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Many people who start up their own freelance writing business don’t come into their new venture knowing too much about marketing. Without a solid marketing plan, however, your freelance business has little chance of succeeding. Keep reading to learn of five cheap marketing ideas you can use to promote your business and start nailing those contracts.

Internet Marketing Tactics

The internet provides small business owners some very exciting and inexpensive marketing tools that can be all you need to grow your business. Make sure to include time in your schedule for developing and implementing promotional and marketing strategies to increase your business’ exposure.

Five Cheap Marketing Ideas

Article Marketing – Tailor-made for freelance writers, article marketing is a free and easy way to start marketing your services. Creating great, informative articles that include a backlink to your web page or blog generates organic human interest as well as improve your site’s SEO.

FaceBook - Creating a FaceBook fan page for your business is another powerful and free marketing tool. Also, FaceBook offers an extremely powerful advertising program that lets you select a single corporation, business niche or other organization to provide you with highly targeted advertising at a reasonable cost.

Email Marketing – Building an email list and sending out regular newsletters to remind potential clients of your business services is an inexpensive and effective marketing tool. Include an informative article and offer specials for your services to further entice your clients.

Twitter – Twitter marketing is gaining fast popularity. Twitter apps allow you to search for keywords relevant to your business so that you can target friends to follow. By building a presence on Twitter you can quickly expand your exposure to thousands of targeted consumers.

LinkedIn – LinkedIn is another great networking site that allows you to promote your business for free. Spend some time building up your profile and finding potential clients as well as other freelance writers with which to network your services.

The Less It Costs, The Longer It Takes

As a general rule, these five cheap marketing ideas can be extremely inexpensive but they all will require time and dedication on your part. Set aside time each day to implement one or all of these strategies to best improve your chances for quick success.

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Article marketing has become one of the most popular and effective means of improving your site’s SEO, increasing your web traffic and creating a greater web presence. But to be successful an article marketing campaign requires a daily investment of time and effort. If you just don’t have the time or are not a fan of writing all day, hiring a freelance article writer can be the way to go if you follow these tips.

If you’re not familiar with article marketing it’s a fairly simple but tedious process. The first step is to find some good keywords related to your niche market. Keywords should have enough traffic to be profitable without being saturated by competition. Google’s free keyword tool can help with this task.

Once you have a list of keywords, you or the hired article marketer then writes informative, quality articles around each of them. Unique versions of each article are then created and uploaded to various article directories, blogs or websites.

In addition to spreading the word to human readers, article marketing creates valuable backlinks to your site which can greatly improve your search engine ranking. Building quality content onto your site provides further optimization by presenting your site as an information hub, something the search engines value above all else.

Hiring a freelance article writer can be the best approach for running a campaign if you are unfamiliar with the process. Article marketing outsourcing sites like Elance or Freelancer will act as a third party to help you find and hire a writer.

Follow these tips for best results:

1. Before you interview a potential writer, check their profile, stats and client feedback provided for by the third party site. Outsourcing sites provide these data to help clients find quality providers.

2. Ensure that the potential hire is a native English speaking writer who will not use software to create the unique versions, or ‘spins.’  While someone overseas may cost much less, your campaign will not be successful if the articles are not of high quality. And spin software programs cannot produce articles that are of any interest to a human reader. Trust me, I’ve tried them all.

3. One of the key aspects of article marketing is that it is done on a regular basis. Make sure that the writer understands your schedule and agrees to meet your deadlines. Getting this issue handled up front can go a long way in avoiding disappointment later on.

Once this process is complete you will likely already have an idea of who you are going to hire. If there are no applicants who suit your needs, post the job again and be patient. There are so many great freelance writers out there it won’t be long before you’ll find one. By keeping these tips in mind, hiring a freelance article writer can be an easy and rewarding decision to make.

If you’re considering hiring a freelance article writer look no further! You’ve found the best, why bother with the rest? Contact us today for all of your article marketing outsourcing needs. The only success we celebrate is yours!

