Empowered Writers ✍️ 💰Helping Writers Earn More

Evolve your freelance writing into a digital marketing agency. Sell solutions for businesses, not articles by the word. Differentiate yourself from millions of other freelance writers out there.⚡

As a writer, once you understand how much SEO helps a prospective client's business, telling them about it is a natural thing. This is the foundation of your 'sales process': You offer superlative writing, ➡️ which also attracts search traffic ⬅️.

Run a business you advertise simply by creating content around the thing you're best at. Inspired by @shl

'Empowering" yourself as a writer might not mean learning related digital marketing techniques to enhance your marketability, and that's OK. But if you're up for a challenge, augment your writing ability with skills like SEO or running Google Ads. You *will* be rewarded.

Don't define your professional self too firmly by your work history. Especially in times of rapid economic & technological change.* Change creates new opportunities. *Like now.

The best way to reduce mindless scrolling on Twitter? Use it to make money. Once you have a system, cat videos can't compete with $50-$200/day extra cash.

The way to win freedom is to avoid being chained to consumption.

Having a fluid definition of your professional self is a superpower. Vastly underrated. Especially as you become aware of all the ways you can earn online.

Writers: use Twitter 1️⃣ To improve your short-form writing skills and writing consistency 2️⃣ To build your personal brand 3️⃣ As a new channel to make connections, and generate leads Twitter is vastly underrated for each of these.

Three of the best ways to earn right now: ✅ Affiliate marketing ✅ Copywriting ✅ Client SEO Protip: focus on only one at first

As a writer, remember: learning cutting-edge digital marketing methods needn't distract you from your writing, or somehow change it. In fact, if using SEO, copywriting, etc. for clients or your own enterprises removes money as a distraction, it might just enhance your writing!

Writers-- If you can deliver benefits like: ✅ A content marketing strategy ✅ Search traffic then don't sell them (commoditized) features like: ❌ Word count ❌ Hrs of time Up your game.

Raising prices reduces the risk of your offer being seen as a *commodity*. In addition to more money/better margins, that means better clients too.

For earning online, there's no more broadly applicable skill than writing. But identifying as a writer shouldn't mean you don't expand your skillset. Amplifying your writing skills with cutting-edge digital marketing methods transforms your marketability. Embrace it.

Know what pays a lot better than selling fish? Teaching people or businesses how to fish. This tweet is not about fishing. #makemoneyonline

The path to success runs right thru other people's negativity biases.

Writers: 1️⃣Can you create a custom content marketing strategy? 2️⃣Do you understand how SEO brings targeted free visitors from Search? Then don't only sell writing. You're a consultant. Offer the highest form of help you can. (Corollary: learn content marketing & SEO)

As a writer interested in learning digital marketing but feeling overwhelmed, remember: you don't have to learn everything. Just learn one discipline well enough to help clients. #SEO #Copywriting #GoogleAds

SEO has a bad reputation w/some people. But Google gets smarter each year. Deceptive methods/old shortcuts to ranking well work less well now, or not at all. The algorithm now rewards clarity & well-organized writing. ➡️ As a writer w/skills, that's exactly where you come in.

The 1st time a post of yours makes it to the top of Google for a keyword you target, it'll feel like magic. But it won't be magic. You did the keyword research, then you executed. You'll see the power in your newfound ability, satisfying even beyond the money you'll make w/it.