1. Develop a website with an overview of your services, experience, resume, education and links to your articles written online.

See previous article titled: A Working Writer's

Website: Publish, Promote and Profit?

2. Write articles and then offer them to publishers for free See previous article titled: Top Ten Reasons to Write Articles for Free Publication Online

3. Create a signature file to include at the end of every email message you send.

Here's mine for example:

Take Care & Keep Writing!
Danielle Hollister - BellaOnline Writing Host
Email - writing@bellaonline.com
Site - http://writing.bellaonline.com
Zine Online - http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art157.asp

4. Subscribe to a Discussion List for Writing and post messages about your work on the web and/or respond to others' postings using your signature file.

See previous articles titled: What's The Deal With Discussion Lists For Writers

5. Advertise your services using Free classified boards for writers.

Below are a few examples of websites that offer this opportunity online:

Writers Only FREE Classifieds
http://www.pifmagazine.com/writers_only/

1st Step to Get Published - for writers, agents and publishers
http://www.rosedog.com/classifieds.asp

Artist Resource - Seeking Jobs
http://www.artistresource.org/jobs.htm#Seeking

6. Submit the URLs of your personal website and/or pages where your work is published to search engines and online directories.

You will find a good list on this page - http://www.allsearchengines.com/ and you can submit your site to several search engines and directories from this page - http://www.add-url.net/

7. Sign up for ezines/newsletters that offer free advertisements to subscribers.

You can get some helpful links to directories online at this website - http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art12836.asp

Danielle Hollister

Danielle Hollister is a single mom of a seven year-old son, who is her personal assistant in their home office, where she has been working as a freelance writer, editor and researcher for more than 10 years. Danielle′s work has been featured in online newsletters, like Briefme.com's Books & Literature ezine, on various websites, and in print publications. Before expanding her career focus to the Internet, she worked for more than three years as a freelance reporter for The Patriot-News, the only daily newspaper in her hometown of Harrisburg, which is the Capitol of Pennsylvania. She also spent two years as the assistant writer to the Director of Public Relations at Penn State Harrisburg, after graduating with high honors from the University with a Bachelor's Degree in Humanitites/Communications. While in college, she worked part-time to pay for her education as a Special Events Coordinator for the Central PA Chapter of The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and as an Editorial Assistant for Stackpole Publishing in Harrisburg.