How To Be Known As An Expert Online
One of the best ways to attract top clients to consider you for the work they are offering is to become an expert online in your field.
This is true whether you are doing freelance work or actual formal consulting; expert online workers get higher consideration for projects that are being offered.
Now it is not important that you are considered the world’s leading expert online; you just need to have a complete understanding of whatever field or topic that you are trying to work in.
It is very important to properly choose whatever niche or focus that you would like to be an online expert in.
Properly focused niches like “computer games” or “home entertainment” would allow you to be considered an expert online and to acquire consideration for projects.
It is also helpful that you decide to choose an area that you are truly interested in to be considered an expert online. Think you can be an expert online? What do you do next?
One of the quickest ways to let a wide range of people know that you are knowledgeable about something is to get your name attached to the subject. How do you do this?
Write some articles and get them out on the web. Once you have a couple of articles printed with your name as the author, you will soon be quickly on the road to expert status.
It does not matter where you have these articles published. They can be on your own website or someone else’s site that already has a good reputation.
You should also make it known that other editors can use your articles on their websites, which will increase your exposure and increase your status as an expert online for your field.
Do not forget about blogs and discussion groups; as others find out the information that you are providing is reliable, your status as an expert will again rise.
Remember to link as many sources back to your website.
Is there something better than articles on the web?
Even better than having articles published online is to have them published in a printed publication. Once you have a few articles published in hard print, your expert status will rise quickly.
This is not very difficult in specialty magazines. Find one or two magazines or papers and send in some of your articles. If you have done your work well, you will soon see your name being published with your articles.
Go out and speak to the public
If you have published enough articles, you should receive some speaking opportunities, you should take advantage of these. You can also seek opportunities to speak at local events.
Once people begin to hear you in person, your status will only increase as more people are introduced to your style and thoughts.
The next step, write a book!
The fastest way to expert status is to author a book. If you know enough to write a book and get it published, then you truly are on the road to being an expert. Being a published author also opens the door to more speaking opportunities and increased status.
Final thoughts
Once you find yourself writing articles for both web and traditional sources, speaking at events, and possibly with a published book, you will then know you are truly considered an expert.
Your hard work, which started with you trying to be an expert online, will now bring you even more benefits.
