What to Say on Your Web Site

One of the themes here on Ten Keyboards is that a writer should use either a web page or blog (or both) to enable marketing of your work. I’ve offered up Five Requirements for a Writer’s Blog.

One of the areas that could be expanded upon in these requirements is the Contact Information. I’ve stated the need as follows:

Contact Information. It is very important that potential publishers, media types, and readers are able to contact you through your blog. Most blogs, including this one, have a dedicated page for contact information. Mine is called Contact Scot.

In doing some additional research into this area, I came across a really good post by Kristen King over at Inkthinker in her article on a Professional Website. She notes some really good ideas on additional items that could be included in the Contact and About information on your site:

Even if you don’t have clips right now, you will eventually, and there’s a lot you can say about yourself even without a ton of writing creds on your resume. For instance…

• What’s your education?
• What kind of jobs have you worked in previously?
• What kind of work do you want to do as a freelancer?
• How have your education and professional experience equipped you to solve my writing problem, whatever it may be?
• How could I hire you if I wanted to do so?
• What’s the best way to contact you?
• Where are you located?

The purpose of a writer’s website is to allow potential editors and clients to find out more about you, and eventually to showcase your work. If you don’t have work to showcase right now, that’s okay. There are still a lot of ways to show your skills and highlight your strengths.

See? Technology can help market your work and, in my opinion, start to build an audience for your work.

Scot