Ever wondered how to write a white paper? Here’s the ultimate in-depth guide on how to write white papers.

Grant writing is one of the most lucrative niches for freelance writers. The demand for grant writers has grown in recent years, with the expansion of the nonprofit sector and the need for resources to fund an extremely wide range of programs and initiatives locally, nationally, and internationally.

We’ve all heard that content is king. Nearly every business has a website and in order to creep up the Google rankings content needs to be updated regularly.

Letters of introduction (commonly called LOIs) can be intimidating for freelance writers. It can be hard to find the exact words to interest and entice potential clients. And if you don’t get many replies to your LOIs it’s easy to feel that no one wants your services and give up. But I’ve found that many of us are doing LOIs wrong. And what we should be doing instead is simple.

Most of you know that I don’t believe that freelance writers need a niche. Loads of freelance writers get stressed, believing they need a niche to make great money from freelancing.

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that I’m not shy about sharing my mistakes.

When I’m feeling good, I look at mistakes as huge opportunities – to grow and to learn.

But when I’m not feeling in quite such a positive mood my mistakes are misguided, forehead-slapping moments that I ruminate on for days and days.

But recently I’ve come to realise that I’ve been making the same mistake over and over when quoting my rates.

And once I cottoned on to where I was going wrong, my whole approach to quoting rates (mostly to corporate clients), changed.

There’s a big divide in the world of freelance writing.

Before COVID-19, there were so many organisations creating content and looking for freelance writers.

Everywhere I looked there were companies who wanted to create content, but didn’t know where to find good writers. At the moment everything is paused. But I can already feel some gears starting to shift. Some of my corporate clients that went quiet at the beginning of coronavirus are now starting to get back in touch.

So I want to make sure that you are poised and ready to capitalise on what is sure to be an uptick in work once organisations get back on their feet.

This post takes you through the best ways to identify potential content writing clients, who you may not have heard of before, but who have budgets and a need for freelance writers.

This is your annual reminder to optimise your LinkedIn profile. Despite LinkedIn being one of the most useful platforms for freelance writers, many people are overwhelmingly ambivalent about it.

A month or so ago when I asked what you wanted me to cover in upcoming blog posts, there was one question that kept coming up: How do I find high paying corporate writing gigs?