Ways to Start Your Online Portfolio

To gain private clients, you need to have samples that you are willing to share with them. The best way of doing this is to have a writing portfolio. The articles that you put in your portfolio need to showcase your work and the topics that you are knowledgeable about. It means taking the time to create a great portfolio.

Start Your Own Blog

One of the best ways to create an online writing portfolio is to start your own blog. This will give you the chance to write about topics that interest you and you have knowledge in. You can also make the choice over whether you want to monetize your blog through various methods or make it non-profitable and purely for samples.

When writing for your own blogs, make sure you optimize posts for search engines to help potential clients find you – after all, they will not know your name yet! You may want to start various blogs on different niches to help attract specific clients to your work and keep topics separate from each other.

Write for Article Directories

If you do not want to start a blog then you could write articles for article directories or revenue share websites. These websites will already have the page rank to help you with search engine results. The problem with some of these is that you will be limited to the topics that you are able to write about and you will need to stick to the websites’ guidelines. If you have your own blog, you can write to your own guidelines.

Offer to Write for Free

I often tell people to stay away from this but it could be something for those who are struggling to find high paying clients. Employers are more likely to accept your work if it is free of charge – and there are many websites that will allow guest blogs. The benefit to these is that you gain your name on the work and the websites often already have a higher page rank, meaning you are noticed quicker than starting your own blogs.

The people that you offer free material for may be willing to pay for material in the future. If they like your work, they may also pass your details on to others who are looking for writers – and willing to pay for the work. Word out mouth is a great way to get noticed in the online writing world.

Whatever way you decide to start writing your online portfolio, make sure that you have one. This will help to prevent you needing to write samples for every client that you contact. Make sure that your writing samples are full of information, free of all spelling, grammar and punctuation errors and written in a way to make people want to read them. This will help you gain more clients and start earning money writing online quickly.