Online Networking Tips for Beginner Freelance Writers
Posted: October 31, 2017
Starting out as a freelance writer can be difficult, especially for those who don’t have previous connections in the freelance writing industry. Networking is key to growing your career, but how do you even start? Online networking can really pay off if you do it right. Knowing how, and where, to seek out the right types of connections is essential to freelance networking success.
Jennifer Locke, writer for The Write Life, shares tips for online networking for freelance writers.
As a newbie freelancer, you’re told all the time: network, network, network.
Building relationships makes good business sense and can lead to referrals and other opportunities down the road. But how exactly are you supposed to do it?
It’s not like you can schmooze at an office happy hour.
Conferences are wonderful, but they can cost quite a bit of money, which you may not have when you’re just starting out. Heck–maybe you chose freelance writing because you wanted to leave the world of conferences and happy hours behind.
So what does networking look like in such a solitary profession?
Here are five non-awkward networking tips for the newbie freelancer.
1. Seek out role models
When I first started out, I was hungry for success stories. I’d taken the Writeto1K course and sought out writers who had taken the same course and were “making” it.
If you’re part of a particular online community, try connecting with someone a few paces ahead of you whose work and successes you admire. If you’re starting totally from scratch, look for someone in your chosen niche. Whether it’s digital marketing, health, computer gaming, boutique pet food–you name it, someone’s making a killing writing about it.
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