What A Professional Ghost Writer Needs

Ghost writers face challenges when they enter the field of ghost writing. There is a lot of competition, especially on the Internet. You can Google nearly any search term related to ghost writers, and you will find a plethora of entries advertising their writing services. A modern ghost writing service really needs to come up high in the search results on Google and MSN in order to get enough Internet business, and it also helps to have steady accounts on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It’s best to get plenty of Facebook “Likes,” a lot of Twitter followers, and to build a great page and reputation at LinkedIn and other Internet business social networks.
Ghost writers must gather some published credentials before they can truly embark on a professional writing career, too. Getting your work published can be as easy as working occasionally for sites such as Guru.com and Freelancers.com in order to amass some references from clients and some published credentials, and also you can get several professional articles published on the Internet under your own name which can well show off your ghost writer capabilities. Once you have a portfolio of published work, both under your own name and some excerpts of work from your ghost writing, you can show this off on your website. But remember first to always get written permission from your ghost writing clients to use excerpts from their work to show to potential future clients.
You will also need a professional ghost writer website to refer your ghost writing clients to view, and this needs to have a great, eye-catching template, adequate search engine optimization, and your contact information extremely prominent on the site. A good professional ghost writer will also have the needed resume, portfolio, recommendation and reference listings on the site. You want to get as much word of mouth out about your services as a freelance ghost writer as humanly possible, so get listed as much as you can on the Internet. Plus this, it’s best to create a number of published articles about ghost writing services in general – with links back to your site and email address.
One thing a good ghost writer needs the most is a steady computer connection, preferably a fast one, and steady access to the Internet so that emails can be checked and so that your writing services website can be updated, preferably on a daily basis, for proper search engine optimization. Also, your returning clients will know exactly what is going on lately with your ghost writing services. As a ghost writer, you can set your own hours and don’t have to work on holidays, weekends or whatever, but you need to put in steady time as often as you can. And it also helps to have a printer/fax/copier/scanner machine attached to your desktop PC, for important documents such as contracts, illustrations for books, etc.