Power Pitches For Freelance Writers: Develop Easy And Fast Pitches To Win Gigs And Contracts Today

By Angela Booth

Learn the secrets of top freelance writers;
Get the writing jobs you want;
Write less and earn more.

Writing too much? Worried about burnout?

The challenge for writers today is that we're competing in a global marketplace. So, when you rely on job websites like the freelance marketplaces to get gigs, the race is to the bottom. The buyers want cheap writers, and the cheapest bid wins.

This means that you write, and write, and write... until you give up in despair.

There's a better way: learn to pitch.

A "pitch" is basically an offer; a proposal to do something for payment.

Top-earning professional writers know how to pitch

Top-paying companies don't advertise for writers. They don't want a generic "writer."

They want writers who can prove not merely that they can write; these writers must prove that they understand a company, and will provide value.

Companies and publications you can pitch are everywhere. Back in the day, if I needed more gigs and wanted to pitch companies, I drove to my local business park on the outskirts of town. I wrote down the names of businesses I might like to pitch, then drove home and wrote pitches.

Among freelance writers, pitches are often known as "queries" or "proposals." 

Magazines and websites are used to receiving editorial queries, and publishers are used to receiving book proposals. 

Companies are used to receiving proposals too. Often companies put out RFPs (Requests for Proposals) for something or other. 

Start today: pitch for an amazing writing gig
You can change your life as a freelancer today, when you learn how to pitch.

Our guide shows you how to craft pitches which get results, step by step. 

What are you waiting for? Start crafting pitches today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angela Booth
• Release date: Sep 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781540132482

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Power Pitches For Freelance Writers

Power Pitches For Freelance Writers

Develop Easy And Fast Pitches To Win Gigs And Contracts Today

Angela Booth

Angela Booth

Contents

Copyright; Book Description

Introduction: pitching builds lucrative freelance writing incomes

Freelance marketplaces: the best places to explore for gigs (and pitch)

What's a pitch? From short pitches to dazzling extravaganzas, you'll love pitching (it takes you out of the ranks of beginners)

VITAL… Before you start pitching: create your TOS and other essential document templates

Crafting a pitch for an RFP: get work from an outsourcing website

How to craft a GREAT pitch for a project posted on an outsourcing website

Crafting a profitable spec pitch: discover the gigs which aren't advertised

How to develop a spec pitch (also called a proposal)

Stepping through the basic spec pitch… speed counts — pitch your client before someone else does

Crafting the mini-pitch: send more pitches faster

Pitching a book to a traditional publisher (if you must)

What happens when you pitch to a publisher?

What to include in a book pitch: nonfiction

What to include in a book pitch: fiction

Networking: a sure way to get more pitches and win higher paying projects

Clients (and others) who steal: protecting your intellectual property (IP) and copyright when making pitches

How to hustle, your way: develop a pitching strategy

Onward. Pitch, and keep pitching

Preview: Short Fiction Secrets

About the Author

Also by Angela Booth

Copyright; Book Description

Power Pitches For Freelance Writers: Develop Easy And Fast Pitches To Win Gigs And Contracts Today

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Book Description

• Learn the secrets of top freelance writers;

• Get the writing jobs you want;

• Write less and earn more.

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Writing too much? Worried about burnout?

The challenge for writers today is that we’re competing in a global marketplace. So, when you rely on job websites like the freelance marketplaces to get gigs, the race is to the bottom. The buyers want cheap writers, and the cheapest bid wins.   This means that you write, and write, and write... until you give up in despair. 

There's a better way: learn to pitch.

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A pitch is basically an offer; a proposal to do something for payment.

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Top-earning professional writers know how to pitch

Top-paying companies don’t advertise for writers. They don’t want a generic writer. 

They want writers who can prove not merely that they can write; these writers must prove that they understand a company, and will provide value.

Companies and publications you can pitch are everywhere. Back in the day, if I needed more gigs and wanted to pitch companies, I drove to my local business park on the outskirts of town. I wrote down the names of businesses I might like to pitch, then drove home and wrote pitches.

Among freelance writers, pitches are often known as queries or proposals. 

Magazines and websites are used to receiving editorial queries, and publishers are used to receiving book proposals. 

Companies are used to receiving proposals too. Often companies put out RFPs (Requests for Proposals) for something or other. 

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Start today: pitch for an amazing writing gig

You can change your life as a freelancer today, when you learn how to pitch.

Our guide shows you how to craft pitches which get results, step by step. 

What are you waiting for? Start crafting pitches today.

Introduction: pitching builds lucrative freelance writing incomes

Welcome.

It’s my sincere belief that this guide will help you to thrive as a freelancer.

Highly-paid freelancers always have great skills in pitching, and you can develop those skills too.

Let’s get started.

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New to freelancing?

A pitch is an offering. Knowing how to pitch your ideas and offerings will make your writing career much more profitable.

This guide will help you to develop effective pitches, and will help you to follow up on them too. You'll improve the results you're getting, and you'll be more creative with your pitches.

If you're a seasoned freelancer, you're pitching already.

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Pitching examples: pitch daily to build your career

A creative pitch is basically just an offer to do something, for pay — more on who, what, why, how, and when, of pitching shortly.

Let's briefly look at two examples of pitches.

Examples of two pitches you could make today to people who know you — warm pitches

* You send an @ message to someone on Twitter — need 2 blog posts pre-launch?

* You write a custom email message to a client offering to write blog posts. Your email outlines ten blog posts you'll write for the recipient's business. You include the post titles, the categories, and the keywords targeted. You also include a posting schedule, and perhaps an offer to schedule the posts for publication in the business's WordPress blog.

A suggestion: pitch more, because your income will go up.

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Among freelance writers, pitches are often known as queries or proposals

Magazines and websites are accustomed to receiving editorial queries, and publishers are accustomed to receiving book proposals.

However, these days, I prefer the term pitching. It reminds you that you're pitching ideas, and also reminds you that you can and should be creative in your pitches.

Speaking of creativity, there are primarily two kinds of pitches freelancers make: online (email, or other messaging app, or video) and in-person pitches.

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Online pitches, and in-person pitches, which should you choose?

We'll have more to say about both kinds as we progress through the program.

In a nutshell…

* An online (email) pitch is used for everyday writing services. A business might need someone to do write ups for new product lines, or new