Freelance Writer Tip #10 — Get a Service, Keep a Service
As a freelancer, you want to work with a service. During your endeavors you will learn quite a bit about SEO, how to attract people to your web site, how to find customers, and how to keep them … because you are going to be writing a stack of articles on these topics, many times a year — despite this, your web site isn’t going to be the major point of sales for your own freelancer service.
There is a very good reason for this, which you will learn over the years as well, but I’ll go ahead and let you in on the secret now.
People are not searching for you… or what you do…
If people are not searching for you, then they are not going to find you, no matter how good your content happens to be.
There are other reasons for working through a service as well, even though, it is, at first, a bit intimidating bidding against other writers, who are far more experienced than you are, and having that fact blatantly displayed on your profile (and theirs).
First of all, besides being able to find work, you will get paid for work. Your skills will improve tremendously as a sales writer, and you will be able to see how other writers work, bid, and perform. All of these are very important when you are on your own at home.
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