Once I started freelance writing full-time about last year, I didn’t have most of a strategy. I was deciding on whatever leads I may find on sites like Elance and Odesk and attempting to build a portfolio that could get me more simply work. As a result, my focus was scattered: a resume here, a series of blog posts there, the ghostwritten eBook that is occasional.
This worked, in a fashion of speaking. But I was losing more bids than I was landing—and the main weapon I experienced was to bid low and bid often. This is bad not only for my own main point here but for the freelancer community at large and I also knew it. Eventually, though, that I had a background I could draw on that would allow me to specialize as I started to get steady work in a few areas I realized.
Pre-freelance
Before going into freelance writing full-time, I spent a true number of years as a study biologist. Continue reading