The Advantages to Hiring Professional Freelance Writers

There are many advantages to relying upon a professional freelance writer to provide you with dynamic content for your business.

1. Professional freelance writers have the expertise to create vibrant articles and content for use in a variety of business purposes.

2. Choosing to outsource your businesses content needs to professional freelance writers is an important step in managing your time and resources well for success.

3. The dynamic content for your business website that a professional freelance writer can skillfully put together for you will boost its page ranking assigned by search engines.

4. Search engine optimized articles and content is highly attractive to the search robots that crawl websites for indexing. Most professional freelance writers who write articles and content for the web have a great deal of experience with SEO.

5. Business websites that provide visitors with educational, enlightening, entertaining, and engaging webpage content, articles, and interactive features, have higher traffic streaming to them and higher conversions of traffic into customers. A professional freelance writer can provide you and your business with the content materials needed to make this happen.

6. Professional freelance writers create persuasive and cleverly worded articles and advertising materials that can be powerful call-to-action incentives for drawing in new customers for your business.

7. Well-researched articles and other content materials can help you to foster strong business relationships with your customers. Professional freelance writers have honed their researching skills in order to be successful in the very competitive realm of freelance writing.

8. Highly interactive and interesting newsletters created by professional freelance writers can help businesses to grow multiple customer bases and to build profitable opt-in lists.

9. Outsourcing to a professional freelance writer is more affordable than delegating the task of constructing various polished content materials for your business to an employee.

10. You can grow your business and encourage more sales and profits through the premium writing services that professional freelance writers can offer to business owners.

There you have it. Ten compelling reasons to consider contracting with a professional freelance writer, or several writers to provide you and your business with superior content to help you accomplish your goals of great success in business. Take advantage of all that professional freelance writers have to offer by enlisting their aid in helping to raise your business to new heights today. ((I am always accepting new clients and have a team of writers ready to work with me on larger writing projects. Send your content requests to the writers at The Write Station, via our email address. twsstaff@yahoo.com ))

Freelance Writers and Blogs

Having your own blog, or even several blogs, offers many advantages to freelance writers. However, they can also be detrimental to a freelance writing career if you are not careful. What are some of the advantages to having your own blog, or blogging as a guest in other blogs frequently?

•They can help freelance writers to create and maintain a powerful internet presence.

• Blogs can help freelance writers to display their writing talents to the world and to establish themselves as experts on the subjects they blog about.

•An RSS Feed from your blog can help build readership.

• Your blog can be used to market and sell your e-books and writing services to readers.

•You can point prospective clients to your blog(s) to view your writing style on various subjects when they request samples of your writing.

•With your own blog, you have more creative writing freedom than when you are writing articles and other content for clients.

• Blogging as a guest in other blogs helps build recognition of your name, skills, and knowledge as a freelance writer on different subjects among a broader audience, and you can link your comments back to your own blog, to generate more traffic for your blog.

• Your blog can create an extra stream of income for you and there are blogs that will pay you for making dally, weekly, or monthly blog entries on a wide variety of subjects, for even more income potential.

What are some of the disadvantages to a blog and blogging, which can be detrimental to a freelance writing career?

• Blogging on controversial subjects could be a turn off to some prospective clients.

• Once you have blogged about something, it will be permanently available for others to see. Even deleting blog posts and comments will not ensure that search engines have not already cached them for displaying in search result windows.

•When promoting yourself as a freelance writer through a blog you have to check and then double and triple-check every sentence for proper grammar usage and spelling, to make sure it is free from errors. Someone who has a blog for fun or as a hobby might get away with sloppy blog postings, with freelance writers on the other hand, polished copy, even in blogs, is an expectation you must accept and meet for success as a writer.

•When you blog as a guest in other blogs that permit or write their own questionable content, you run the risk of readers associating you with those blogs and the negative or offensive content they contain. You should read blogs thoroughly before sending entries to blog owners for posting, or leaving comments to them, in order to make sure they best represent you as a freelance writer, and the image of yourself that you want to project to the world.

• Keeping up with a single blog so that you are providing readers with a constant flow of fresh and interesting content to view is not easy. Add multiple blogs to the mix can make it even harder to maintain blogs readers will be enticed into visiting often.

•Some blog entries might be better turned into full-blown articles, and put up for sale to earn you money, rather than used as posts for your blog. Although, it is possible to use snippets from blog posts to enhance articles you write and offer for sale.

• Promoting your blog to increase readership can require a lot of your time and effort.

Overall, I think blogs are great tools for freelance writers to present their writing skills to clients and others in the favorable light that the popularity of blogs presents. It also gives writers another outlet for expressing the creativity that drives them as writers. I would only caution writers to be sure that they want others to see and read something that they have written before permanently placing it into cyber-space for all time to come.

Crossword Puzzle for Writers

If you are a fan of crossword puzzles, you are welcome to "copy and paste" this one into your word or document program, and them print it out and have fun! I am sorry that all the rows are not lining up perfectly...maybe I can do better next time. LOL

D A O W N E D I T O R T H S W T R
Y Z E A N L U Y R A B S G T X P O
J R M R M A N Y E P B I K O J I A
I K A J E Q G H A J O N Q H I R B
M L N J Q V R W D A O O D R N C H
O S N F M H I I E H K G S O T S O
S Y E J D Y N E R S P A E W N U X
C M P U A K P X W S M T I C E N J
R R E T I R W T E N Q O T O G A F
I C K N X J C J Y A W R L R A M D
P R O H T U A U A F F P A E H H F
T A N T A G O N I S T H Y H Q V Z
T Q S C R E E N P B D X O R S V Z
V V C X Y H S I L B U P R E X X C
Y Y Q K Y O S N V S N O V U Z Z L
Q S I L L U S T R A T I O N P S K
B C S T O R Y B O A R D M S L L P

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Agent
Manuscript
Screen
Antagonist
Net Writer
Script
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Penname
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Book
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Editor
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Research-Reference Sites for Writers

Net writers and other writers need quality resources where they can find researched and catalogued information and facts on various subjects to aid them in creating high quality, and polished written works. I am providing in this post links to some of the sites I use to find reliable information and reference materials when I am conducting research on subjects I am not very familiar with, to get a better understanding of them before I begin writing about them.

It should already be understood what the intended use for these sites is, but just in case there is any doubt, let me put it to you in clear terms here and now. These researched and catalogued sites provide information and facts that writers can glean further understanding from on a wide variety of subjects they want to write about but are not well versed in themselves. The information and facts that you find through such useful sites are not there for you to copy or copy and paste into the documents that you are working on. That would be stealing and an infringement on the copyright laws protecting the original authors of the materials found on research and reference sites.

Now that we have gotten the legal and ethical use of the many online research sites writers can use to familiarize themselves with a huge array of subjects out of the way, here are the five research sites that I use the most, in random order. I will admit though that I use numbers (1 and 5) more frequently than the rest of those on my list. Yep, you will have to keep reading or scroll down, to find out what the two research sites I use most are.




!. http://www.about.com/ Scores of articles on many different subjects found here.

2. http://www.ehow.com/ Many articles on a vast array of subjects in a how-to format

3. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Plenty of useful articles various subjects outlining how that stuff works

4. http://www.webmd.com/ Useful informational articles on medical conditions, treatments, medicines and side effects, and health tips

5. http://www.wikipedia.com/ Find informational user-developed articles on almost every subject you can imagine, and even some you have never thought of


If you know of some more useful research-reference sites writers may want to visit to look for reliable reference materials to help them in their writing, please share them in this thread Thanks.