How to bid for content writing projects - FREE TIPS

The trick of winning a bid for content writing project lies in the first 5 lines of your bid writing. Properly pitching the customer in your bid and striking him / her with some idea wins almost 90% of the project. Here are some tips and tricks on where to find work and how to bid for them.

Great online content writers find projects mainly in the following  ways.

1. Bidding on projects on online job posting services marketplace.
2. browsing the job meta search engines for work.
3. looking at online job boards regularly
4.  online and offline marketing
5. Networking and using social bookmarking networks.

For this article I shall take up only the online marketplace.

Firstly there are several online marketplaces where you can find jobs. Here are some of them :-
1. w w w . e l a n c e . c o m
2. w w w . g u r u . c o m
3. w w w . p e o p l e p e r h o u r . c o m
4. w w w . r e n t a c o d e r . c o m
5. w w w . o d e s k . c o m
There are many others though but these are the most popular ones. Elance, guru and odesk are the most popular once where you can find various types of content writing projects like article writng, seo copywriting for web content, simple web content writing, technical writing, manual writing and ebook writing. There are also various writing projects which are highly rewarding like advertising copywriting and corporate copywriting.

So now as you know where to find work you shall have to know the killer tips and tricks to write your pitch or bid to your prospective customer. The first trick is to read the bid document properly and very thoroughly so that you can understand what the customer is looking for. If you can understand his needs you can hit that soft corner by talking sensibly about his needs and writing your proposal by including points like how you are best suited for his requirements.

Secondly you have to prove to your prospective client how knowledgeable you are regarding the topic for which he wants his contents to be written. The best way to do this is to provide samples of your past work in the bid relating to the topic or his interest. For example if he is looking for an ebook to be written then provide samples of your past works relating to ebooks. It will be even better if you can provide works related to the topic. Like if the client is looking for an ebook to be written on freelancing on the internet you can forward him a copywriting or ebook that you might have done on optimizing web content for a specific keyword or a few keywords.