When trying to sell your writing services, at some point your prospect is going to ask you for “clips” or samples of your work to back up your claim that you not only can indeed write, but write well enough to get paid for it.

If you’re new to the game, you probably don’t have any. Not to worry — we all started somewhere, didn’t we?

Here are a couple of ways to do it today. If you can, go with the first (the customer’s needs factor into it), but the second one is really quick and easy.

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1. Write something short but new, tailored specifically to the type of writing and subject matter your prospect is looking for. Do this well enough, and I’m telling you, it’ll close the sale. Frankly, if this is something you can’t produce in short order, you may be in the wrong business (or, at least, messing around with the wrong type of writing for you).
   
2. You’ve got a blog, right? Select your best posts and use those as your clips. You may even want to take it an itty bit further by expanding a blog post and developing it into a full article — the bulk of the work’s already done anyway, so this should go pretty quickly.

See? Fairly instant clips.

Heck, you can even tell your prospect exactly what you are (“I’m just starting out”) and what you did (“Here, I wrote this short piece about your business just now” or “I took this from my blog”) and it won’t matter one whit. If your clips are sufficiently well done, I’m telling you, it’s price negotiation time.

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