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Business Communications Freelance Writing

Freelance Writing For Beginners

Learn the essentials of freelance writing. Learn to find work, get good clients, and work doing what you love!
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (81 ratings)
820 students
Created by Laura Brown
Last updated 3/2015
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Learn the three characteristics of top freelance writers
  • Create a website that shows you off as a professional and gets you work
  • Get good clips that show off your talents and experience--even if you've never written professionally before
  • Understand the whole freelance writing market and where you fit in
  • Look for freelance work in the right places
  • Avoid lousy jobs that pay nothing and destroy your soul
  • Get paid for the work you do
  • Forge great relationships with clients and get repeat business
  • Become an elite writer who commands the highest rates

Requirements

  • All you need is a computer and an Internet connection!

Description

Most freelance writers fail--don't be one of them! I've been a successful freelance writer in New York for nearly 30 years, and in this course I'll share with you what I've learned—what works, what doesn't, and how to succeed.

Average freelance writers are almost always hustling for work and taking on bad-paying jobs to make ends meet. Increasingly, writers are being asked to work for free or for slave wages. By contrast, the top freelance writers comfortably make six-figure incomes year in and year out—I'll show you how.

You'll learn:


1. If you have what it takes to make it as a top freelance writer--don't waste your time if you don't!

2. How to set up a simple website that marks you as a professional in your field and gives prospective clients the information they need to hire you.

3. How to get those all-important clips for your portfolio that let clients know you can do the job--even if you don't have any professional writing experience.

4. How to find your niche in the market. Successful freelancers are experts in one or more niches. You must find yours. If you promote yourself as someone who can "write anything" you'll fail.

5. How to get your first freelance writing jobs.

6. How to find writing jobs online.

7. How to avoid the trap of content mills that want you to write for free or for slave wages--you're a professional, and you should be paid like one!

8. How to forge great relationships with clients so that your jobs go smoothly and you get repeat business.

9. How to avoid deadbeat clients who don't pay, and how to ensure you get paid fairly and quickly.

10. How to develop yourself throughout your career and grow into an expert whose services clients compete for.

If you're looking to get rich quick, this isn't the course for you. If you have talent as a writer, if you're willing to follow the advice in this course, and if you take your career seriously, this course will help you skip over all the beginner mistakes and start off on the right foot as a well-paid professional.

Don't waste any more time struggling! Click the “take this course" button on the top right of your screen, and get started on a lucrative professional writing career now.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone who wants a career as a successful freelance writer. Absolute beginners are welcome, as well as freelancers who already have experience under their belts.

Course content

3 sections • 12 lectures • 2h 16m total length

  • Welcome!
    03:45
  • Do You Have What it Takes?
    06:37
  • Preview17:17
  • Understanding the Market--Types of Freelance Writing Jobs
    14:47
  • Understanding the Market Part 2--More Job Opportunities!
    06:33

  • How to Get Clips for Your Portfolio
    11:39
  • Your Website
    11:24
  • How to Get Work as a Freelance Writer, Part 1
    08:52
  • How to Get Work as a Freelance Writer, Part 2
    09:38

  • Working Productively with Your Clients
    16:03
  • Preview18:17
  • Always Be Improving!
    11:30

Instructor

Laura Brown
#1 Bestselling Author of "How to Write Anything"
Laura  Brown
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 107 Reviews
  • 1,608 Students
  • 2 Courses

Laura Brown, PhD, is the author of the Amazon #1 bestseller How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide (W. W. Norton, 2014). Laura has been a writer, writing trainer, coach, and teacher for nearly 30 years and has taught writing to all kinds of people--from corporate executives to high school and college students to creative writers. She taught writing at Columbia University and Iona College, and her corporate clients have included AOL Time Warner, Booz Allen Hamilton, Citigroup, DHL, McKinsey & Company, and the Wharton School of Business, among many others. Laura holds an MA in Drama from the University of London and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.

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