How to Become a Freelance Writer in 2021!!

Following are the six steps you need to follow to become a successful freelance writer

so if you're curious about starting your career as a freelance writer online and you want to start making money from those writing skills.....this blog is just for you..... 

 The First Step:

                         That you need to master to become a successful freelance writer has to do with your niche 

  so if you've been around on this BLOG for a while you will know that I hop on about niching them down whether you want to be a freelance writer or anything else in the business having a niche is super important so, 

                                                   What is a niche?

               A niche is usually the problem that you solve or a segment of the market that you help so when it comes to freelance writing it will look a bit like this maybe you are

        A Travel Writer or

        You are a B2B Tech Writer or

        You help Real Estate Companies 

                                                           with their content marketing that is one way you can niche down by the industry that you are writing content  for

                                                              Another way that you can do it is the type of writing that you do....for example maybe you are a case study writer or a white papers writer or you help people with their sales pages these are different ways that you can take the whole market of freedom's writing and really funnel it down to a small group of people that you help with your content marketing services 

  The Second Step:

                                is that you need to create a professional website. 

It is important... you need a website as a freelance writer but you really do it will honestly change the game for you because it makes you look more professional it also helps you position yourself as an expert for your niche and it just gives you a place to host your services and your portfolio in one place so what you want to do on your freelance writing website is that you want to make sure that on your home page above the fold which is that a portion of the page that people see immediately as soon as the page loads you want to have your niche the statement there so for example if you are a b2b tech writer you want to have something along the lines of hi my name is ----- I am a B2B TechWriter or I help you to be Tech companies with their content marketing something like that that is going to tell whoever lands on your website that they are in the right place and another important thing that you want to make sure is on your website is your testimonials your social proof the results that other people have had from working with you now if you are a completely new freelance writer and you haven't had any clients before and you have none of this super valuable social proof there are two things that you can do   Number one 

                      is that you can create niche-specific samples and host them on your portfolio site so for example if you wanted to become a CBD content writer like me you would go and write an article about CBD and then post it on your website and then share that link with potential clients when you are pitching your services 

 Number two 

                      is that you can work for free so what you can do is that you can approach your ideal clients and offer to work for free for a short amount of time so long enough for you to actually get a decent testimonial from them but you also don't want to be working for free for too long so maybe it is that you're only going to write like I don't know two blog posts for free for them and then you can transition them onto a paid model if they are happy with your work

The Third Step: The pitching.. it is a very very important skill as a freelancer to know how to pitch your services because it is something that you are going to be doing constantly whether you are replying to job ads whether you are replying to job board ads or you are cold emailing potential clients or maybe you are trying to pitch yourself for a guest post on a site like ProBlogger you really need to know how to sell yourself and your expertise ...

It is super important that you have the skill in your toolkit so that you can close those leads and start making money as a freelance writer. 

Step number four:

                               that you want to make sure you are doing as a new freelance writer is that you have optimized your links in your profile so what you want to do is you want to go onto your Linkedin profile and you want to make sure that you have your freelancing writing niche in your headline and you can also include a few additional keywords like a content marketer or content strategist or blogger anything like that because Linkedin is a super searchable platform like people are typing in those keywords all the times into the search bar so you want to make sure that your profile comes up with all those keywords that are related to your freelancing business 

next you want to add more keywords that are related to what you do in your about section so as a freelance writer you might have things like blogging or byline blogging or ghostwriting anything like that you also want to make sure that you've reiterated your niche in that about section and lastly you want to include your best testimonials and results in that about section so that you really drive home that point that you are an expert in your freelance writing niche and then a few other things that you want to make sure that you are doing on Linkedin as a freelance writer is that you are connecting with marketing managers because those are usually, the people that are going to be hiring freelance writers so you want to make sure that you are connecting with those people and make sure that they are in your the niche you want to be super relevant so that you stand out to them and really start nurturing that relationship with them and then lastly you can also use links in publisher to your advantage so for example, if you were a CBD writer you could potentially publish a Linkedin post like three mistakes CBD companies are making with their content marketing and that is a way for you to then attract leads to your Linkedin profile and they would see automatically that your headline says that you specialize in content marketing for the CBD industry they're gonna click on your website and then again they're gonna see that the headline that says I am a CBD writer so that is what's going to establish you as an expert and it's going to make it much easier for you to get that lead and get hired at the end of the day.