"How much do you charge?"
If ever a question was designed to bring up all your issues around confidence and self-esteem, "How much do you charge?" is the one.
This article was originally written for freelance copywriters, but the steps apply to anyone who runs their own business.
If you're writing for publication, you're offering something for sale. Not everyone will want to buy it. This is only common sense. There's no such thing as rejection, there's only writing which has yet to find a home. If you submit a piece of writing enough times, it will sell. Professional writers understand this.
Here in no particular order, are the ten best writing tips I've discovered in 25 years of writing. They may work for you, too. Try them.
How do you put a dollar value on your creative work? Are you charging too much? Too little? In your creative small business, pricing issues will come up again and again. I struggled with them for years, until I managed to get them straight in my own mind.
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If you've been keeping your fingers on the economic pulse, you'll have noticed that the worldwide economy is picking up. All indications point to a new Web boom. This means that writers should gear up and get ready for all the work they can handle.
To make a HUGE success of your creative small business, you need to get good at marketing. And to get good at marketing, you must develop HIGH self-esteem. When you find yourself engaging in negative self-talk, or giving less than 100 per cent to marketing, it means you have self-esteem issues.
During 2003, a Web site stopped being an optional extra for all creatives, including writers. It's now the expected thing. If I read a book by a writer I've never heard of, I'm not only disappointed if I find that she doesn't have a Web site, I feel it also puts her credibility in question. Publishers are well aware of this expectation. Although publishing houses haven't been on the cutting edge of technology, they now all provide Web space for their authors. They know that readers expect and want to get in touch.
How brave are you?
You need courage to submit your work to potential buyers, but you also need courage to get creative with your career. To get creative, you may need to break a few rules.
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