{"id":14169,"date":"2018-06-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=14169"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T16:02:22","slug":"what-i-look-for-in-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/06\/28\/what-i-look-for-in-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"what i look for in a writer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>in a marketing context<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>signals I like \u2013 using a domain rather than gmail.\u00a0but of course, totally understandable if someone is using gmail. i still use gmail too<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a twitter account with organic\/natural activity, preferably over several years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you don\u2019t need to tell me tonnes about your life history \u2013 telling me a little bit about my company and my blog and my needs goes a long way. show me that you\u2019ve looked around my site, point to an article, say something about it, point to one of my users\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>if you run your own blog, site or business, that\u2019s a HUGE plus \u2013 you being a website mom\/dad is more reassuring&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you don\u2019t have to write me a full article \u2013 that\u2019s a lot of effort and it\u2019s kinda awkward if I want to say no. it\u2019s like you made me a full dinner. give me a cupcake instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like people who talk about their likes and dislikes. i saw a lady with pictures of her with a horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>keep the email snappy \u2013 ideally it should be readable in 2 minutes? \u201cjust say yes and I\u2019ll start working on outlines\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you shouldn\u2019t have to share your Facebook, but if you do I\u2019m going to check it out (lol)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>my biggest worry is that you\u2019re going to waste my time. if you actually disappear on me, that\u2019s not all that bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know to include links, images, cited\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suggestions for freelance Writers: interesting things i notice in writer profiles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>do not send massive walls of text. I don\u2019t want to have to read everything about your life. I just want to make a decision \u2013 do I follow up with you now, with excitement, or not?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A headshot does help. Or a linkedin profile attached to your email, a decent social media account. This is really just to persuade me that you\u2019re a real person with some skin-in-the-game, ie you aren\u2019t some scammer who doesn\u2019t dare put their name and face to things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in a marketing context signals I like \u2013 using a domain rather than gmail.\u00a0but of course, totally understandable if someone is using gmail. i still use gmail too a twitter account with organic\/natural activity, preferably over several years you don\u2019t need to tell me tonnes about your life history \u2013&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[758],"class_list":["post-14169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mkt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3Gx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14171,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions\/14171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}