by Ojo Oluwakemi

Created on: November 21, 2010

Many writers do not have the motivating experience of marketing their services globally because they ignore or overlook the advantages and importance of having their own service based website. As a freelance writer, your website connects you to many people out there, it gives out information about your services, people get to know you more, thus getting to trust you especially when they see how outstanding your work is.

More than anything, your prospects need to be motivated, inspired and challenged to hire you for their services through your website. Your website is one of the best medium of marketing your freelance services to people out there.

Therefore, the most essential pages to have on your freelance website are:

*About Page

The about page is where your visitors can learn more about you and your services. You let them know who you are, where you are located, what inspired and motivated you to be a writer, your working experiences, your interests and passion. Information on this page should be correct and should be able to work out magic to your visitors in your own interest.

*Services

This page is where you describe your precise services for your visitors and how it will profit them. How you do your work, your work charges and rates, specifying different rates for different type of services, and how fast you can get your work done – it may be days, weeks or months, it depends on you.

*Portfolio Page

This page is where you showcase your past or published work, what you have done before and samples of what you can do. You can link this page to other pages of clients you have worked for displaying the work you did for them, although you have to ask your clients for an authorization to do that.

*Contact

A “contact” page is very important on your freelance writing website. This is where you provide your contact details – how and where your prospective clients can find or locate you. This helps your visitors to easily get through to you and to ask your any questions as to how you work or how your work is done. Your contact details may be your address, phone numbers, email addresses or other means of contact. Also, you can also include a Feedback form for your visitors, who might want to get through to you directly through your website.

As a freelance writer, your website promotes you and helps you to create and establish relationships with your prospective clients. 

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