Written By Loren Woirhaye, January 5th, 2010
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Selling your services as a freelance writer, graphic artist, web designer, programmer, or consultant is a great way to take control of your future. But one word of warning – you’ll never get anywhere near earning a professional-level income freelancing on the cheap – and on the internet, cheap is the price many clients want to pay.
I’d going to share key methods of growing any kind of consulting or freelancing business using the internet to promote your skills – and do it profitably.
Why “paying your dues” and “working your way up” by slaving away for tiny payouts is a load of horse manure – and why you should start saying NO! to the prospective clients who want to hire you for chicken feed.
How to make your name “Google-able”, and why this is important to prospering as a freelancer.
4 key marketing habits 90% of online freelancers don’t have which makes you visible as a provider of skilled services.
Why online freelancing “the obvious way” will trap you in just another version of the rat-race – and why it will mostly yield low-paying clients and dead-end projects.
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Written By Loren Woirhaye, January 4th, 2010
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
Joe Sugarman is one of my favorite copywriters because a) he wrote some books that influenced me a lot and b) I used to read his copy when I was a kid. Sugarman promoted electronic gadgets through space ads running in magazines like Popular Mechanics in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The technology of microprocessors was undergoing revolutionary upgrades every few months in those days – and the digital watches, calculators and primitive personal computers of the day seemed pretty miraculous to a ten year old kid.
Of course in those days I didn’t have money to buy $200 digital watches but I drooled over the ads anyway. I’m not that interested in technological gadgets these days, because even though I find the wizardry interesting I prefer to stay engaged with it only to the extent that I can use it to get my goals.
Last summer I ran across a bunch of old magazines with Sugarman ads in them at a flea market. I was there with my lady (who is a talented multi-media artist) looking for old tools and other assorted junk that interests me, and the magazines
