Increase Your Freelance Sales With an Online Resume

Written by Kelly Kyrik


Freelancing is a competitive business, especially in today’s fast-paced, e-focused world.

Often there are hundreds of writers competing forrepparttar same, limited number of assignments, andrepparttar 132644 writer who can best showcase his or her abilities isrepparttar 132645 one who landsrepparttar 132646 job.

Editors, however, are very busy people, and don’t haverepparttar 132647 time norrepparttar 132648 inclination to sift throughrepparttar 132649 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 ofrepparttar 132650 mouse, that plum assignment is going to go torepparttar 132651 writer who managed to catchrepparttar 132652 editor’s eye; even if you’rerepparttar 132653 better writer forrepparttar 132654 job.

So, how do you get your writing clips intorepparttar 132655 hands ofrepparttar 132656 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 onrepparttar 132657 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

An editor is then able to access all of your information at once, instead of being forced to slog through link after link looking for work that is spread out over twelve different sites, six of which no longer exist. With everything in one place, an editor is also more able to get a feel for your abilities and range.

Why You Need A Web Site

Written by Edward Robirds


Why You Need a Web Site

"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 overrepparttar 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 overrepparttar 132643 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 atrepparttar 132644 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,repparttar 132645 products and services you have to offer, as well as how to contact you.

But Can I Afford a Web Site?

Givenrepparttar 132646 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.

So whatever time or money you currently spend on marketing, supplementing it with a web site is probably a good idea. Your site will help you expand geographically and compete on a much larger scale.

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