Promote Your Writing: Get Famous Online (And Offline) - Issue 31
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Want to discover how to get famous? “Fame” is essential for any freelance writer. When you become known, people seek you out to buy your work - because they know you. You’ve become a brand - brand “you”.
The info’s in this issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine.
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* Editorial: Get Famous
* Article: Promote Your Writing: Get Famous Online (And Offline)
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[Editorial] Get Famous
This week’s article is about getting famous, and why it’s important to your writing career that your name becomes known.
I have no idea why many writers are hesitant to flaunt their name. When they hang out their shingle as a freelance writer, they tend to choose obscure business names, which are usually a play on words. While this is fun, it’s also useless. You’ve got a name, and you need to build it, so that the people who can buy your writing recognize your name. When they recognize your name, they WILL buy from you - it’s only a matter of time.
People buy from people and businesses they know. It’s been said that a buyer needs to see an advertisement at least seven times, before it’s recognized. This name-recognition applies to writers, too.
Build your name - get “famous” (the definition of famous is to be known and/ or talked about) - and your freelance writing income will rise.
Affectionately,
Angela
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** Freelance Blogging: Fun, Easy and VERY Profitable **
Want a new freelance writing career? Become a freelance blogger.
I’ve been blogging since 2001, and for the past 12 months I’ve been swamped with offers of blogging gigs, and so have other freelancers who are highly visible on the Web. Blogging has huge returns on investment for businesses, so they’re hiring bloggers to update their blogs each day - often several times a day.
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* Article: Promote Your Writing: Get Famous Online (And Offline)
(c) 2007 Angela Booth
Fame is money for a freelance writer, just as it is for anyone else involved in the arts. Celebrities hire staffs just to ensure that their names stay in the headlines and their faces appear on magazine covers. They’ll do just about anything to get noticed, no matter how humiliating the attention happens to be - humiliating for a “normal” person, that is, not for an attention-grabbing celebrity.
No, I’m not suggesting that you perpetrate a stunt that will get you into the headlines, although it couldn’t hurt. I am suggesting that you take promotion seriously, because 99 out of 100 writers don’t. This is why 95 per cent of writers never make more than $5000 a year.
Perception Is Everything: Promote Your Writing, Build Your Name
Whether you’re writing books, magazine articles, or copy for businesses, your NAME sells your writing, so promotion is vital. Promotion is also everything that you do.
For example, I advise my writing students to look on queries and proposals they send to magazines and publishers as promotional tools. Your aim with each contact is not to sell - it’s to become known. When you send six queries to a magazine over six months, you get known. Yes, you get known even if there’s no response at all. The editor will take note of your writing style, your topics, and your professionalism. Sooner or later, you’ll receive a phone call asking you to accept an assignment - simply because you took the time to become known.
Contrast this “queries as promotion” strategy with the way that most freelance writers approach writing queries. They send out dozens of queries to dozens of markets, without targeting any markets in particular. When they get a commission, they just got lucky, in much the same way as a lottery winner gets lucky. This is not the way to build a successful career.
The More People Who Know Your Name, The More Writing Gigs You Get
Building your fame - getting your name known by editors, publishers and copywriting clients - takes time. However, it’s a process that’s easy, and a lot of fun. All you need to do is to realize it.
Think of getting known this way: millions of people want to write, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are professional writers. Magazines and publishers receive thousands of queries and proposals every year. Why should they pick you, out of the thousands of other writers? They give you opportunities when they KNOW you.
I’ve written about “bragging” before. There’s an unfortunate tendency among writers to look on self-promotion as bragging. This is nonsense. Promotion is integral to a freelance writing career. It’s about as far from bragging as you can get. It’s professionalism.
Promote And Get Famous - And Get Over-booked
So, start promoting yourself. Get known. Fame equals money for writers. The more editors, publishers and companies (if you’re a copywriter) who know your name, the more writing gigs will fall into your lap. Very soon you’ll be in the happy position of being able to say - “Sorry, I’m booked solid for the next ten months… but I’ll be happy to work you into my schedule next year.”
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Freelance writers just don’t realize how much money there is to be made by writing for the Web: many writers use the Web as a research tool, they don’t see the Web as a mass of millions of markets. They don’t realize that Web sites are STARVED for good writers.
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** Write It Once And Sell It Forever - **
Get A Constant Flow Of Cash By Writing And Selling Ebooks… It’s Much, Much Easier Than You Think
Ebooks are BIG online. Most ebooks contain from five to 100 pages, and sell anywhere from $10 to $100 dollars, and over, depending on the information. Clever writers are realizing that there’s gold in ebooks, and that they’re well-placed to mine that gold…
Discover how you can self-publish online, and make a great income, writing and selling ebooks with “Write and Sell an eBook: Every Writer’s Quick-Action Guide To Writing Ebooks”.
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** New Writing Opportunity “Beat Your Paycheck! Web Writing SECRETS” **
“How Make More Money With Web Writing Than You Ever Will With A Paycheck… In A Month Or Less”
Even if you’re a new writer, you can make enough money from Web writing to leave your day job - fast.
As a writing teacher, I work with new writers every day. Many would love to leave their day job, but they don’t yet have the skills to write copy for corporate clients, or for national magazines. Writing in your home office seems like a dream. Many promising writers give up writing because their lives are too busy - with a full-time job and family, they’re too tired to write.
If this describes YOU, I’ve found a solution. I asked a new writer who’s making great money writing for the Web to share his secrets. He’s happy to do so. Read my new ebook.
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Beat Your Paycheck! Web Writing SECRETS: How Make More Money With Web Writing Than You Ever Will With A Paycheck... In A Month Or Less By Angela Booth
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May 17th, 2007 at 1:12 am
[…] To be paid what you’re worth, you have to act like you’re worth it. This means that you’ll need to market yourself effectively, and you have to assess what people need, and send out proposals. See my ezine article “Get Famous”. […]
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:44 pm
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May 27th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
[…] The first way, branding, means that you get your name out there online. It’s the easiest way to get people to come to you and offer you work. This is why I hammer the promotions/ blogging/ get famous theme in ezine issues, and on my blogs and sites. It’s because it’s easy, and the effect is cumulative – it starts with a trickle and before you know it, you turn away much more work than you accept. You cherry-pick the best offers people make you, because you can. You’re well paid for writing. […]
June 11th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
[…] To have the ability to set your own rates, you need to become “famous” as I wrote in a Fab Freelance Writing Ezine article. You have to promote yourself, and your writing skills online. […]