7 Steps to Take Your Freelance Writing Business off the Ground
Freelancing is tough.
You don’t know to start and get your solo business off the ground.
You’re stuck in content mills and can’t find quality work.
You don’t know how to find work that isn’t crawling with competitors.
Maybe you need to find better job boards, you think.
Forget articles on finding the perfect job. Let’s focus on what you can control — your time management and priorities.
Get those right and get your business humming.
1. Find Your Niche to Target Your Clients
Writing niches refers to the main industry in which you write, specialize, and target your clients. It’s one of the foremost, important and difficult tasks in your freelance writing career.
Niches are based on your personal interests such as cooking, dancing, and singing. Moreover, writing becomes much easier, when you write, what you love. And, social media can be a great place to find your interests.
Let’s suppose, if a large number of your social media posts are related to cooking, then you can choose cooking as your writing niche and start writing about it.
2. Start a Website to Offer Your Writing Services
Millions of blog posts are published every day, and thousands of people fail in their freelance writing career. And, it’s better to have a writer’s website.
A writer’s website is a tool where your prospective clients can find you, get in touch with you, and see your work.
Suppose that you’re in the cooking niche, and you start a website, then, you can integrate a cooking blog into your website and showcase your works through it.
3.Create Some Initial Wring Samples
Writing Samples are the documents that you submit with your job application.
As every client wants the best writers from the pool of thousands, samples shows them your expertise and let them know if you’re a good fit for the job or not.
However, if you don’t have any samples until now, then you can start with at least three of them, and publish them on your blog or blogging platforms like medium and contently.
4: Start Taking Assignments on Job Boards
The biggest mistake that freelance writers make is that they write a lot at first, but eventually the momentum breaks and they stop writing.
However, job boards can help you keep your momentum going by providing you with some paid writing work, which means you’ll earn side by side honing your writing skills.
Initially, you can start with some trusted job boards like Problogger, Bloggingpro, and Indeed, and get paid for your writing.
5: Perfect Your Cold Pitching Game
Sometimes, job boards are a pain in the ass, and as you get stuck in your freelance writing career applying on job boards, you’d always hope for some quick ways to land well-paid writing work.
Cold pitching is one of the popular ways among freelance writers to land some highly paid writing work within months by targeting your potential employer and email them.
To stand out from the crowd you can include in your emails things like where you’ve found them, how their company or agency pique your interest and how you can help them with your writing services.
6: Promote Your Work Through Social Media
To increase your spirit as a writer, hone your writing skills, and level up your writing career you can promote your work on social media.
Platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter are great places to promote your work and get feedback from the top writers, and editors.
You can join The ProWritingAid Writer’s Community to share your work for feedback, ask questions, and chat with other freelance writers.
7: Set Your Freelance Writing Business Goals
As a freelance writer, you need to write daily along with sending guest post pitches and applying on job boards.
And setting proper goals gives you an upper hand over these daily hustles.
You can write in the morning, send pitches in the evening, and apply on job boards at night. However, it’s up to you to set the proper time to meet your daily goals.
Now It’s Your Turn
Find your niche, write three samples, and pitch on job boards.
And, you know, people fail because they read post after post and don’t take action.
There are hundreds of posts like this and there is nothing wrong to gain knowledge, I agree with that.
But remember your main aim is to making money freelancing, right.
So, go ahead pitch on job boards, grab some gigs, and if necessary cold pitch clients.
You can do this.
Go and grab your job, it’s your right.
