One of your first purchases as a freelancer should be business cards. It might seem silly at first. If all of your clients contact you online, why do you need a physical business card? You won’t have anyone to give it to, right? Wrong! Here are just a few people that I’ve given my business card:

The owner of a local restaurant, who mentioned she wanted to start a blog for the restaurant on her website
My best friend’s mother, who wanted to recommend me to a friend who needed work, but couldn’t remember my website’s URL
A member of my church, who …read more

I just got my new business cards. The image you see here is the front. It’s the second time I’ve used the earth-from-space image. The first time I tried it, I couldn’t find anything that really seemed to say writing with vision to me so I decided I wanted to remind people we live on a small planet.
I got so many positive comments! People love the image and because they do, they pay, I think, a bit more attention to the print.
The other things that make this card work is the print is BIG. Yes, I had to pay extra, …read more

It should be obvious, but I’m often surprised at how many writers fail to make it easy for people to contact them. As I experience it, my clients initially contacted me either by email or by phone.
Most of my clients find me on the web. That’s why I urge every single writer who is even a bit serious about getting clients have a web site. I make sure my email and phone number is on all my websites (yes, I have more than one) and my mailing address is on all of them except this blog. The only problem I’ve …read more