With all of the talk about "consumer confidence" and people around the US returning to "faith" in these troubled times, it's easy to feel, as a writer, insignificant -- and "unneeded." It's even easier easy to feel uninspired on the topics you normally write about. How can a contruction writer write about forklifts in a time like this? How can a content writer continue to write when everyone is saying "The web is dead?"
It's something that freelance writers don't like to talk about or hear about, but it happens more often than we like to admit.
Google.com, one of the web's hottest search engines, has indexed several billion of web pages to date*. The World Wide Web is officially gigantic, with hundreds of thousands of corporate, small business, and ecommerce websites vying for something more than just the "eyeballs" that web analysts hailed in the 1990's. In order to create success, websites are now searching for a steady, interactive audience. Why aren't they succeeding? Could it STILL have something to do with the content?
Introduction
It is often thrown around loosely on the web that "Content is king."
If content is king, then what is a content writer?
Freelance writing is an unstable occupation sometimes. We already have to struggle with dividing our time between marketing our skills, writing queries, and seeking out new clientele. Sometimes there's not enough time; sometimes there's not enough money.
When It All Began: The First Web Writings
While there weren't many online writers in the formative years of the web, if you were around then, you know what it was like.
What would make your writing life a little easier? A little empathy? A lot more assignments? A little organization? Here are 10 things you can give to yourself or pass along to somebody else to simplify, expand, and increase the growth rate of your writing career.
Google.com, one of the web's hottest search engines, has indexed over 1,346,966,000 web pages to date. The World Wide Web is officially gigantic, with hundreds of thousands of corporate, small business, and ecommerce websites vying for something more than just the "eyeballs" that web analysts hailed in the 1990's. In order to create success, websites are now searching for a steady, interactive audience. Why aren't they succeeding? Could it STILL have something to do with the content?
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