Three Ways to be a Freelance Writer for Hire

You say you have a collection of words and phrases by means of your heart to offer the world. An excellent way to transplant your knowledge and heart felt words is to create your own freelance writing industry. Prior to striking out on your own to relay to the world your offerings of sincerity; there are three main objectives to consider.

First in order to earn a living as a freelance writer and be successful, a person should be creative in their thoughts, writing techniques, and have a good business sense with accounting background.

You need to learn to be creative in marketing techniques, and advertising your work. It is neccessary to have a personal and professional attitude in attire, speech, and business clientele.

• Know your work AND your market
• Obtain a tax ID
• Make up examples of your freelance writing works; or if you have any tear out sheets from previously published work
• Purchase a good accounting system either manual or software. QuickBooks is excellent software that takes care of all your accounting needs including tax preparation and information. It is presented with business contacts and addresses, invoices, online banking, payments, and purchasing. It comes equipped with company web site information and QuickBooks support services.
• Make up price lists for each type of work you will perform
• Always, always, write up contracts with your clients

Second: Opportunities for your writing profession draws closer by interviewing clients and presenting your talents with professionalism in your presentations.

To have a successful interview there has to be an exchange of information, both from the interviewer and the interviewee. The first requirement of the interviewer is to begin with the introduction of your name, business name, and state the reason for your visit with that specific client. If you know what the business is about it will give you a clue how to present your specific skills that will meet the needs of their establishment.

Example: You walk into a floral shop and one of your specialties is the knowledge and or experience working with flowers; you may offer the fact of photographing their flowers, putting it on a CD or DVD and write a special advertisement for their business that is appealing and eye catching.

Your main objective is to know what you are qualified to do prior to entering the door of that business and speaking to the manager. Do not extend services that you know you are not qualified to pursue or you may find yourself struggling to complete the task. Your quality will suffer and you won't be able to present a professional quality product.

Below are the 10 priorities before meeting and presenting your quality product:

• Type a presentation page or poster with your company name and what your company is about. List specialties and personal contact information and make plenty of copies
• Plan ahead what specialties you will present to which contact
• Write down what you want to represent to each business and rehearse
• Practice your introduction and presentation prior to entering the establishment
• Above all, dress professionally, smile, speak clearly, and get to the point immediately
• Try to glance around to utilize anything you see in the establishment that would reflect a part of your presentation to the manager or owner of the company. This will give them the impression you are interested in what they do.
• Begin with the introduction of yourself, reach your hand out to shake theirs, then hand them your page or poster to look at while explaining why you are there
• Make reference to something about their establishment that will bring their attention to why your services are the greatest and why it will be useful to them
• Present some of your previous work and a price list so you can show them why and how you are qualified to satisfy their needs
• Smile and thank them for their time and they can contact you for further information when they are ready to hire you to write their special project

Third: Have a Strategy, Process Analysis, Topics & Development Structure

• Classify and divide the categories of your best quality writings
• Process and analyze each step that shows great effects, definitions and exact meaning with variations
• Write examples
• Summarize your qualifications and special techniques
• Anticipate possible market and give examples why they will be best marketing strategies for clients
• Develop your market
• Go for it!!!

Believe in your capabilities and develop a "nitch" in the market that no one else has.