following blog, Marketing Yourself as a Writer: How to Land (and Keep) a Client, is part four of a four-part series designed to help freelance writers market themselves more effectively in an increasingly crowded field. As a quick refresher, you first learned how to create a killer bio and resume. Then you […]