One of the easiest ways to land freelance writing jobs is to be a one stop freelance writing shop. The following are three services that freelance writers can offer their clients that will make it easy for them to use you again and again. Some are caused by the new media economy; others are mere conveniences that customers wish they had someone to handle.
3 Services Freelance Writers Can Offer to Win Long-Term Clients
Social Media Marketing: manage a Twitter account. Do you use the social networking site Twitter? If not, you should do it as a freelance writer. Why? Because it’s quick and easy to set up, and you can offer to set up and manage the account for customers.
When freelance writing jobs slow down, offering an edge service like social media marketing can pick up the slack. Customers like it because most of them know that they should get involved in social media marketing, but have no idea how to do it.
Twitter is the perfect social networking site to offer to set up and monitor why you “Tweet” in 140 characters (not words, characters) or less, which takes seconds, not minutes.
Clients will be very appreciative and you will have added another source of income to your freelance writing efforts.
Blogging: set up a WordPress blog. One of the biggest types of freelance writing jobs to appear in recent years is blogging. Most freelance writer blogs. And, many of them do it in WordPress. However, many customers are still enslaved by HTML sites. But a WordPress blog is easy to set up and learn to manage.
And if you don’t know how to set it up, you can still offer the service to customers. How? By outsourcing it, usually for less than $100, much less. Just place an ad on a major site like Craigslist. Many web designers scour this site for tasks like creating WordPress blogs.
If you charged the client $150 to set up their WordPress blog and you outsource it to a freelance web designer for $50 or less, that’s a profit of $100 or more.
Online marketing: writing and submitting articles. Article marketing is one of the best free online advertising methods you can use to spread the word about a product/service, drive organic traffic for years to come, build subscriber lists, and convert investors into buyers. And it’s a great service to offer that will get you even more freelance writing jobs.
By explaining how article marketing works, ie by laying out the benefits mentioned above, you can offer the service to customers. In addition to writing the articles, you can offer to set up accounts for them with article directories and submit them manually, for an additional fee. It is hands-off marketing for them that pays big dividends.
No need to worry about landing freelance writing jobs, if you become an all-inclusive freelance writing workshop. Offering services like these puts you on this path.