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Pitching Magazine Editors on Twitter, Plus 80+ Editors on Twitter

Over the past couple of months, I’ve made a point of friending the editors of publications I’d like to write for on Twitter. I’ve landed several assignments through Twitter, including a few where the editor sought me out, rather than the other way around. That’s because Twitter is an ideal tool for building connections: when [...]

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Getting Involved in Social Media: What Should You Be Promoting?

Social networking sites, like LinkedIn and Twitter, offer a huge opportunity to promote yourself and your writing services. But the techniques that a writer can use to promote herself on those sites aren’t quite the same methods that everyone else is using. Promoting Yourself, Not Your Clients Most social media users don’t have much choice [...]

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Day 15: Choose Your Social Networking Sites

Social networking sites can give you a big boost when it comes to marketing your writing services online — but belonging to every new site that pops up means that you’ll never have time to write again. It’s important to be picky about which sites you belong to and how much time you spend on [...]

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Twitter: The Freelance Writer’s New Best Friend — Part Two

In Part One of Twitter: The Freelance Writer’s New Best Friend, I talked about the usefulness of Twitter in finding sources and stories. But what if you’re more focused on finding work? Even if you’ve got a huge stack of story ideas and sources to interview, a writing career isn’t about to go anywhere without [...]

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Twitter: The Freelance Writer’s New Best Friend — Part One

My social networking site of choice is Twitter. I’m active on more than a few other sites, but I keep Twitter open pretty much all the time. I post updates to it regularly — and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s an impressive tool in any writer’s arsenal. Hopefully, you’ve already spent some time [...]

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Socially Networking — Do You Need It?

There are plenty of freelance writers out there who have never logged into to Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn and still do just fine at finding work. I’d never claim otherwise. I would say, however, that those writers probably do their fair share of networking in other ways. You don’t have to be part of online [...]

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