Often there are hundreds of writers competing for same, limited number of assignments, and writer who can best showcase his or her abilities is one who lands job.

Editors, however, are very busy people, and don’t have time nor inclination to sift through hundreds of resumes and clips they receive in search of your information. If your credits and clips are not right there on an editor’s desk, or available with a single click of mouse, that plum assignment is going to go to writer who managed to catch editor’s eye; even if you’re better writer for job.

So, how do you get your writing clips into hands of editors looking for writers? Easy, with your own online resume!

A personal site has become a must for today’s freelancer, but successful writers know that they need to do more than simply paste their picture out on Internet, or send off their email address along with their snail mail query.

What’s needed is a site that showcases your entire writing resume, including:

Bio Publishing history Writing-related job history All published credits Specialty or genre Easily accessible and visually attractive clips, whether scanned or in document form

"I have a small business with just a couple of employees and I don’t think my product can really be sold online. Do I need a web site?"

In this day and time, there is very little that can’t be sold over Internet. There are over 20 million people shopping online, buying everything from movies to cars to real estate property. Research predicts that revenues will be over $200 billion in 2004 and will grow at a rate of 30 to 50 percent over next few years. These numbers alone should be enough to persuade you that you and your business should be online.

Regardless of whether you sell your product online, you should at very least have an online presence so that customers, potential employees, partners and even potential investors can easily and quickly find more information about your company, products and services you have to offer, as well as how to contact you.

But Can I Afford a Web Site?

Given competition and current market trends you can’t afford NOT to. Think of your web site as your new marketing tool which, when applied correctly, will generate a return on investment. Your competition is probably already on-line and you need to use every possible avenue just to keep up. You should look at having a web site as an investment in you and your company’s future.