how to get clients for essays

Hi to the ES community,

I am currently freelancing as a writer, i previously worked for assignment agents, and i am having an issue of creating a network of my own clients.

Do you guys have any suggestions as to how i can increase my client based, and what are the best steps towards a prominent career in writing. At the moment i have managed to write to PHD level within the business and engineering subject areas. The outcome was successful. I though my "happy" clients would recommend my services to others, but it seems to take a long time. Should I try to pay for advertising or maybe offer extremely good deals or "free trials" to gain trust and confidence among the students?

How long, do you think, is it going to take before I build steady client-base without the need of working with some shady writing agencies?

Thank you

Chloe C

Try writing/typing in proper English.

Hi writers2beware

i wrote this in a casual manner... not doing my best when I write on an online forum.

So you're just casually incompetent in grammar, style, and punctuation?

To be fair, writers2beware, the closest thing to a 'mistake' the OP made was not making the initial 'i' uppercase and using a run-on comma. Moreover, he says he's writing for business/engineering, disciplines where you say 'while' instead of 'whilst', et cetera.

For instance, I'm casually incompetent with grammar, and Ima keep doin it 4 lyfe.

awk


client base


incorrect preposition, missing article


incorrect verb tense for time signifier

"i have managed to write to PHD level" You could kinda spin this as the correct preposition, only stylistically you might want to place it somewhere in the ESL-ENL border region.

My point is that if chloeclaire is writing to ESL audiences, I see no reason why she(?) should be shot down outright, at least so long as her writing isn't drenched in Kenyan commas ("however,he said that ,after a while...") and bizarre figures of speech transplanted from some backwards, non-Western culture. Granted, we have only a small sample of his/her work.

On a site note, being new to this forum I've got to say that some of these Kenyan flame-threads are absolutely priceless. It's like reading a severely mistranslated book of the Bible, like the Book of Revelations or something.. Also, Queen Sheba is classic.

Bob.

Kinda... but I think that's giving this lazy spammer a lot of credit.

is a full-blown psychopath.

ok, i understand you are all geniuses in writing, I did not ask if my English writing skills are top of the range as clearly its not, I just wanted to find out how i can improve in regards to clients. I have had some bad and good clients, and want to increase the work load. i don't write on forums this was my first time. I don't know what I've done to piss everyone off by just asking for advice...

Clearly have different notions of what asking for advice means to you 'spam'

Although I can see how you could be confused, this isn't a place to advertise. Your post up there is spam. Spamming is what happens when you try to advertise your services by coopting forums and/or using mass unsolicited emails. Everything but the "mass" fits your bill, and I suspect if you could get your **** together, it would, too. If you want more clients, here's a clue: make an investment in some English lessons, write an advertisement that doesn't suck, and post it at Essaychat where it belongs.

Too cool for school!

Try to improve your writing pattern. I think if you will change your pattern a little bit and try to right attractively then you will easily get clients in free lancing sites only you will not have to go anywhere. Well, if you want to try then you can check on some biding sites.

We are living in an era where an assortment of illogical sentences 'abducted' from some outside source and arbitrarily placed together on the same page makes you a writer. I'm sure I'll elicit negative reactions but most of us are just smart in paraphrasing.

Unqualified moron: feeling down? Rest assured, no one here cares what you think you're "smart in."

Wow, it seems like there's a lot of crazy stuff going on here. I'm pretty new to social interaction regarding this sort of thing. I've been writing essays since I was a sophomore undergrad, but I never thought to actually talk with people online about it/network. I used to post Craigslist ads, but it's a mess there now. Nothing but spambots and ESL writers who could never pump out a convincing paper, drowning out the decent writers.

I'm not looking to advertise here, as I can read the rules, but it brings up a good question: I don't want to work for one of the essay writing companies, as I prefer to take clients at my own pace and handle my own money. What do you guys think the best bet is for actually getting clients as a newcomer? Will PayPal's new virtual goods policies affect this? I'm hoping to squeeze some knowledge out of the posters here, as it seems like you have all been at this for quite some time, and understand the intricacies of the industry far better than I do.

Welcome. Building up a steady client base takes time and is largely based on word-of-mouth referrals from satisfied return customers. Generally, the fact that PayPal now covers virtual goods for American customers too isn't a significant factor if you provide good work. If anything, it's helpful to legit writers because American customers know they're now protected against some of the types of fraud to which they were previously much more vulnerable than some of their overseas counterparts using PayPal.

So far, from what I've seen, the digital goods policy is a good thing. As for finding clients, I could regurgitate what FW said, but I won't, since that's the jist of it. If you really wanna make it in this line of work, best of luck to you.

Creating a profile and sourcing work on websites like freelancer.com and upwork.com can also be fruitful, but in my experience it is very competitive and assignments can be hard to come by there. Worth looking into though.

Building up your client base should be easier these days provided you have the time to virtually promote your business. Setting up a legitimate website is a good start. Then you keep the momentum going by starting a blog connected to your site and pay to have your blog, not the site promoted. Don't promote your site because Google has rules against promoting academic services these days. The work around is to pay to promote your blog instead. Make sure the blog is also connected to your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media handles so that you get cross promotion for your blog, which leads to your website. These methods prove to be far more efficient these days than word of mouth or pounding the pavement and handing out your calling cards at the student relaxation spots. Just make sure that you will treat the first time clients very well because it is their word of mouth that will get you additional clients. Be true to your word and deliver quality work on time, without plagiarism, or revisions required. This should allow you to see some trickle of clients coming your way.

I started small when I was getting started in the industry. Working on my relatives / cousins papers meant that I got to sharpen my writing chops without having to worry too much about the quality of the work. As long as I could emulate my cousins writing style, I was in the clear. It was from there that I found myself being referred by my relatives to their classmates and family friends.

That was when I started to pay attention to the quality of my work and really put effort into earning the money I was being paid. From there, I began growing a client base using my early network of satisfied clients. I even found the parents of my friends, cousins, and their friends parents referring me to others. That was how I built my client base during my early days. It just naturally followed that the same students / relatives came back to me for their writing needs as they progressed in their academic years as well. The network just kept growing for me from then on.

Funny you say that. I did the same thing with a few relatives and locals who I knew were in school. Ironically, some of the locals later came to me to help with resumes and other projects like designing their business cards, wedding invitations, etc. I never imagined that my accidental introduction to academic writing would lead to where it has, but I love it. If you are willing to learn, take constructive criticism, and work to always better yourself, you can succeed. However, in response to the original poster's defense of her poor writing, just because you're posting in a forum doesn't give a license to write badly. What you write here is an indication of what you will write for someone else--at least it should be. A professional writer should write professionally at all times (excluding private texts between family/friends).

Believe it or not, TikTok is proving to be an extremely fantastic way to recruit clients. I have been uploading quick "writing tips" on that social media platform with unbelievable results. I uploaded 5 quick tutorials and found not only new followers, but new visitors to my website. More than half the people referred by TikTok ended up signing for my services. The clients I got from TikTok were actually quite easy to deal with. They even referred other subscribers to my TikTok channel and, prior to the lockdown, they were in serious discussion with my writers and myself regarding their schoolwork. I am hoping that eventually, my return to TikTok and the (hopefully) reopening of classes will result in those deals reaching a finalized status.

It has become extremely difficult for independent writers and writing companies to recruit clients for their writing businesses these days. While networking still works to a certain extent, the rise of automatic writing tools have made potential clients disinterested in hiring a human writer. LinkedIn is a good way of networking for writers but it does not extend to being found by students looking for an academic writer. I have seen some writers using the site to find clients, but I have been told that they have not succeeded in contacting new clients.