Times Are Tough But Not for All of Us

If you’ve been looking for freelance writing jobs from home I’d wager you’re a little bit surprised by the sheer volume of fabulous opportunities there are. Although, if you’re a veteran ad copy guy who boogied through the 1980s and 90s bringing in untold fortunes while you played office hockey, you have my condolences.

The thing is, with these tough economic times combined with the global networking ability the internet gifted us, smart companies are looking to outsource their copy writing jobs to help cut marketing costs without backing off of their campaigns.

So as we can all empathize with ad exec’s losses, we can simultaneously take full advantage of the situation like any self-respecting freelance writer would. Never before have there been so many opportunities for freelance writing jobs from home. From home! Like, in your pajamas or underwear or….ew.

What you as a freelance copy writer need to do is to remind those big companies what happens when a business backs off of their marketing during economic hardships. Studies show that businesses that either ramp up or maintain their marketing efforts during a recession enjoy, on average, over 250% growth during that time. Companies who pull back the reigns on their marketing budgets not only suffer a much lower growth rate, less than 19%, they also have an uphill climb once the recovery is in swing. Slide this information somewhere in your proposals.

It sounds a teeny bit like extortion maybe, but you’re really only offering them the hard facts. And let’s face it, you’d be talking their language. Think of it more as persuasion. They should thank you, or at least pay you something.

But what if you’ve never tried to look for freelancing writing jobs from home? Where can you turn? What should you do? Well, first check out sites like Freelancer and Elance. These are both excellent sources for finding freelance work and the sites act as a third party to protect both you and your clients.

For no investment at all save a little time, you can start bidding on jobs and working your way up the ladder in PJs. Just make sure your slippers have slip resistant strips on the bottom. My back STILL hurts from running, um sliding, to get to the phone last week. World’s softest socks…pfft.

If you have been considering looking for freelance writing jobs from home , stop by and say “hi!” We’re happy to share any advice, tips or tools that we have at our disposal. We’re even more happy to receive those things. If you’re in the market for a snazzy new freelance writer who works in her pajamas, look no further gorgeous. Stop by for a free quote and a completely innocent and totally complimentary virtual hug (we all need one from time to time.)

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A New Career From An Old Passion

Few people start out learning how to grow a new freelance copywriting career without already having a love of writing. I wrote fictional short stories and unfinished novels for years before I even considered a career as a freelance writer. But it’s the best decision I ever made and my business has been rewarding personally, creatively and financially. Here’s a few things you might want to know if you’re just getting started.

Salary – A freelance copywriter can make anywhere from a few thousand dollars a year to six figures every six months. It all depends on the market, writer’s experience, setting your own rates and client acquisition.

Skills – Of course, you must possess some talent in writing if you are going to pursue a new freelance copywriting career. But you also have to KNOW you’re good! Don’t wait for the world to tell you, read your stuff. Go on, I’ll wait.

See? It’s good! So, don’t underbid or otherwise sell yourself short. You’re certainly not doing yourself a favor, but you’re also lowering the fee scale for other freelance writers as well. We all get more accomplished if we stick together.

Sales – No, not writing marketing copy for your clients. You need to sell yourself before you’ll be able to see any clients coming in. First try to identify who your ideal clients are, what are their ages, salary ranges, socioeconomic or geographic areas.

Use this information to create a powerful Unique Selling Proposition (USP). Design your USP to both address the potential client’s needs and have a compelling reason why they shouldn’t go to the other guy across the street. Show them why you’re unique.

The great news is that this can all be done for little or no money at all. Check out sites like Elance or Freelancer who act as a third party and allow you to easily set up your new freelance business and start bidding on jobs.

Know that starting a new freelance copywriting career means you will be CEO of your new business. Be prepared to have to work on additional skills such as organization, customer service and the dreaded, ever-elusive self discipline.

If you have been considering a copywriting career, stop by and say “hi!” We’re happy to share any advice, tips or tools that we have at our disposal. We didn’t succeed without the help of others and now it’s time to give that back. In the market for a snazzy new web content writer? Stop by for a free quote and a completely innocent totally complimentary virtual hug (we all need one from time to time.)

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With this hub we’ll share extremely useful, highly secretive, and coveted information…but only with people cool enough to find us.

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