Writing Samples

I write articles for several content sites. Can you use articles from content sites to market writing services?

Sherry

 

You are showing the work you do for other sites. Why wouldn't you be able to do this?

 

Unless you gave full copyright to your clients, you can always showcase your writing. If they didn't specifically say "full copyright" when they made the agreement, it's your writing to use however you see fit and repost wherever you would like.

 

I wasn't sure because they're ghostwritten.

 

If your work is published elsewhere in another author's name, you are most certainly going to upset your clients. It is only if they insisted on "full copyright" that you are actually not allowed to reuse your work as samples.

 

It is now generally understood that a lot of online content is ghost-written so it's okay to use the articles you wrote for others as samples. However, you should not post those articles online. You can send them to prospective clients via email, with an explanation that those were written for so-and-so.
The only thing is that those may not have the same effect as one that is published under your own name. After all, anybody can say that they wrote so-and-so article for this-and-that person.

 

I write for several sites as well. I simply linked to my profiles or articles on those sites from my website rather than duplicating the content in any way. If you write for revenue share sites, it brings a little traffic as well.

 

nice thread giving some good piece of advice and suggestion

 

I use samples I've written on my own, and I also use links to articles I've written for content sites. For example, articles I've written through Demand Studios appear on sites like ehow, golflink, and others. I just link to those sites in addition to providing samples that appear nowhere else but on my site. Hope this helps.

 

Yes, you did all the hard work. Make sure you reap the rewards. Also remember most people wont go through all of the trouble to see where else your writing was posted. Some will, but most folks just want to know that you can produce.

 

i can't understand your question.

 

I commission writing with exclusive rights including the right to publish them under my own name (although I haven't yet).

• If a writer I'd commissioned republished an article I'd paid for they would never get any more work from me.
• If a writer I'd commissioned publicly said an article I'd published under my own name was their work they would never get any more work from me.
• I would have no problems at all if a writer I commissioned publicly said they wrote an article I'd published without a byline. Personally I'd even like it if they linked to the article, but then I'm a link lover