Need Writing Clips?
Try these 5 simple ways to build your writing sample portfolio
“How do I build a writing sample portfolio?” a newbie copywriter asked. “People won’t hire me without first seeing my work. But I can’t get clips unless I write.”
It’s one of the questions I hear most often. And it’s a problem I faced, too, when I first started writing. A potential client always asks that pesky question: “Do you have any clips?”
Writing samples — clips — are examples of your copywriting or content writing. You needn’t have been paid to write them for you to use them as clips. They simply need to be good enough so that someone would have paid you to write them.
There are simple ways to find them or create them and build your portfolio quickly. And here’s a surprise: you probably already have a writing sample or two (or more) tucked away in your files and you don’t even know it. Read on …
Simple ways to build your writing sample portfolio
1. Check your files
Dig through your files and find the cover letter you wrote to go with your resume … a project summary or PowerPoint presentation you created …. a short announcement or article you wrote for a newsletter … a page of web content that you wrote…
