Raise your hand if you like fishing.

Me? Not so much. Maybe it was because my husband took me fishing too often when we were dating, but it’s just not my thing.

Is it ironic then that when I started my freelance blogging career, I wanted to take on the role of the fisherman?

Here’s the thing. You can either be a fish in a sea of other fishes (read: freelance bloggers) and seek out the same clients everyone else is, or you can be be the bait and attract the myriad of fish in another pond. Those other fish? They’re your clients.

When I started freelance blogging seriously, I knew one thing for sure: I didn’t want to spend all my time pitching to clients. I wanted them to come to me. And now they do.

Here’s how I reel in blogging clients and how you can, too.

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“I have a writer website, so why aren’t clients knocking down my door *begging* to work with me?”

That’s a valid question.

You knew you needed a writer website, so you eagerly built up your little corner of the Internet. Yet…nothing.

It’s frustrating. Like, I-give-up-and-I’m-just-going-to-to-hide-in-the-corner-now frustrating.

But fear not. It’s possible.

How do I know? Because I’ve done it. And I’ve watched other writers do it, too.

Want to know their secrets? Take a look at these 9 tips for landing clients with your writer website from bloggers who have done it. 

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It’s frustrating, isn’t it?

You keep hearing how quickly video is growing online, like how 80% of the world’s internet traffic will come from video by 2019, and how mobile video will grow 55% per year through 2020.

And you’ve decided you want to be a part of this party and make an explainer video — a short video that explains what your freelance business does — for the home page of your writer’s site.

But there’s so. Much. Information.

Where are you even supposed to start? Just googling the phrase “how to create an explainer video” pulls up over a million hits, and most of those are aimed at corporations that have thousands of dollars to spend on an explainer video.

You’d have to read through several of these articles to scrape out a few tips that apply to you specifically as a freelance blogger looking to make a simple, effective explainer video for your site.

Or you can just read this blog post and call it good. 😉

That’s right, this post will walk you step-by-step through creating your own explainer video so you don’t have to scour the internet to learn how to do it yourself. I’ve included the only information you’ll need to get your first writer’s site video up and running, all while keeping in mind the fact that you’re a freelancer and not some mega-business with a mega-budget.

Ready to get started? Let’s dive in. 

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