How To Start Your Online Freelance Writing Business: Basic Tips For Beginners

If you are starting an online freelance writing business there are a few things you should consider.

• The first thing is you must register yourself as a business. Having a legitimate business in the form of an LLC gives you a significant level of tax protection by distinguishing between your business assets and your personal assets. This is important especially for cases when things go wrong or the company fails or somebody is dissatisfied and wants to begin a lawsuit. Should any negative situations take place and a settlement be made or recompensed be paid, it would only come out of business assets and not personal assets. That being said you can protect whatever personal assets you had by simply registering your company and giving it a name.
• The nice thing about professionally registering your company is that you appear much more legitimate to potential clients as well. Rather than simply being an individual you are a professional and clients do not need to know whether it is just you behind that professional business title or a plethora of employees.
• When you register your company legitimately you can work with a representative who will help you find the best states in which to register your company so that you can utilize the best tax protection laws. This representative can give you all of the necessary items to legally register your business in that region such as a business address and phone number for local correspondence.
• You should also make sure that you have a viable portfolio of documentation which you can provide to potential clients as evidence of the work that you've completed. When you apply to jobs you also want to make sure that you provide samples. Make sure that you give the client something they can review so they can see exactly what it is you have to offer.

When you begin, make sure to present yourself as a business, and use terms like “out of the office” or “we would be happy to do that”. People do not have to know that you are simply working from your teaching table and you are choosing not to be connected to the Internet three days per week. If you maintain regular communication and communicate in a professional manner you do not have to worry about this as much because it will come naturally.