1. Develop a website with an overview of your services, experience, resume, education and links to your articles written online.
See previous article titled: A Working Writer’s
Website: Publish, Promote and Profit?
2. Write articles and then offer them to publishers for free See previous article titled: Top Ten Reasons to Write Articles for Free Publication Online
3. Create a signature file to include at the end of every email message you send.
Here’s mine for example:
Take Care & Keep Writing!
Danielle Hollister – BellaOnline Writing Host
Email – [email protected]
Site – http://writing.bellaonline.com
Zine Online – http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art157.asp
4. Subscribe to a Discussion List for Writing and post messages about your work on the web and/or respond to others’ postings using your signature file.
See previous articles titled: What’s The Deal With Discussion Lists For Writers
5. Advertise your services using Free classified boards for writers.
Below are a few examples of websites that offer this opportunity online:
Writers Only FREE Classifieds
http://www.pifmagazine.com/writers_only/
1st Step to Get Published – for writers, agents and publishers
http://www.rosedog.com/classifieds.asp
Artist Resource – Seeking Jobs
http://www.artistresource.org/jobs.htm#Seeking
6. Submit the URLs of your personal website and/or pages where your work is published to search engines and online directories.
You will find a good list on this page – http://www.allsearchengines.com/ and you can submit your site to several search
engines and directories from this page – http://www.add-url.net/
7. Sign up for ezines/newsletters that offer free advertisements to subscribers.
You can get some helpful links to directories online at this website – http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art12836.asp
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