Today, I want to bring you an equally straightforward how-to article about keeping both your writing assignments and writing business income steady. Now, keeping either of those things steady proves a challenge for most freelance writers. In her book ‘Six Figure Freelancer’ Kelly James-Enger talks about mentally dividing your freelance writing assignments into three categories: work that you’ve contracted and have to write, queries for which whether or not you have the assignment is outstanding, and work which you’ve completed but are awaiting payment. Whether you’re primarily a magazine freelancer, like James-Enger, or a web writer that works for content networks, or you work for clients, you can apply this methodology.

So what’s the real key to getting more clients? By letting your skills and qualifications be publically displayed on your own website. But clients can’t find you if your website is lost in the clutter of other competing websites. Alyssa Ast, co-founder of the WM Network, has some SEO and marketing tips that can make your website more popular with search engines.

Lisa Mason, author of How to Earn a Living Writing for the Internet, shares her strategies for speeding up the writing process. Although she says it may be difficult to learn at first, she assures writers that it will speed up the writing (and editing) process, reduce errors and allow a writer’s creative energy to flow, resulting in more valuable content.

Do you specialize your writing? Do you have a niche that you stick with more than others and that most of your writing centers around? If so, then it’s time you learn to market this for its full potential. You could be missing out on more earnings and higher rates because you don’t know how to benefit from writing specialization.