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Build Your Business… Grow Your Income
We’ve divided this general category into several subcategories to make your “Business life” a bit easier:
Business Basics: Learn about the things that enable you to effectively grow your business, increase your income, stay organized, and keep more of what you make in your pocket! That’s the basics of running a business, which is what you’ll be doing.
Getting Clients: Unless you’re simply building your own money-making web sites, you’ll probably want some clients to pay your way through your web copywriting life. In this category, we provide you with tips, ideas, and suggestions on how to go out there and get the best, highest paying, and most appreciative clients.
Marketing: Unlike the “Getting Clients” category, this section is more about the art and practice of marketing. We’ll provide you with ideas on how you can promote your own business to a wider audience, and give you ways that you can add value to your clients and earn a higher income by offering more services.
Working With Clients: Once you’ve got some clients to work with, what do you do next? Here, we’ll give you a hand with things like contracts, negotiation, and up-selling your services so that you can easily turn a $2,000 project into a $20,000 project!
When working with your clients, providing a satisfying experience will help you earn repeat business and referrals. Keep these things in mind to deliver great service and results…
Of all the social networks out there, LinkedIn is the most geared toward business. Which means it’s a good place to be as a freelance writer. Work on your own LinkedIn Profile as part of this month’s Practice Assignment.
When you work as a freelancer, your computer plays a critical role in your workflow. Use these 5 tips to organize your virtual workspace.
The way to build a successful business is to take meaningful action every day. But what does that mean exactly? Here’s how to know the difference between meaningful action and busy work.
Having repeat business from existing clients can increase the health and profitability of your freelance web-writing business. But you want your repeat clients to be high quality ones. Here are some traits to be on the lookout for…
Ready to start your year off strong? Take this strong start challenge and check off six things that tend to hold writers back from achieving big momentum.
If someone ever asks you to write a weekly blog post, jump at the chance… because a lot of good things happen when you write and publish weekly.
In March 2021, Google will implement a big change in the way it crawls and ranks websites. If your site is not mobile optimized, you may slip from the search engine rankings almost entirely.