1. Develop a website with an overview of your services, experience, resume, education and links to your articles written online.
See previous article titled: A Working Writer’s
Website: Publish, Promote and Profit?
2. Write articles and then offer them to publishers for free See previous article titled: Top Ten Reasons to Write Articles for Free Publication Online
3. Create a signature file to include at the end of every email message you send.
Here’s mine for example:
Take Care & Keep Writing!
Danielle Hollister – BellaOnline Writing Host
Email –
Site –
Zine Online –
4. Subscribe to a Discussion List for Writing and post messages about your work on the web and/or respond to others’ postings using your signature file.
See previous articles titled: What’s The Deal With Discussion Lists For Writers
5. Advertise your services using Free classified boards for writers.
Below are a few examples of websites that offer this opportunity online:
Writers Only FREE Classifieds
1st Step to Get Published – for writers, agents and publishers
Artist Resource – Seeking Jobs
6. Submit the URLs of your personal website and/or pages where your work is published to search engines and online directories.
You will find a good list on this page –
and you can submit your site to several search
engines and directories from this page –
7. Sign up for ezines/newsletters that offer free advertisements to subscribers.
You can get some helpful links to directories online at this website –
Resource Box – Danielle Hollister (2004) is the Publisher of BellaOnline Quotations Zine – A free newsletter for quote lovers featuring more than 10,000 quotations in dozens of categories like – love, friendship, children, inspiration, success, wisdom, family, life, and many more. Read it online at –
