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.