The term “ghost writer” is so mysterious that many people tend to shy away from using such a service. Don’t let the term scare you.

A ghost writer is simply a freelance writer. These writers earn money by writing for various individuals or businesses on a contract basis or per assignment. When you buy content from a ghost writer, you own all rights to the text . You can publish the articles under your name.

There are several websites from which you can hire freelance writers: www.guru.com and www.getafreelancer.com are just a couple. Employers offer projects and writers bid on the jobs. They offer secure measures of payment and article receipt that benefit both the employer and the writer.

Most websites that feature freelance writers allow previous employers to leave comments about their satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Reading those comments can help you sift through and weed out ghost writing applicants.

Most of the websites also give writers the opportunity to upload a resume and samples of previous writings or photography. Take a little time to review that information. It will give you a valuable look into the style and experience level of all the writing applicants.

There are several ways you can best use ghost written content. Use the articles you purchase and upload them to an article submission service. Be sure to enter the maximum number of articles allowed so you will reap full benefit of the service. Having someone else write your articles will save you a tremendous amount of time!

In addition, maybe you can make arrangements with your ghost writer to actually upload the content for you as part of the writer’s fee. Always make sure you read the articles and give approval (or instructions for any changes that the writer must make). Make sure your ghost writer understands that the articles may be uploaded only after official approval has been given.

You can also benefit by using ghost written content on your blog. Find a writer with a style you enjoy reading. To reap most benefits from your ghost written articles, post them to Blogomator. At www.Blogomator.com you can upload all your blog content, predetermine when they’ll post and you won’t have to worry about your WordPress blog for a long time!

Not only does Blogomator free up your time, using ghost written material means you have more time to concentrate on your business or cause!

If you will be using material written by several ghost writers, remember to choose writers with similar styles. After all, the articles or blogs they write are helping you to brand yourself or your business. You want to show consistency to build a respectable image.

Here’s another huge benefit of using ghost writers: you can appear to be a professional writer, even if you’ve never written an article yourself. You suddenly have the image as a professional writer and an expert in your field, without spending any time at all writing!

Content from ghost writers can also be used to help bridge the language gap that the Internet helped expose. More and more people all over the world are starting online businesses. Ghost writers can provide website content for the language of your choice. So, you can effectively communicate with everyone in the world!

Don’t shy away from ghost writers just because you’ve never used one in the past. Ghost writers can free up more time for you to enjoy or work on other aspects of your business. You won’t have the worry about grammar or sentence structure, either!
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Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring

Not even a Mouse!

I couldn’t resist sharing this old cartoon about Christmas in honor of all the kids out there for whom the magic of the holiday continues to delight hearts around the world. In honor of those children, I am building a blog in The Midnight Writer’s Network that is directed at bringing joy to little boys and girls. It is established to bring joy to parents of children with special needs or illnesses. If you haven’t seen it yet, visit Christmas is Coming and join in its launch as we countdown to the holiday, Christmas 2009!

We are looking forward to your participation in all the events, special promotions and contests at Christmas is Coming. Join us in “Letters to Santa” to help sponsor some boys and girls with special needs. Complete details will be published early in November so be sure to visit again soon.

Enjoy the movie!

The Midnight Writer

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Hi everyone! I finally did it! For two days, I went through the grunt work of creating an online portfolio and a resume. You can visit it at Cheryl Lynn Gardner.

This landed me a writing position as a freelancer for Demand Studios so it was worth the two days. Now I’m ready to send prospective clients and associates to my new active page where everything you want to know about me, The Midnight Writer, (my ghost writing name) is open for public viewing. Well, maybe not everything! But the important information about my writing persona is easy to access now.

About the photo in this post. It is not a picture of me. I chose it to display my love for histroical fashion and photography. I love the colonial, the Victorian, and the medieval ages. If you are looking for a writer in these areas, email me.

Be sure to visit my portfolio and tell me what you think of the layout. If you’d like to see any other links or information provided, let me know. Keep in mind, I create portfolios complete with your blog/web layout, the content and links. I will even write a smashing bio about you. If you need an online portfolio to land that next great freelance job, email me at themindnightwriter1@gmail.com and let’s discuss it.

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Raise your hand if you can relate.

My creative zeal and my desire to write gets quashed whenever I push hard writing lots of articles every day to add some invisible calculator until it reaches X amount of dollars. ..just so I can pay the rent and bills or buy groceries. I write many articles for content sites or paid blog reviews for lower dollar amounts so that it takes much more effort and time to reach that X dollar sum for the day.

It is exhausting….and frustrating…..and disappointing…..

And this practice doesn’t allow time to pursue the creative magazine stories or that favorite research project or that novel on the shelf collecting dust.

Enough already!

It’s time for solutions. End the hand wringing long hours at the computer typing away lost in a fog.

Revive your freelance career by taking positive measures for improvement.

This will be the topic of our discussions in this series for improving your freelance writing business. It all starts with finding private clients who pay well to free up your time and talents for loftier pursuits.

Are you ready to explore this area in your freelance career? If you’re writing for other companies and waiting on work from content mills and affiliate sites or how to page generators…..

I hope you raised your hand in an affirmative “YES!”

Let’s explore some of the common techniques used to find private clients, then come up with ideas for new ways to generate interest in you as a freelance writer.

1. Post a resume or portfolio online using various methods, sites and formats.
2. Create a bio on your personal website and/or blog.
3. Search the internet for opportunities then communicate with a proposal to individual listings.
4. Advertise your work on social sites like twitter, Facebook, My Space, Linkedin and etc.
5. Join content sites who pay you per view and write tons of content for a free bio listing and the exposure you will gain from their audience.
6. Word of mouth through friends, family and your immediate circle.

This is only an introductory list. It will expand as I research common methods for finding private clients with a little help from doing research and your important feedback. Please share your information below by leaving a comment.

How do you find private clients? We really want to know your techniques, if you will share with us.

The audience is listening with bent ear….

When you leave your comment below, please leave a link back to your site so I and my readers can find you when we want to read more on your site.

In the next part of this series, Finding Private Clients, we’ll define the methods in 1-6 and show some examples. Then I want to explore the effectiveness of each technique while we uncover some new or unknown methods for increasing your client base.

Will you join us for the next session?

It won’t be the same without you!

The Midnight Writer

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A favorite in my family is books, which is great since so many of us are also writers. I love browsing the bookstores checking out all the latest titles and its even more fun if I’m shopping for someone else.

Do you make gift lists? It’s a good way to remember every one’s names so you won’t forget any one on your list. Next, I brainstorm ideas for gifts that I believe my friends and loved ones will cherish. After a few days thought, I’m open to scratching some items from the list but only after I have fun pricing them. Window shopping for the holidays is half the fun!

In the next few months, you will see gift ideas and product reviews written on my network blogging page. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them.

Will I see you at the mall?

The exciting news is that I will be utilizing the tools from a new program that I signed up for just yesterday. It’s called Crowd Mountain and you can read my initial post on Mountain Spirit Productions.

This new program is all about simplifying your work in optimizing websites and blogs for search engine optimization. A uniquely fun software finds the optimal keywords to enhance your site(s) in a fraction of the time it would take to conduct the research on your own. Hours of painstaking tedious searching and filtering words is reduced to minutes where the program in Market Samurai finds these words and conducts rank analyses. I actually had fun researching my blogs with my one Dollar trial sign up to use the software for twelve days. This blog will be optimized using that technique so I’ll keep you updated on how it works.

Check it out today and tell me what you think. Please leave me a comment.

Follow me on twitter to discuss this further.

The Midnight Writer