Tonight, fulltime freelance writer Yvonne Perry will show subscribers how to create their own lucrative freelance writing business.

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In real estate it may be all about location, location, location.

In the publishing world, it’s all about promotion, promotion, promotion.

Tonight, in our Writers on Call teleclass - Promotion! Promotion! Promotion! How to Create a Buzz About Your Writing and Writing Services - we’ll cover some of the many ways writers can actively promote their work.

Writers on Call is a subscription based, weekly teleclass for freelance writers. For only $37.00 a month, writers receive nearly 4 hours of group coaching each and every month.

To subscribe to Writers on Call, send an email to suzanne@workingwriterscoach.com

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It only costs $37.00 per month for nearly FOUR hours of group coaching each and every month. Plus, you’ll see that we often offer special bonuses during the month.

Here’s what’s coming up on Writers on Call:

This week, on May 17th, Yvonne Perry will start a 6-part series called HOW TO START AND MANAGE A FREELANCE WRITING BUSINESS.

To find out more about this week’s session listen here:

The second part of this series will take place on Thursday, May 24th.

On May 31st - since that is the fifth Thursday of the week, we’ll have a free question and answer session for freelance writers. Come join this session free of charge to find out if these weekly coaching sessions are for you.

June 7 - Re-Evaulating Your Goals for 2007

During this session, Suzanne Lieurance will help you look back at the goals each of you created for yourself in January. We’ll talk about the progress each of you has made, the setbacks you might have experienced, and any other problems you’ve had moving forward with these goals.

If you never created definite career goals for yourself in January, we’ll help you do that during this telesession. We’ll also look back at some of the telessions we have presented so far this year, to see if any of these other writers/special guests have provided a good model for you to follow with any of your writing goals and projects.

Jun 14th - Group Critique Session

This week, subscribers will be invited to submit their query letters, cover
letters, etc. for critique and review. We’ll also review tips for writing effective query letters.

As you can see, we have some information packed teleclasses coming up. We hope you’ll join us and get your own freelance career started on take it to the next step.

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As a freelance writer, if you work at home you can take multi-tasking to a ridiculous level and drive yourself crazy. Or, you can learn to multi-task a little differently than simply doing three or four things at once.

Learn to multi-task the easy way by finding at least 3 uses for each article or piece of writing that you produce.

For example, an article you write to submit to online directories can also be used in your own professional ezine or newsletter. You might also change the article by about 20 percent and then use it on your own website or blog.

Also, if you’re a speaker and consultant as well as a writer, use your speeches or presentations as the basis for many short articles to submit to online directories or use them in your own mailings.

Work smarter. Not harder. Then you’ll have more time to actually enjoy your success!

At last Saturday’s Kansas City Press Club Conference, I suggested that writers create a weekly marketing plan. This is something I do each and every week, and I have my coaching clients do each and every week.

I promised to post something to my blog this week about creating a weekly marketing plan, so here it is:

Freelance Writers: You Need a Weekly Marketing Plan
by Suzanne Lieurance, The Working Writer’s Coach

Most freelance writers who make a living from their work will tell you they are usually doing one of two things. They are either working (on a writing assignment) or looking for work (more writing assignments). That’s the only way to keep both the work and the money constantly flowing in so they can pay their bills on time.

One way to make it easier to keep new work coming in is to develop a weekly marketing plan. A good day to develop your plan for the week is either Sunday evening (when you’re getting ready for your work week), or Monday morning (before you actually start working). It isn’t difficult to develop a marketing plan for the week. The key is to do it each and every week.

Your weekly marketing plan should consist of a list of the following:

1. Editors and other contacts - These are the people you plan to call or email during the week. This may include an editor you wish to query, or one you need to follow up with about an assignment or contract, or it could be an editor who requested a resume and writing samples and you need to get them out to that editor this week.

2. Job Boards or other job listings - These are sites you plan to view to see if there are any new job listings that interest you. If you know certain web sites post new jobs for writers on Tuesday, then put that down on your plan for Tuesday. If you don’t have a list of online job boards, then plan to spend an hour or so in the coming week searching for some. Also, sign up for ezines for writers (that include job ads) if you don’t already subscribe to at least a few.

3. Promotional activities - You must constantly promote yourself and your writing in order to be a working writer. If you have a web site or blog, updating it each week is part of this promotion. If you don’t have a web site or blog to promote your writing, then you need to create one, so “start on website” or “create blog” would go in this category of your marketing plan.

Writing press releases about your business or for a new book you have coming out, or getting contracts to schools or other organizations that want to book you as a speaker, are other activities that come under this category. Writing free articles for article directories might also be included here since these articles will help promote you and your writing services.

4. Networking activities - This category is a bit different from contacts or promotional activities. If you belong to any community organizations, or groups for writers, jot down how you plan on using these groups for networking this week. You might plan to join a listserv for writers and then introduce yourself to everyone on the list this week, or you might want to attend your local business association meeting to let other business owners in your area know about your writing services. Just make sure you have at least a few plans for networking with other writers and/or businesses each week.

You can make your weekly marketing plan as general or as detailed as you like. But once you have written down all your marketing plans for the week, you will know how much time you should have available to work on your current writing assignments. Generally, working writers weave their marketing activities in with their writing activities each day. But some writers prefer to do all their marketing on Mondays, so they have the rest of the week to work on assignments. This is a good plan, but if you’ve applied for various writing assignments, you might get a response from an editor during the week and you’ll need to follow-up with him immediately instead of waiting until the next Monday when you try to do most of your marketing activities. In a case like this, it helps to be flexible.

One of the big payoffs in consistently developing a weekly marketing plan is that you will begin to receive more and more job offers. In fact, sometimes you will receive offers for jobs you haven’t even applied for. Editors will simply find your web site or blog and will call or email to see if you are available for an assignment. When this happens, you will realize just how important a weekly marketing plan can be.

So, no matter what day of the week it might be right now, if you don’t have a marketing plan for this week, get busy and develop one. You’ll be glad you did.

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Enjoy!

Suzanne Lieurance
The Working Writer’s Coach