How can I get more clients for my writing gig?

Tried Vworker?

You can try posting your services on forums such as this one. I think it's about $20 to post your service and if you give out a few free reviews to some reputable warriors, or whatever other forums call there posters, then you should get some good feedback and customers as long as your work is good and worth the price you ask.

What determines your profits in any business is skill, marketing and self esteem.

You will need to create a strong brand around writing and be competent in it.

You can start a warrior for hire thread, and do some additional marketing. A good way to drive free traffic to your thread is through posting comments on threads where you know answers.

The problem is that at your price point you are in a crowded market. The ratio of buyers to sellers in the $.01 is pretty close (if not balanced against writers). The way to escape that rat race would be to buck up and charge more for your content.

I would guess that you might run into a snag in that situation though. If you are only pulling a 3 star rating at one of those content mills, you might not be ready quality wise to command more money. Of course this is just speculation, I have no idea what your skills actually are. Still, I would recommend practicing your craft so that you can charge more per client.

There is much more breathing room the higher you go, believe it or not.

Please not your signature link does not work. That is a problem.

Try iWriter.

You can basically go to the customer rather than have them go to you.

Here is some great advice for any struggling web writer.

hey if you are from US , then try WriterAccess - Content Marketplace - Website Content Services , I have not used it but it pays well

Register on Internet Marketing Forums
Give them free 5-20 Articles
Get Reviews
And Then try to market more yourself

I'm in the same boat. It's hard to write so many all day so I'm trying to find additional ways to streamline my income. I can usually write pretty fast, but this past week has me behind since my mom is in the hospital after a heart attack this week.

I do have a blog I try to update, and I have one adsense site that I purchased on the WF that is working out pretty great. I'm also brainstorming some other ideas.

Dee, if you can really write magazine quality articles then maybe you should try actually writing for magazines? Many of them pay much more than $25 for a single 500 word article and can bring high quality traffic to your site.

For instance, here is one of the people I recently started reading:

The Best Way to Begin a Writing Career | Goins, Writer

It's sad, but good writing is becoming a very bad paid skill in the online marketplace.

There is one place however where you will never sell yourself short and that is.......

Writing Essays for college students.

If you do it right, then you can get paid very handsomely. They require a lot more research and diligence, but for a 10 page essay you can expect at least $500.

That is the standard price pretty much.

I say offer your services FREE for first 5 customers to all major digital marketing forums (this, bhw, etc etc). After some good reviews, customers will come flocking.

Thanks for all the useful tips and links boys and gals.

The discussion of pricing here is very interesting. I was also going to say that you don't need to limit yourself to a price you feel is "fair" based on the competition, though others have said it a lot more eloquently.

When I was ghostwriting I didn't really have any "connections" online, I didn't even have my own website to showcase my samples (though this is a good idea), but I was never out of work even though I was charging higher.

There were a few things that helped. Firstly, I made sure I took a lot of time over my ad. I thought about what potential clients typically want to know (rates, turnaround time, experience, payment terms, samples etc.) and made sure it was all there for them in the thread.

Secondly, I didn't just rely on that thread. I took the link, put it in my signature and posted helpful replies wherever I could. I made sure these replies were also well-written to showcase my writing.

I then browsed through job offers and sent a number of replies. I used the same basic format but always personalised the responses to the individual job to show potential clients I had really read what they were looking for.

I found that I had a HUGE advantage over many $0.01 per word writers because a) I paid attention b) I didn't disappear on clients after just a few cheap articles and c) my samples and ad weren't full of glaring errors like many are.

The good news is once you put the effort in in the beginning, you'll get referrals and you'll always have work.

From the viewpoint of someone who was looking for a writer recently... it is totally obvious to me which writers are charging $0.01 just because they can't write or they don't put in any effort, and which writers deserve to be paid more. Spend some time on those samples and ad and it really pays off.

Freelancing10, I'd recommend;

1. On your profile, have as many examples of your writing as possible. Potential employers want to see what you can do. It staggers me how many freelancers apply for jobs when they don't even have a properly set up profile.

