Twitter and Freelance Writers: A Tweeting Plan

freelance writing for money Freelance writing is not what it used to be, so using the micro-blog known as Twitter is the quickest, most up-to-date platform that will aid you in keeping up with industry changes. Before you even type your first tweet, make certain you have a plan in place. If you don’t, Twitter will be nothing more than a place to pass some time, and not the excellent career tool you need it to be. Read the following 4 tips; they will tell you how to build your freelance writing career.

1. Your Twitter personal account and business account should be completely separate.

There really is no limit to the number of Twitter accounts one person can hold, so take advantage of this privilege, and keep your coworkers, friends, family, and acquaintances in an account seperate from your customers and business colleagues. What you ate for lunch, what mp3 track you downloaded, and what TV show you are watching should be tweeted about in your personal account; Making contacts, networking with fellow writers, and procuring writing gigs should be discussed in your business account.

2. Set your goals and make them happen.

Once your business life and personal life become two separate entities, you must sit down and think about what you are looking to achieve. There is no limit to the amount of goals you should set, but each one needs to have its own deadline. Once you reach each deadline, write a summary of your success or your failure for you to reflect on.

And, this will shock you, but I like failures. Why? I like them because I believe that on the way to achieving any worthwhile goal you will fail before you reach it. For me, the best way to success is by experiencing failure first.

There is no goal that you can’t set, but let’s discuss this goal for an example. You find a website or magazine you are crazy about, and you really want a chance to write an article for them. Go to your business account and post a tweet with hash tags, which we will discuss later. Create hash tags to ask questions about the website or magazine. After you do this, most of the time a representative from the website or magazine will respond almost instantly. Definitely more efficient that writing an email or query.

3. Hash tags can get the attention of your target audience.

When you tag your tweets, you use hash tags. These types of tags allow you to be found and indexed. The only thing you have to do is put a # in front of your tag. The following are 3 instances of how you should tag:

-on Twitter: #Twitter
-on writing: #writing
-on freelance: #freelance

4. Determine your success.

Wasting time and getting a miniscule amount of benefits is all too easy on Twitter. For instance, one day I was talking to a couple of writers whose amount of followers were getting bigger each day, and of course, they were ecstatic. So, I had to ask how that was helping them out in their business. They had no idea how to respond. My point is that growing your number of followers is helpful as long as it is a part of your goal’s plans. The reason why follower numbers are counted is because they are very noticeable.

So, take stock of your success by how many goals you have reached: finding research, contact with sources and editors, and relationships with other writers. If you post tweets with a purpose then Twitter can be of great assistance.

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