Freelance
Writers' Series
Career & Business
Development Help
How to Convince Clients That You’re the Right Writer for the
Job
Whether it’s
the, “I didn’t know what they meant by that,” in response to a
client query, or “What should I charge for this job,” in putting
together a proposal, the underlying problem is not a lack of knowledge
or the price that should be charged, it’s the lack of confidence of
the freelance writer. If You Don’t Think You’re Right
Writer
for the Job, Why Should the
Client? Confidence is a
must as a freelance writer. You’ll not only need it as for as your
writing ability is concerned, but you’ll need it to price jobs, to go
after assignments you may not be “qualified for”, to say NO to jobs
that pay too little, to stand up to other freelance writers who wonder
why you charge X. If you’re
going to convince clients that you’re the right freelance writer for
the job, you must believe that you are. To that end, following are three
things you can do to start building confidence as a freelance writer. 3 Things You Can Do to Building
confidence as a freelance writer, like anything worth having in life,
takes practice. It’s not going to come and stay with you. You’re
going to have to actively work to hold onto it until it becomes second
nature. 1. Recognize:
The first thing you need to do as a freelance writer is recognize the
problem for what it is. As any shrink will tell you (and of course, I don’t speak from first-hand experience), the first step in
conquering any problem is to recognize that it exists. 2. Problem: After you realize that what you have is a freelance writer
confidence problem and not a “pricing or knowledge” problem, is to
figure out what is undermining your confidence. Your lack of confidence
is only a symptom of a deeper problem.
I
had one student in my freelance writing course tell me recently that all
of her life she’d been told by family members that she couldn’t do
“x”. She’d written in to me saying that she was having
problems with some of the lessons in the freelance writing course. *** New Ebook:
How
to Find Unpublished Freelance Writing Jobs.**
Freelance
writing is a career where you’re the one in charge. And, this
terrifies a lot of wannabe freelance writers. They want easy, pat
answers– and like life – it just isn’t that simple. If you want a career where you will be told what to do, when, how and by whom, freelance writing ain’t it. But, if you want the freedom to work from home, control how much you make and
Sincerely,
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