How to Blog to Promote Your Writing Career

Many writers want to know how to blog to promote their writing careers.

They know they shouldn’t just be writing about their personal lives and their challenges as writers.

But they don’t know what they should be blogging about to build their writing businesses.

You may be wondering the same thing.

So how do you blog to build your business as a freelance writer?

It’s really quite simple.

First, determine your audience.

Who do you want to read your blog?

If you’re a writer who wishes to write for other businesses, for example, then you want other business professionals to read your blog because they might hire you to write for their blogs or websites.

Next, answer this question: Why do you want these people to read your blog?

Once you’ve determined your target market, what do you hope to accomplish by having this market read your blog?

There should be benefits for both your readers and for you.

Again, if you’re hoping to attract business professionals to your blog, you need to provide them with information and other resources that will be valuable to them.

The payoff for you in providing this information is that these people will start to read your blog on a regular basis, so you’ll be able to form relationships with them.

Once you form relationships with your readers, you’ll eventually start to turn some of these readers into clients or customers.

Take a look at blogs from other freelance writers and you’ll begin to see how they effectively use their blogs to build their writing careers.

You’ll soon learn how to blog to build your own freelance writing business.

Try it!

Here are some blogs to visit:

Karen Cioffi Writing for Children – Karen is a children’s ghostwriter

www.karencioffiwritingforchildren.com

The Writing Life – from W. Terry Whalin

http://terrywhalin.blogspot.com

How to Do It Frugally – from Carolyn Howard-Johnson

https://www.howtodoitfrugally.com

My Writer’s Life – from Deborah Lyn Stanley