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Join Writer's Residence as an Affiliate - Earn 40% Commission on Each Referral
Written by Monica Shaw
I'm eager to grow our community of writers and excited to announce that we've launched an affiliate program with a very generous 40% commission and potential for recurring income. Writer's Residence is the easiest way to create a professional online writing portfolio, used by freelance writers...
Create an Online Writing Portfolio in Five Steps
I created my first online writing portfolio over 15 years ago using Wordpress, a great tool if you’re a techie but let’s face it, most writers would rather be writing than messing around with a website. I created Writer’s Residence for all the writers out there who need a portfolio to market th...
How To Create an Impressive Writing Sample + Examples
Creating an impressive writing sample requires attention to detail and showcasing your skills effectively. Here are some tips to help you create a strong writing sample and make it looking amazing in your online writing portfolio. General tips for creating an impressive writing sample Understand ...
Meet Writer’s Residence 2.0
My mission since launching Writer’s Residence in 2008 has always been to provide a service that enables writers to show off their work and market themselves professionally. Last year I recognized that the platform was starting to show its age. That’s why, for the last six months, I’ve been workin...
How to Create a Writing Portfolio With No Experience
One of the biggest challenges in starting out as a writer is getting your first article published. But to get published, you need show editors what you can do. How do you do that when you’ve never been published before? In this post I'm shed some light on this Catch-22, and how I created a freela...
Why Every Writer Should Have a Custom Domain Name for Their Writing Website
The road to establishing yourself as a professional writer may seem long and ominous but one quick and easy thing you can do to speed things along is to get your own domain name. Why Should Every Writer Have a Custom Domain Name? Well, compare the following URLs: http://monicashaw.blogspot.com h...
How to Use Your Writing Portfolio in Job Applications
I just had an email from one of our users with a very good question: Do you have any advice or blog posts about using a writing portfolio to apply to multiple types of writing jobs? How should my portfolio reflect this, especially when it comes to the Writing Samples and Home sections? I know thi...
SEO Basics and Best Practices for Online Writing Portfolios
One of our users recently wrote in with a question about SEO, which basically boiled down to this: How does Google find my website? Moreover, how does Google find my website if the website is created by a third party (like Writer's Residence )? SEO is something that every writer should think abo...
5 Must-Haves For Your Online Writing Portfolio
If you've just create an online writing portfolio website to market yourself and your work, then you're probably eager to get it up to snuff as quickly as possible so you can start using it to land some gigs. To that end, I put together this list of bare minimums to get done before you start se...
How To Score Your First Writing Gig (From My First Hand Experience)
The story of how I got my first writing gig - an article in The Daily Telegraph - is integral to the founding of Writer's Residence. Today, I'm sharing this story with you in hopes that it will be useful to those just starting a writing career. Here's a overview, with time estimates: I quit my da...
Why You Should Be Updating Your Writing Website Regularly
I've been looking through our users' writer websites in order to get a feel for how they use their online writing portfolios. It's always nice to stumble upon a use case that hadn't occurred to me before. Recently I spotted this on one of our user's portfolios: This site is to showcase my writing...
3 Purposes of Your Online Writing Portfolio - Are you utilizing all of them?
Most of us started our writing portfolios because we wanted to use them as a tool for finding writing gigs. After all, you need a platform for sharing your work if you want to show editors and clients what you can do. But a writing portfolio isn't just something you throw away once you get the jo...
