Make Friends And Make Business
The more natural you are at making friends without asking for something back in return, the better your business will be. I’ve figured this out all on my own…imagine that! HA HA HA HA HA!
Anyway, this advice is for all those aspiring web content writers out there who have been sending me emails and asking me for advice on how to become a web content writer on the internet and free themselves from the need to look for employment so that they can lead a more fulfilling life, etc.
Well, let me clear something up here. Even when you’re a freelance web content writer, there’s no GUARANTEE that you’ll live a more fulfilling life.
But the chances are higher compared to when you’re employed, of course.
Today’s advice about being a freelance web content writer is this…make friends freely, often and be genuine. Everywhere you go, online and offline, be nice. When you’re nice to people, they like you and when they do, they ask what you do (cue: tell them that you’re a freelance web content writer), and they’ll remember.
Out of the one-hundred people you tell about your freelance web content writer business, ten will probably remember you. Two of them might have immediate business for you, three are thinking about it. There you have five people thinking about hiring you as their freelance web content writer.
The other five have your name written at the back of their minds…they probably remember you more for your nice behavior and friendliness than your catchy phrases about being a writer…but it’s there.
Somewhere down the road, two of the remaining five might have something for you, and BING! Your name crops up.
This is one of the best ways to break it into the freelance web content writing business.
Ben, this is for you since you’re the last to ask this question.
Cheers!
Love,
Marsha M
The widardrette of words @ freelance writer by choice
October 4th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Well! It’s so simple that it just might work! Thanks for being prompt, and so blunt. This advice is just so obvious, that I’m sure it would be overlooked by many (including me) through the sheer simplicity.
-Thanks!
October 5th, 2008 at 12:25 am
I assure you, Ben, that it works. Over a period of time, one by one, they’ll soon come to you if you keep doing this time and time again.
Sometimes, the simplest of plans works the best…