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Freelance writers can attract clients in a variety of ways. If you are interested in building a clientele of nonprofit organizations, here are five proven methods.

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Develop Subject Areas of Expertise

Nonprofits are mission-driven organizations. They have been granted their special tax status because they are working to change the world in some way that benefits society. Therefore, most of them specialize in certain areas, from the environment and animal welfare, to health care and advocacy for children or the elderly, and everything in between. Nonprofits want freelancers who understand their missions and who can help them convey the importance and urgency of their issues to the public. If you specialize in writing about a topic a nonprofit works on, you will be a more attractive candidate to the organization.

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Join Groups that Nonprofits Join

Most states have associations of nonprofit executive directors. You can find a list of these associations on the website of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations. Join the association in the state where you live or where you want to market your writing services. By becoming a member of the group, you will often receive discounted conference and exhibition registrations (where you can meet staff from potentially hundreds of nonprofits) and advertising discounts in newsletters and other publications. Membership in these organizations is a great way to network as well.

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Attend Nonprofit Functions

Go where nonprofit leaders go. Staff at nonprofit organizations tend to support each other’s work and mingle in similar professional circles. By attending a fundraiser for one nonprofit organization, you will likely meet staff from several others, and you can work into conversations that you are a freelance writer. You can usually write off the cost of admission as a charitable donation or as a marketing expense.

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Encourage Word-of-Mouth Referrals

Word-of-mouth referrals are the best kind of marketing for freelance writers. It doesn’t cost you a penny and you don’t even have to do the work. Encourage others to become part of your “secret” sales force by making sure your friends, family, neighbors, spouse’s co-workers, and everyone else you can think of know that you provide writing services for nonprofits. Think about it . . . anyone can be involved with a nonprofit in their spare time, so you never know where that referral for writing and editing services might come from. Make sure your name comes up by letting the people in all the circles of your life know that you are a freelance writer/editor.

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Offer to Write for a Reduced Fee

Many people will suggest that writing for nonprofits as a volunteer is a good way to build a portfolio and client list. But instead of positioning yourself that way, write or edit for a reduced rate or make it clear that you are donating your services as a professional freelance writer. By framing the relationship this way, it is clear to the nonprofit that you are a professional freelancer who normally expects payment for services. Asking for payment on future projects will be much easier with this kind of relationship in place.

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[From our deconstruction of hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters and sitcoms at www.clickok.co.uk and our isolation and identification of more than 188 stages of the Hero's Journey that you need to know about...]

The Hero’s Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the Hollywood movies we have deconstructed are based on this template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.

The Hero’s Journey:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.

and more…

Sample Stages: Godfather (1972)

Call to Adventure: Sollozzo asks to meet with the Corleone’s to discuss funding a drug running operation.

Refusal of the Call: Vito Corleone refuses drugs because he believes they will have a negative impact for the Mafia in the future.

Supernatural Aid: Michael has two mentors: Kay leads him to the good side and Vito pulls him towards the dark (“what miracles you perform for strangers”).

Crossing the First Threshold: Vito gets shot. Michael, for the first time, sits in on the meeting between Tessio and Sonny and actively takes part in the family decision-making process.

Physical Separation (Belly of the Whale): Michael saves his father in the hospital; his face is deformed by captain McCluskey.

Learn more?

The Complete 188 stage Hero’s Journey and other story structure templates can be found at http://www.clickok.co.uk/

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There was a great documentary titled, “Scared Straight.”

As I recall, teenage gang-bangers were shuttled to grown-up penitentiaries on the East coast to get a dose of what big time prison life is about.

If inoculated with a little bit of the poison, the theory went, they’d get just sick enough of crime to quit.

Well, I have my own equivalent of “Scared Straight,” as a writer, speaker, and independent consultant. Whenever I grow tired of my practice I look at the want ads, the classifieds that are looking for “writers” or whatever I’m bellyaching about at the time.

Just today, suffering from what Zig Ziglar calls, “stinkin’ thinkin’” I spotted an ad for a “writer” posted by a prestigious mutual fund company. (If you want this post, contact the Capital Companies in Brea, California.)

I suppose, for the cub reporter or budding journalist it’s an okay position, offering health benefits from “Day 1,” as they put it.

But to me, it’s death.

I cannot imagine finding myself or losing myself, whichever is my purpose for putting fingers to keypads, by interviewing financial services drones who haven’t had an original idea in their lifetimes.

Keeping busy, crafting in-house newsletters, is more than mind-numbing. It’s sticking your head into an electric oven and leaving with a suntan instead of a ticket to the hereafter.

Anyway, if you’re an independent type that is slacking off, goofing around, loafing, or spinning one alibi after the next, scare yourself straight.

Take a long look at the infinite, at slow death.

Scan those want ads, and then give yourself a big hug.

They don’t have you yet!

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Everyday, from dawn to dusk, we see countless things to learn from or to store in library. It is true that we will never be able to catch all the things happening in each day; however, we suppose to learn as much as possible or most of the things. How can we do that?

As a volunteer author for a number of educational websites, thinking of as many topics as possible, follow by expanding the ideas for uploading on the websites is the most mentally challenging vocation for me. There must be a strategy to help me collecting as many everyday issues as possible, and covert these issues into “worth-learning issues.” And this strategy is absolutely simple: writing.

The title: “writer is just about writing” is to teach all the fresh, professional and prospective writers that to be a true writer, writing down every issue come across the eye or mind is the must.

Each day, we see countless sight and mental crossing issues, such as national, international and breaking news, writer’s mistake, shortcoming in anyone’s daily conduct (intentionally and unintentionally), achievement and failure at the workplace, quarrel in the human or animal family, and even the change of nature or environment.

To be a writer, as I said about is to think of as many topics as possible, and we must write a few words to make us remember the topic. For writer, because any crossing can become the worth-learning issue or discussion, writing down a few words [may be a title of the topic] to remind us of the topic to discuss or to expand is the must, because would blankly forget after we arrive home and start writing.

Remember! We need to write as many topics as possible everyday, so without writing as the helping strategy, we would not able to accomplish our quantity and quality dream.

Lay Vicheka’s writing quote: “To be a writer is to write even a piece of dust in font of you.” Coined June 3, 2006 at 6:34, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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If you are a professional writer or public speaker perhaps you might consider discussing or writing about hurricanes, as they make great writing material and help illustrate a point during public speaking. Many a public speaker will dramatize a hurricane disaster in order to make a point about perseverance, commitment or an inspirational point of contention.

Many great writers have hurricanes and hurricane stories woven in to their literary works. Have you consider ways to use hurricanes to make your writing or public speaking material better or to help you bond with your audience or to illustrate a point that you wish to make in your presentation? If you haven’t perhaps you should.

If a hurricane named storm creates a huge amount of destruction and devastation then it does become a popular topic of that time period. The literary works of famous American authors of the past often have hurricane stories in them or mention of them.

In keeping with this tradition of honoring Mother Nature’s incredible force and how it impacts human society and human civilization, it behooves you as a writer or a speaker to continue this tradition, as it will work well for your audience and readers. Please consider this in 2006.

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