Apr 23

Are you using these for your writing career?

Marketing, Web 2.0 Tactics, Writing general, blogs, productivity Comments Off

Hi from SueC here at Six Figure Writing! As a new reader, be sure to subscribe to my email list, and my RSS feed to get the most out of SFW. Thanks for stopping by!

Yesterday’s interview with C. Hope Clark of Funds For Writers was really great - she definitely has her finger on the pulse of inside information about finding freelance and full time writing jobs, grants, contests and more. I’ll be posting a free link to the full transcript later this week, if you want to make sure you get a copy, sign up for my list on the right, to get notified when it’s released.

While Hope publishes places writers can find work, it was also interesting to hear her stress that writers MUST take advantage of the technology on the Web to market and promote their work! Writers traditionally are not considered the best “sales people” - how many writers just cringe when they even hear that term?

Yet you aren’t very likely to get to six figures unless you learn how to promote and, yes, SELL, both yourself as a writer, and your work, regardless of market or genre. I am going to be pulling out the stops in the next couple weeks and beyond, to bring you some killer tools to help you promote your self and your career. It’s about exposure, and making yourself visible so publishers, agents, and clients can find YOU instead of just the other way around. So let’s just get started with this open ended question: Taking a look over your current online promotion and outreach, do you use any/all of these tools?

  • Blog(s)
  • Newsletter
  • Email Marketing
  • Free giveaways/reports/samples
  • Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn?
  • Web site that is content-rich, and cross-linked EVERYWHERE
  • Forum memberships/frequent posting to forums, discussion sites
  • Any of the zillions of tools, widgets, apps out there to help you build a presence efficiently

… and if you are, are you using them to their fullest potential to get yourself and your stuff out there?

Tags: blogging, freelance writing, Marketing, promotion

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