2. Establish yourself in a niche area. Think about what you know a bit about and hold yourself out as an expert in that area. Think deep. If done properly you will get work not only from the people looking for writers in your niche area, but also from others as you generate referrals.

3. Offer to write for free (ie; on a trial basis) for an employer who you think may be a repeat hirer or may be able to offer you ongoing work.

Many other things you can do to get work in this area, but these three tips should have you well on your way.

I would suggest staying persistent in your approach, and beginning a thread (or answering them) in the Warrior for hire area on WF, and also create an account on Odesk.com.

I'm sure you'll do well once you take a different approach. All it takes is the courage to keep moving forward.

Do you have your own website setup? A good looking site can help and is also a good place for you to display examples of your work while at the same time using those examples to help you get some natural search engine traffic.

Brand yourself. Advertise yourself. Look and act professional. Run a spot using animated gifs. Like this -

Maybe you need to rewrite your ad to get more customers interested. Maybe add more benefits in your ad.

I saw videos that people make for their gigs and upload it to youtube with link to the gig in the description , it can bring you more traffic and clients.

You can offer your writing service right on ebay. Ebay includes a service section. And the best part is it doesn't cost any money at all to get started on eBay...

You can get more clients this way.

Read the quoted part in post #135 in this thread: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post4967505.

I can chime in on the fiverr problem:

It takes several weeks for a gig to start receiving orders usually.

And that'll only happen if you provide great compelling copy for your fiverr gig. Either that or mentioning you are based in the US or UK will usually help.

Once you begin to get orders and receive great feedback, your orders will begin to snowball because others will trust you more. It just takes those few clients to take a chance on you, and trust me, they are out there.

You just have to give it time

I just wanted to respond to the advice to work for free. I don't see any reason why writers should work for free. If you have samples then you can show them to potential buyers. You can even let them pay after they're happy with the work. If they're happy, they should pay. I never offered my writing for free and my clients were still happy to give me reviews to help my chances of securing extra work.

Time is something that you are absolutely going to HAVE to invest. When you are marketing yourself as an individual, you have to realize that your clients are evaluating you as an individual. When you are bidding on Freelancer.com or writing on a content mill like iwriter or text broker (this is going to sound mean) but you are no body. People have the luxury to not commit to anybody and if they do not like something they do not have to pay. I worked on iwriter.com and still do the occasional gig there (4 star rating btw) but I gave up on it because:

1) Clients sometimes expect a 1000 word article when the project description asks for a 500 worded one.

2) Sometimes the instructions were vague and so my writing also was vague. It lacked personality and was just a string of information that people are going to choke down the throat of the internet.

3) Being asked to write with a keyword density of 5% with KW being "How to lose weight fast", somehow managing to accomplish that and then being given a poor review because the "article did not flow naturally" .

If you want to be a freelance writer, you have to make sure that the right people know about what you have to offer. But before embarking on your journey to create your website, marketing yada yada..... in my opinion there are a couple of things that you need to consider:
1) What do you want to write about? Because writing 5000 words a day is not feasible if you want to provide a quality service. Quality is the only leverage that you have because if people wanted someone who would spend 30 minutes on their articles, they would go to the mills and the freelancing sites. If you want to earn a $100 a day, you would be much better off writing 5 articles at $20 each. If you could specialize in a niche and establish yourself as an authority then you would see more results in the short run. Once again, what do you like to write about? what are your interests?
2) Marketing your services: As mentioned so many times in this thread, posting an ad in the Warriors Hire forum has certain limitations. You are going to have to compete with a dozen other guys, who are just as good if not better at what you do. In my opinion a better alternative is to comment on other threads which are related to online writing and offer your advice. If it is constructive and if people like it, they are going to check your profile or your signature. So have your samples ready in your signature. Guest posting on other blogs and article syndication is also a pretty good idea. Write according to your target audience. If you are targeting internet marketers, post and comment on the popular blogs. Write articles on the several aspects of internet marketing and submit them to directories. These take time but they work.

You can also try 75 "Write for Us" Pages - Freelance Writing Jobs | A Freelance Writing Community and Freelance Writing Jobs Resource to check out which blogs are going to be paying for a guest post. Another thing you could do is to take the niche you would like to write about and doing a Google search like "workouts for men"+"write for us". Establish yourself as an authority so that people do not have to take a chance with you; so that they will actually save up and allocate a certain part of their capital just to hire you!

