
Need a ghostwriter? Find the website.
It’s mid-January. You feel like this is the year you’re going to tell your story. You’ve been itching to for some time now, and you can no longer wait. You also know you can’t write it yourself. You need a ghostwriters in NJ. Lee Barnathan can provide book editing services in Atlanta to help you get your story going.
How to find one?
Maybe you know people who can introduce you. This was how I found my first ghostwriting job, about the Philadelphia-area schoolteacher who overcame a mysterious heart ailment. Read about it here.
Or maybe you know people who know people. I don’t think that works well. As my business advisor once told me, “Do you think people are really spending time thinking about how to get you business? No, they’re working on their own business.” He also told me, “Show me somebody with a lot of referral partners and I’ll show you somebody without a lot of clients.”
An obvious way to find a ghostwriter is through social media. Pick a site and chances are you’ll find somebody who can do our job. WriterHire, Upwork, Fiverr and Verblio are four you can try (and while you can find positive reviews online about them, I don’t recommend any of them).
There’s LinkedIn, and Minolta Walker wrote about it.
And there’s Guru.com, but the online reviews are so bad (73% of 150 are one star), I’d skip it. Craigslist is even worse (84% of 364 reviews are one star, although not all of them are related to ghostwriting).
Facebook? I found this on Reddit:
A friend of my said I should utilize social media to get more clients but I don’t know how to get more clients from social media without actually being scammed.
Is there any ideas to prevent this?
One answer:
This is why people make other people sign contracts. It’s also why professionals never hire via Facebook. Get a LinkedIn.
So much social media. So much garbage. There is a better way.
Go to a ghostwriting website, whether an agency or an individual.
A website has so many advantages. Here are five:
A constantly available online presence. A website is like a storefront that’s always open, so you can inquire about a potential ghostwriter’s services anytime. I’ve gotten inquiries at odd times—Saturday night at 9, actual holidays—and that’s OK.
It also means you can work with ghostwriters outside your immediate area. This is important because if you find yourself coming up against the law of diminishing returns and need new areas to find a ghostwriter, you’re in luck. You can look nationally instead of just locally, and thanks to technology like Zoom or GoogleMeet, you never have to be in the same room as the ghostwriter.
Credibility. A website shows you the ghostwriter is a legitimate, professional business ready to provide the ghostwriting services you seek.
Informative. A website provides all the pertinent details about the kind of ghostwriting being done. This is important because it tells you if this ghostwriter could be right for you and screens out people who don’t do what you’re looking for, which saves everyone time.
Brand building and awareness. Similar to being informative, the information presented lets you understand who this ghostwriter is—and who he or she isn’t. You can learn the ghostwriter’s mission statement, values, unique selling proposition, and you can get the answer to that all-important question: What’s in it for me?
Convenient customer engagement. Ghostwriting websites usually have an easy way to reach out to the ghostwriter, so you can set up a time to talk about the ghostwriter’s process, philosophy, prices; and the ghostwriter can talk to you about why you want to tell this story, who’s the target audience, and what is the story.
In short, a ghostwriting website gives you the best chance of finding the right ghostwriter for your needs.
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