Meme: Who Do You Write For?

Yvonne at Grow Your Writing Business tagged me with a two-part meme: Who Do You Write For? and Are You Talking to Your Readers?

I am writing this blog for freelance writers, aspiring and professional, who want to work for nonprofit organizations. It’s a great niche and one I love. This blog lets me share my experiences and offer tips to others who want to break into this part of the business writing field. I also cover the business side of freelancing, self-employment, working at home, etc. Given this goal, I hope that I am talking to my readers and that they will talk back! This is a relatively young blog, but I do have some comments, so that is a good sign.

I’ve spent much more time and effort on my other blog, Nonprofit Communications. That blog is written for staff at nonprofit organizations to give them advice on how to produce their own print and online publications. It is also useful for freelancers who are serving nonprofit clients. While this blog talks about how to write for nonprofits as a freelancer, that blog talks more about what you write. Nonprofit Communications has really taken off in the last few months. The Technorati rank, which is one indicator of whether you are reaching people, is 72,013 today, and I hope to crack the 50,000 mark by summer. By comparison, this blog is only at 434,644! I’d like to get it closer to the 100,000 mark by fall.

I’m now tagging an old friend from college, Christine Sculati, with this meme. We haven’t seen each other in many years, but we’ve reconnected online and it turns out we are doing similar work.