I can see that you are open to feedback even the ones which are bitter to swallow and that is a good thing. I know how much it sucks when your writing is compromised by stupid typos and whatnot but if it counts for anything, learn from that experience and grow.
Always try to interact with your clients and build a personal relationship. 80% of my clients are referrals from clients I had previously worked for. Talk with them, get a feel for their personality and try to incorporate that in their writing. Sometimes they like humor, sometimes they like being professional and sometime they like to experiment. I like this part of my job .
Recommended reading:
Allfreelancewriting
MenWithMens
BloggingPro.

here's exactly what I would do (you can use a similar variation of this if you don't like it)
I would find somebody on the warrior forum whose style and personality I liked
I would find out what their niche was
I would find out what their Main keywords are
I will put those keywords in titles for 10 articles
I would write 10 articles for that niche specifically
I would create 10 videos of those 10 articles
I would create 10 audios of those articles
I will go to fiverr and have a info graphic made with those 10 titles for pinterest

then I would e-mail this person and say
"listen, I know you don't know me but I found you on the warrior forum and I really like your style and the way you communicate with people.
The reason why I'm contacting today is kind of selfish.
You see, I'm a content writer in the Internet marketing niche and I really can't get my work found.
So what I'd like to do is give you -
10 articles that are based on the keywords that I found on your blog
10 videos that I created for those articles
10 MP3s also of those articles
and
one graphic I made you can put on pinterest
all in hopes that you could possibly tell a couple of your friends about me.
It's all done here waiting for you just let me know how you want them delivered
thanks
Art
PS. I hope these 31 pieces of content can help you out and I thank you in advance."

You are writer aren't you?
So 10 articles shouldn't be that hard.
The research videos and audios - are all just "thud factor". They are there to bulk up the value.
If you can't make videos then scratch that part and substitute something else.
The same for the MP3s

But you get the point - people here on the warrior forum are pretty straight shooters.
Nobody's here to hurt you.
You can be creating articles anyway so why not give some away free and build goodwill for yourself.

Go and give that a try and let me know how it works
thanks
Art

I got my start in the Warriors for Hire section- and I made over $200 in the first week.

Use that money to keep funding bumps, and soon you'll have more clients than you can handle...

IF you deliver quality writing at a reasonable (NOT cheap) price.

If you can improve your writing to a 4 star writer, your wages - and choice of articles - in textbroker will improve. 5 star would be even better, but is rather elusive. 4 star isn't too tough a goal, and if you want to keep writing for textbroker it would help you out.

I am little bit confuse about thread because how it is possible that if we write anything then client approach to us without reviewing our website and works.

You can look for your prospect too. Apply for the job, and show them what you have got, show them you previous works. And remember to be consistent and never give up, you will soon get 1, then 2, then 5.. when you have more, there are a lot more coming!

Personally I'd create an ezine articles account and post many of your articles there. Ezine articles is very respected. Then I'd post a $20 ad here at Warrior Forums and link back to your ezine articles site to show off samples of your work.

I'm sure everyone else here has already given excellent advice, but I figured I throw my two cents in. Have you tried straight out cold calling clients? It may seem daunting but I know for a fact that it works because I've hired people who have called me.

To make $100 per day charging $0.01 per word means you need to write 10,000 words or roughly 25 pages based on 400 words per page. Assuming you work 10 hours a day, you would be writing 2.5 pages every hour. That's a lot to me.

Think about it this way. To write, let's say, a 400-word product review, you need to read up what the product is about, go to the manufacturer's site for a more in-depth description and check out customer reviews on different sites. Can you do all that and come up with a good review in 30 minutes? For my own sites, I usually end up spending an hour or more.

Basically, I don't think you can maintain quality churning out articles at that pace. That is why I find it hard putting in a bid at freelance sites whereby the majority of clients do not pay that well. I keep thinking that if I have to compromise on quality to meet a certain monetary target everyday, I might as well look for alternatives.