How to Find Copywriting Assignments

By eWritingPad Staff Writer

There are lots of ways you can acquire copywriting assignments. This particular article will tell you about different web sites to acquire copywriting assignments and to acquire clients who will bring you copywriting assignments.

There are many different online freelance sites that list copywriting assignments. There are three particular web sites that stand above most others. One is guru.com, which is probably the biggest online freelance pool of assignments from which you can pick. The second is elance.com and the third is www.findafreelancer.com. Each of these sites can actually e-mail you jobs based upon keywords you enter to target particular jobs you might want to apply for.

There are also other web sites, which are the European counterparts to guru.com and elance.com. Although smaller than the American versions, they also have freelance jobs you can apply for. To be a member of these sites, is free for a base membership an optional upgrade can find you better assignments and you can find out about them quicker but it's easier to start with regular (free) membership so you can find out what the site is like and whether you enjoy working there first before spending anything. The paid membership fee, is paid either quarterly or monthly. It is a good investment because you can pick up a number of copywriting assignments that you would not nomally get otherwise.

Of course, if you do not want to, you do not have to pay fees to sites like these to get freelance copywriting assignments. There are also other places to look. To do this, you have to sell yourself. Many companies need copywriting work done for them and will post to that effect online. Of course, many would rather use local contacts or freelancers they already know. Many people are only interested in working with people they can physically meet face-to-face. If you want to tap into this resource, you can contact your local Chamber of Commerce or other civic groups and bring business cards with you when you go to gatherings to meet people.

When you meet people there, just give a short 30-second "speech" about you and your copywriting skills, and what you can do for people. Do a soft sell, not a hard one, and do not come on too strong. However, just make a connection so that these people might remember you and make a contact later if they are interested. It is usually easier for people to work with someone they have met at least once face-to-face instead of picking out an anonymous freelancer off a web site.

The next thing you should do is to make sure that you have your own web site. It is true that a lot of professionals do not even have a web site, and this is a no-no when it comes to giving you a competitive advantage over another freelancer. Not only can you publish some of your past assignments on your web site so that people can locate your work, but you don't have to e-mail people proposals or other samples; you can simply send them to the link so they can look at your work themselves.

Another advantage doing this is that if you get your web site up and running, search engine spiders will pick it up and will actually make it available to people on the Internet when they do a search for copywriters. This, in turn, will provide you more work without you ever having to go out and look for it.

When you look for copywriting assignments, the first thing you have to do is sell yourself. Of course, you also need to think creatively and think up unique ways to make yourself both available to people as a copywriter and noticeable. If you can do this, you will find yourself with more work than you can handle, as long as you consistently look for new work using some of the techniques explained in this article.

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Finding the Best Copywriting Assignments

If you want to know how to find copywriting assignments, it is useful to know that many people choose to begin their copywriting career by using job bidding sites or job boards. This can be a better idea than advertising locally because the Internet means you can theoretically write for anybody, anywhere in the world, as long as you speak the same language.

You can bid what you like on these copywriting assignments but it is a good idea to bid low to begin with, until you have ten or more positive feedbacks, then you can bid higher and be more choosy about the work you bid for. A new writer with a feedback of zero or one might find it hard to get those initial few jobs so don't give up if you can't find work in the first day or two. Keep bidding for jobs you can do and keep your bids competitive. Once you have some good feedback, the clients will have more faith in your abilities as a copywriter and might choose you for a copy writing project of theirs.

The key to finding the best copywriting assignments is patience. Compare the different copywriting websites and join one or two. Fill in your profile properly and state all your qualifications and applicable experience.

Getting the Right Amount of Copywriting Work

Freelancing can be tricky since the work is not guaranteed unless you are lucky to find yourself a client who likes your work and has regular copywriting assignments for you. Sometimes you will be unable to find any work and at other times, you might bid on several large copywriting assignments and win them all! This is why you need to be careful as a freelancer not to bid for too much at once. Some bidding sites will only allow you to bid for a few assignments at once for this very reason.

There is no point bidding on many different assignments unless you are confident that you will find the time to complete them all before their deadlines. Failing to do so might mean you get negative or neutral feedback, which is worse than having no feedback at all!