Please note: due to an overload of freelance work I am currently not taking on new projects. You can email me if you’d like to know when a specific service becomes available again. Thanks! (skellie at skelliewag.org)

I offer affordable and expert-level blog and website services. Here are some of the reasons why you should consider hiring me to work with you:

• Over eight years experience building and maintaining successful niche websites and blogs.
• Currently the force behind two successful blogs with over 7,000 subscribers combined.
• Author of a book on blogging and social media, due out through No Starch Press in 2009.
• Editor of Freelance Switch, a blog with over 25,000 subscribers and 750,000 monthly page views.
• Head of community consulting and weekly columnist at Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger during 2007.
• Guest author at Technorati Top 100 blogs Daily Blog Tips, Zen Habits and Copyblogger.
• My work has hit the front page of Digg five times.
• My writing has received hundreds of thousands of StumbleUpon visitors.
• Copywriting work for a variety of clients targeting a tech-savvy audience.

With the knowledge gained throughout these experiences I can help your online presence reach your most audacious goals. An investment in any of these services is an investment in your future earning potential. The below list is just an overview of what I offer: for more information, scroll down.

Blog consulting
Website consulting
Blog posts highly-optimized for Digg and StumbleUpon traffic
Customized Digg and StumbleUpon strategies
Copywriting

Blog or website consulting

An affordable 8 to 12 page report outlining how your blog or website can reach the goals you’re trying to achieve.

Depending on your requests, you’ll receive expert advice on monetization, building traffic, social media, usability, creating viral content, optimizing your design for traffic, increasing your subscriber count and building a robust brand.

At $149, this report is a highly affordable investment in your blog or website’s future. If you’re interested in a report please email me at skellie at skelliewag dot org to make an inquiry or view a sample report.

TESTIMONIAL:

“Implementing your report has quadrupled visitor numbers in just one week! … The effect was that I immediately got the heaviest traffic ever and had to upgrade to a dedicated server. I’m more than happy to recommend you to others and will be back for more.”
– Mary Jaksch, GoodLifeZen.com

Blog posts highly optimized for Digg and StumbleUpon traffic

My writing has hit the front page of Digg five times, and received hundreds of thousands of visitors on StumbleUpon. Top bloggers like Darren Rowse, Leo Babauta, Brian Clark, Collis Ta’eed and Daniel Scocco have sought out my writing because of my ability to write highly viral content.

If you’d like to commission me to write content with the potential to bring thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of visitors and dozens of backlinks to your blog or website, please get in touch at skellie at skelliewag dot org. The cost per social media optimized post is $199.

Social media strategies

As a professional blogger, one of the skills I bring to the table is a knowledge of what works and what doesn’t work on social media. If you’ve often thought about what it would be like to have your blog or website go popular on StumbleUpon or Digg, but dismissed your chances, I want to show you that it is possible. Anyone can achieve social media success with the right strategies, motivation, focus and advice.

Depending on your needs, I offer three social media packages:

Basic ($60) — 10 complete article plans optimized for StumbleUpon and Digg, including powerful pre-written headlines.

Expanded ($100) — 20 complete article plans optimized for social media, including powerful pre-written headlines (just $5 each).

Platinum ($200) — 25 complete article plans optimized for social media, including powerful pre-written headlines, and a five page customized strategy report on how you can push your social media-targeted posts to the popular pages of Digg, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us.

If you’re interested in one of these packs please email me at skellie at skelliewag dot org to make an inquiry.

TESTIMONIAL:

“In the first 7 hours after I posted the article and headline you suggested I got over 50 thumbs up on StumbleUpon and had 50 diggs. I think it’s at over 100 saves to del.icio.us as well. It’s already had about 11k visits in less than 24 hours.”

“… the post has still gotten over 53k views as of today. Most of it came from StumbleUpon, some came from Delicious, and everything else came from the dozens of backlinks I got from it.”
– Brian Lovin, Elitebydesign.com

Copywriting

With eight years experience managing successful websites and blogs, I have a strong understanding of how to create powerful and effective website copy that is consistent with your desired branding. This includes sign-up pages, About pages, FAQs, main pages, profiles, sales pages, and other standards.

My particular expertise is in writing for a Web 2.0 audience that is bored by traditional hype-laden copywriting and outdated methods of persuasion. I want to market to your customers and visitors like Apple or Google does, not like someone purveying diet pills or tacky get rich quick eBooks. I understand that a tech-savvy audience does not want to feel like it is being sold something, even when it is.

If you’re interested in my copywriting services please email me at skellie at skelliewag dot org to make an inquiry.