In response to an earlier post, I received a couple of messages about finding writing jobs online. Of course you can. It's not difficult, or mysterious. Here's an excerpt from my ebook writing manual Writing To Sell In The Internet Age: For Novice And Professional Writers:
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Millions of markets --- just for you
Because writers are creatives and not salespeople, they wear blinkers when it comes to markets.
How many writers' marketing guides do you own? Or subscribe to? Several, I'll bet.
Nothing wrong with that. However, if you think that these are the only markets for your work, your income will never be what it should be.
If you've ever gone job-hunting, you will have been told that around 70 per cent of jobs are never advertised.
It's the same with writing. Most markets never advertise for a writer. Aside from magazine and book publishers, I'm talking about businesses, government organizations, hospitals, universities, Web sites, radio stations, TV stations and on and on. If you're seeing words, someone wrote the words, and it's a market.
And it's a market for you, if you approach it in the right way. Let's say you've found a Web site you quite like. You check out the site, and decide to find out whether they can use you.
PLEASE DO NOT ASK WHETHER THEY USE WRITERS.
They will either ignore you, or say "No".
You need make a proposal.
I'll be talking about proposals a lot in this course. Because they work. They will show your potential client what you can do, they will offer your client something he or she needs, and you will get work.
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