4 Important Keys To Pitching Yourself As A Freelance Writer
By: Tonte Bo Douglas
Tags: Writing, Freelance Writing, Marketing, Pitching, Freelance

4 Important Keys To Pitching Yourself As A Freelance Writer

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I always thought that if I waited patiently and worked hard, opportunities will come looking for me.

If I write and keep writing, then people will kick down my door wanting to work with me in various ways.

And why wouldn’t that happen? Putting in hard work should surely mean that good thing is easier to come by, right?

The opportunities should come looking for me, shouldn’t they?

Not entirely.

My entire outlook on life changed when I fully grasped the concept that opportunities come to those who go out to look for them. Especially as a freelance writer.

Opportunities come to those that ask for them.

Opportunities come to those that pitch for them.

Opportunities come to those that get rejected yet keeps on pitching and selling themselves.

Opportunities come to those that see what others don’t see and try to fill in those gaps.

There are freelance writers out there that spend hours simply pitching their work to publications. Sometimes with no reply. Sometimes getting nothing but a handful of rejections.

Yet that didn’t stop them from pitching until they got that one yes that changed everything.

Despite our best efforts and intentions, the reality is that opportunities simply do not fall out of the sky for most of us.

You have to be willing to want them to the point where you won’t let anything let you make excuses for not securing them.

A well-crafted pitch helps you communicate what you do to your intended audience so that you can secure that opportunity that you are after.

Going after the opportunities that you are after involves effectively communicating the value of what you have to offer and letting them know what is in it for them.

If enough is in it for them, you too can look to get that opportunity which you thought was unobtainable. I received paid opportunities to write simply by pitching myself and communicating what value I had to offer and how I could benefit them. Since then, I’ve been doing that more and more. I’ve received more rejections than I ever have, but that isn’t stopping me from continuing to write and will not stop me from continuing to pitch myself.

And it won’t stop you either.

When it comes to pitching yourself, the more you know what you have to offer, work towards improving what you have to offer and going out there and showing and proving what you have to offer, the more abundance you can hope to attract into your own life.

But the opportunities will not simply fall in your lap. Continue writing. Continue promoting yourself. Continue looking for the gaps which you are able to fill in.

If you truly want to elevate in your writing career, you simply cannot avoid pitching yourself. If you truly want to get that dream opportunity, you need to get out there, look for it, and sell yourself for it as your life depends on it.

When it comes to pitching yourself as a freelance writer, there are important keys which when I started to implement in my own freelancer career, I saw a lot more results. I’m glad to share some of these tips with you and I hope that it brings results in your own career.