Freelance Writing Jobs for Beginners: How to Get Your First Client | Location Rebel
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- Looking for writing jobs as a total beginner? Don't worry, we've got you covered and in this video we show you 10 ways to land your first client and find freelance writing jobs that help you work from home, make money online, and build a lifestyle business.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1:52 - 1) The most obvious way to get freelance writing clients
3:25 - Shout out to our LRA members who hit big milestones this month!
3:53 - 2) A not so obvious (and effective) way to get clients)
4:41 - 3) A strategic, long term way to get your first client
6:05 - 4) The “Reverse Job Board” Strategy
7:10 - 5) When this works well? It can lead to nearly unlimited work.
9:05 - 6) This effective strategy is the one everyone hates…
10:14 - 7) The best social media platform for finding work
12:04 - 8) I take it back THIS is the most effective social media platform
13:04 - 9) With a little help from my friends…
15:08 - 10) The magic bullet
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About Location Rebel:
For the past 10 years at www.locationrebel.com I've taught people just like you how to build a lifestyle business and become a digital nomad. There are a lot of ways we do this depending on your goals, skills and interests, but some of the most common businesses are built around freelance writing, niche sites, affiliate marketing and blogging.
Our primary goal is to help you get to the point where you're making $3-5k a month as quickly as possible, because after that? You have options.
My name is Sean Ogle, and I'm the founder of Location Rebel. I'm a location independent entrepreneur from Portland, Oregon and I travel 3-4 months out of the year and take my business with me wherever I go. On this channel you'll learn exactly how to build a similar business and do it from some pretty sweet destinations as well.
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ALL of the links mentioned in the video (and a lot more) are found here: www.locationrebel.com/freelance-writing-jobs-for-beginners
There are some good tips here. I would also add for beginner writers: 1: If you don't have a portfolio, craft some high quality demonstration articles that show your skills as a writer (you have to have samples). 2: Prepare a great cover letter that is concise but demonstrates your real added value that you can offer to a company. 3: One last thing, that I've done when pitching a start-up that already has content, or a business with just some old blog posts, is that I take a portion of what I consider to be content that is not very high quality, and I re-write it and send the new piece to show what the difference would be if they hired me. This is really proactive.
Gabriel - Content Writer
That last one is a really great tip! It makes it very personal to their business, and also lets them see your skill and style, as well.
Thank you Sean and Liz Froment for putting together the blog post and your video.
Thank you so much for this! I started freelance writing in February 2022, and it has been so full of ups and downs. These tips are very helpful and even uplifting since I come from a conservative family and every time my income drops, I instantly start to contemplate if leaving my job was the right thing to do!
Loved it, Sean! SO helpful!!
Sean, I just found your you tube channel this last weekend. So far, you are the most fun person to listen to and watch on you tube. I used to live on 185 avenue in Portland but moved to Vancouver WA now. Thank you for your amazing and helpful content. I'm also going to check Location Rebel. Go Portland.
Thank you!! I am so excited to get started 😊
I really like how you focus on being genuine and personable with any buisness/ life dealing. Quality over quantity of relationships. It's refreshing seeing those traits bring others success and motivating as well. Thanks for the content and what you're doing 😁.
you're the man! thankyou amazing stuff!
Amazing😍😍😍 Thank youuu so much for this video 🤗🤗
Absolutely brilliant!
Thank you. This was incredible!
Thank you so much! I truly appreciate your wisdom and attitude.
Great stuff
Great videos. I found it surprisingly easy to land the first client. The hard part was when I realized I didn't actually know how to write! But that's what books and practice are for.
Practice is everything! So much of it comes down to tip #10: write more.
I love that you took action! Only way to start is to start.
@@LocationRebel Thanks again. I've learned so much from your videos.
Something I haven't been sure about; if I ghostwrite a piece and it's published on a site, am I allowed to include it in my portfolio, or is it useless because my name isn't on it?
Hey Sean, great video, action packed value as always. Listened to it on my way to the day job in 5am darkness reinforcing the reasons for making a change. LR is awesome!
This is what I like to hear!! Thanks so much for the comment and catch up more soon.
What questions do you have about landing your first freelance writing client?
Location Rebel is it possible to start out freelance writing without having a website? For example using Wordpress for blog posts and writing samples and reaching out to clients until I have some disposable income to get hosting and website started. Thanks Sean great video as always! And thank you for sending me the email that linked me to this video I appreciate it.
Please can you make a video or blog post on how to do extensive research for blog posts and white papers when starting out as a freelance writer.
Sean, the website is my biggest stumbling block. Help! By the way nice video.
Pretty much all of this could also apply to freelance video editing too!
TheAndySan 100%! Most of it can be applied to any kind of freelancing.
@@LocationRebel - Absolutely! And I've been looking for some new clients too!
Woah, you're the editor for tkyosam! Didn't expect to see you here. I'm a fan, good luck with your future freelancing endeavors.
What is the one place you say to get noticed, SLS, FLF what? Didn't understand the letters.
If I would have a WordPress website showing my work samples how I get paid? Is wordpress designed to conduct transaction or do I need to put my PayPal account on it for me to get paid by a client?
Hi Sean, thanks for the informative video. Just noticed you spelt your website name incorrectly with double "L" in the first link of your description and the link is broken. I guess this is a typo. Do correct it.
Thanks for the heads up Ayo! All fixed now!
I sent out about 500 pitches in last 5 months and got only 2 clients. Is it the norm?
No links below in here. Where do I go to see the links below that you mention?
Sorry I put it all on one blog post and I guess it was easy to miss in the description. Everything can be found here: www.locationrebel.com/freelance-writing-jobs-for-beginners
So if am a total beginner, just starting out would I have to create a WordPress website showing my portfolio? Or I just need samples of my work in Microsoft word format?
From my research PDF's are acceptable when sharing samples with potential clients.
What's the difference between a blog post and an article? Just curious.
In most cases there isnt one, the terms can be used interchangeably. With some freelance work you might find clients refer to it as one or the other, but generally same structure.
I would add, the more you write and PUBLISH, the more you get noticed.
Laughing, cause living in Bali is actually the plan after quitting my job. LMAO