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Are you a new freelance writer who’s worrying about the competition? Relax. To all intents and purposes, your only competition is with yourself. You’re unique, and so are your clients: you just need to find the perfect clients for YOU.

Here are four steps to boosting your freelance writing income, and beating your “competition.”

Enjoy.

“3. Develop Your Writing Skills: Spend Time Learning Every Day” is especially applicable to your work with Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) — at the end of your Web writing training, you’ll have great writing skills, and these translate to money.

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Here are some tips to turn you into a bidding dynamo.

1. Give a Detailed Proposal After You’ve Communicated With the Buyer

Avoid making your bid proposals too detailed until you’ve communicated with the buyer. Some “buyers” are just lookers, rather than serious buyers of your writing. Write a short proposal, asking the buyer to contact you for the details.

Once you’ve made sure that the buyer is legitimate, give a more detailed proposal, but not too detailed. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that some unscrupulous buyers will take the scope you’ve written, and hand it to a cheaper writer.

2. Quote a Project Rate

Rather than quoting an hourly rate, give a range. For example, if you’re bidding on an ebook, you might quote a range of $1500-$3000, depending on how much research is required. The lower end of the range would apply if the buyer supplies your research material.

(If you’re a fast writer, you can always make more money when you bid with the project fee rather than an hourly rate.)

If you are totally new to bidding on projects, however, you must bid via hourly rates until you get a sense of how quickly you can write certain types of projects. For example if you’re an experienced writer, you should be able to write at least two Web articles within an hour. When you’re new, you’ll take longer, and this is fine. Practice makes you faster; your speed will increase with time.

3. Ask Questions

Asking questions will help you to tailor your bid. I once had the unfortunate experience of quoting a fee for a writing job without reading the project brief with complete attention. I ended up doing three times the amount of work I’d expected to do; my income was shot for that week.

Never feel you’re being silly when you ask for a clarification. Your buyer wants you to do a good job, and you can only do a good job when you have complete information.

4. Once a Client Has Accepted Your Bid, It’s Time to Negotiate

Unfortunately some clients have a habit of loading extras onto you once they’ve accepted your bid, so make sure that you charge for any extras. If however you feel that client is being unreasonable and is trying to take advantage of you, you can always politely back out of the project.

5. Ignore the Other Bidders

It’s fatal to assume that just because everybody else bids low for project, that the lowest bidder will win. This is rarely the case. Always bid a project rate that you are comfortable with, you’ll be surprised at how many bids you win. Genuine buyers want good, reliable writers because they know that the “cheap” writers will cost them money because they either won’t complete the project, or the work will be sub-standard.

If you’re looking for writing jobs, the outsourcing sites are your happy hunting ground. Turn yourself into a bidding dynamo, and you’ll land all the writing jobs you can handle.

Want more help on acing the outsourcing sites? In Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON), we cover winning bids for writing jobs in the first couple of weeks of the training — discover how YOU can become a bidding dynamo, and win more bids at great rates.

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I developed Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) training so that anyone who enjoys writing can create his own home business based on writing in the shortest time possible.

If you love to write, you can stay at home writing — no more long commutes — and watch your business grow month by one.

One of the big benefits of Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) training is the fact that you get ongoing coaching and support. I’m not aware of any other online course where you can have any question answered, usually within hours. and can ASK if you need a hand.

One of the comments people make when they hear about the training is that it seems too good to be true. This is very amusing; I’m sure that if you’re already a subscriber you’re chuckling right now. There are unlimited ways you can make money online by writing, BUT you need to be shown how. It’s the how that is important. Once you know how, you can parlay that your knowledge in any way you wish.

You have questions about SYWON training? Feel free to ask.

As one subscriber said, “Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) is the best thing I have found anywhere. I am up to lesson 9 and really underway. If I had found this earlier, I would have saved myself a lot of money, time and frustration.”

I’m proud of all SYWON subscribers and I’d love a chance to be proud of you too, when you set up your own home business, and start living the life that you choose.

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Here are three easy steps to make quick money from your writing and quit your day job within a few weeks — a writer I know used this method and had so many  writing jobs lined up that he quit his job after three days.

1. Get Your First Testimonial for Your Writing

The people who hire you to write want to know that you CAN write. You’d be amazed at the number of “writers” who take people’s money and run. Therefore, your very first step must be to get at least one testimonial for your writing.

This testimonial should include some way to contact the person who’s given you the testimonial: a Web address, an email address, or a phone number. In other words, this testimonial must be genuine.

There are various ways to get your first testimonial. One way that works is to create a listing for your writing service on eBay, with a BIN (Buy It Now) option. If you’re familiar with eBay, and have good feedback, you can leverage this to sell your writing services.

Another way that works to get your first testimonial is to advertise on Craigslist, although this takes more time, because you need to create several unique ads.

Here’s a third way that works. This method is fast and simple, and I’ve no idea why more new writers don’t use it. Just contact a professional writer who has a blog, and offer to write a guest post. You’ll be writing for free, in exchange for a testimonial. If you’re a reasonable writer, it shouldn’t take you longer that an hour to write the guest post, and you have your testimonial.

2. Leverage Your Testimonial in Your Signature File on Forums

Now you have a testimonial, you can leverage it. Here’s how: visit forums where people who buy writing hang out. These are forums for webmasters and  Internet marketers. (Avoid writers’ forums; they can’t hire you.) Join a couple of busy forums and start interacting with others.

Your signature (the blurb at the bottom of your forum posts) must contain a snippet from your testimonial.

Like so: 

Betsy Anne Newwriter, Article Writer and Blogger

A comment on my writing: “Betsy Anne’s fast and reliable: a pleasure to work with” — hire me today to help you to build your business with my writing skills.

Be professional and courteous in all your interactions on a forum: don’t spam, just become a part of the forum, and people will hire you.

3. Offer Something More: Become an Expert

Now you’re getting writing jobs, it’s time to specialize. As a specialist, you can charge more, and you’ll be hired by clients who have larger businesses with writers on retainer.

So there you have it: three steps to make quick money writing and quit your day job. Have fun, and enjoy writing: you’ll agree it’s the best “job” you’ve ever had.

Discover real world testimonials from Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscribers, who are making money writing and loving it.

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