5 Types Of Articles Every Freelance Writer Needs In Their Portfolio
As a creative professional your portfolio is even more important than your resume. Your resume is just your biographical facts. Your portfolio shows potential clients that you can write the content they need. But, to convince clients that you know what you’re doing your portfolio needs to be more than just some random examples of writing.
Not A Typical Portfolio
When people think about putting together a portfolio they usually think about creating a type of scrapbook of things they’ve written before, similar to something a parent would create of a child’s school projects. That’s not a professional creative portfolio.
A portfolio like that may work for a visual creative professional like a graphic designer but it’s not going to work for a writer. Potential clients do not care about a poem you wrote in college or something you wrote for a class five years ago or a letter to the editor you’re particularly proud of.
The “Work For Hire” Problem
Professional writers who write content for a living need to have a focused portfolio to…
