1. Develop a website with an overview of your services, experience, resume, education and links to your articles written online.

See previous article titled: A Working Writer's

Website: Publish, Promote and Profit?

2. Write articles and then offer them to publishers for free See previous article titled: Top Ten Reasons to Write Articles for Free Publication Online

3. Create a signature file to include at the end of every email message you send.

Here's mine for example:

Take Care & Keep Writing!
Danielle Hollister - BellaOnline Writing Host
Email - writing@bellaonline.com
Site - http://writing.bellaonline.com
Zine Online - http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art157.asp

4. Subscribe to a Discussion List for Writing and post messages about your work on the web and/or respond to others' postings using your signature file.

See previous articles titled: What's The Deal With Discussion Lists For Writers

5. Advertise your services using Free classified boards for writers.

Below are a few examples of websites that offer this opportunity online:

Writers Only FREE Classifieds
http://www.pifmagazine.com/writers_only/

1st Step to Get Published - for writers, agents and publishers
http://www.rosedog.com/classifieds.asp

Artist Resource - Seeking Jobs
http://www.artistresource.org/jobs.htm#Seeking

6. Submit the URLs of your personal website and/or pages where your work is published to search engines and online directories.

You will find a good list on this page - http://www.allsearchengines.com/ and you can submit your site to several search engines and directories from this page - http://www.add-url.net/

7. Sign up for ezines/newsletters that offer free advertisements to subscribers.

You can get some helpful links to directories online at this website - http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art12836.asp