Media astrologer

How did you end up in the media as an astrologer? It is a question I have been asked several times over the years. Since it is a nice story in itself and it might also help others who want to reach the media with their own expertise, I decided to devote a little blog to it.

Besides, I have already been approached by editors of various TV and radio programmes via my website on several occasions so an extra blog in this case only increases my visibility even more.

If you also want to reach the media with your own expertise, this is immediately the most important tip: show yourself!

1. Build a comprehensive website that shows who you are and what you can do. The more comprehensive your website, the more relevant information, the more findable in Google.
2. Pay a lot of attention to SEO here. Without SEO, you won't be found well on the keywords you want to be found on.
3. Start a blog.
4. Create a Google business page. This is easy to find in your region and links directly to your website.
5. If you can, write a book and submit your manuscript to publishers with a fund suitable for you.
6. Don't find a suitable publisher, don't give up. Publish your book in-house and spend a lot of time promoting it. Without promotion, no publicity, without publicity no sales.
7. Write to anyone who might be interested in your expertise. Think of agencies, editors of TV programmes, magazines, newspapers, etc. Preferably addressed personally to the management or chief editors.

Good luck!

Tarot booklet written

My career as a media astrologer began in 2004 by writing a tarot booklet; The Tarot in Brief. This booklet came about because as a child I was already love to write was and at the age of 15 from my grandmother learned to read the tarot.

Because this little book became a bestseller by tarot standards, I decided to write a second book in 2006 entitled: Numerology and Tarot in a Snap. When this book, too, sold surprisingly well, my publisher asked if I could do the tarot calendar wanted to revise which could use a modern look after all these years.

Since I was now also running my own tarot practice, as well as regularly working on my website where I blogged and offered various consultations, courses and workshops, for years I only dealt with the cards, until one day he called me to ask if I also knew anything about Chinese astrology. He was in fact looking for an author who could write a vade mecum on the subject in language that everyone could understand.

Bingo!

My publisher had found his author for this. As a young girl I was already working on this out of pure interest, so I saw the offer to write a book about it alongside my publications on tarot as the crowning glory of my work.

 'Chinese astrology as a way of life' was published in 2010.

Chinese horoscope in the Telegraph

Due to the publication of the book on Chinese astrology, my name also appeared more often on the internet and in 2011 I was approached by the Telegraph to write the Chinese annual horoscope for 2012 for them. This was previously always written by an older gentleman but he quit so they were looking for a replacement.

Experts on Chinese astrology were quite hard to find at the time so they were happy to have come across my book on the internet. Whether I would do the Chinese horoscope for them from now on.

Of course!

And then, after having been allowed to feature my Chinese horoscope in the Telegraph for three consecutive years since 2012, I suddenly received an email from the editor-in-chief in 2015 asking if I also understood western astrology. This was because Telegraph was setting up a new platform where they wanted to have 'everything under one roof'.

For now, all daily and weekly horoscopes, the horoscopes for the specials and the Chinese annual horoscope were supplied by different suppliers, which they would like to see changed for the sake of clarity. Whether I was interested in supplying the house astrologer of WOMAN/Telegraph to become.

With this came a girl's dream from.

Because yes, coincidentally, I had indeed also understands western astrology.

Telegraph home astrologer

From then on, I wrote all the horoscopes for VROUW/Telegraaf and, as a brand new 'media astrologer' cum copywriter, I also started my own company Open Card Productions. 

Whereas for a long time I only wrote for the Telegraph and occasionally for ParaVisie, I increasingly dared to include myself at other companies introducing myself, which also increasingly brought me new assignments. After all, if you don't show yourself, people don't know you exist either.

The fact that people now knew my name from the Telegraph obviously helped me enormously in this regard.

Eventually, I had to look for new clients less and less often myself and was increasingly approached by myself, asking if I could write an article or wanted to write horoscope. In addition, the requests for interviews were also trickling in more and more, and I was regularly asked to collaborate on TV programmes in front of or behind the scenes.

Although I prefer behind the scenes work and have so far turned down the vast majority of invitations, it is still quite nice that they knew (and still know) how to find me through my website.

Companies I have had the pleasure of working with so far, and in some cases continue to do so, include :

VROUW; Telegraaf; &C; VOL Magazine; Cosmopolitan; Porterenee; Beau Monde; Elegance; Linda Meiden; Kek Mama; Panorama; Tattoo Planet Magazine; Flair; Fumée, etc.

Hopefully I can add your name to this list soon too? For a fun new assignment I always make time, of course.

 

Contact can be made via the contact form on this website or via e-mail: info@nathalie-kriek.nl

Phone calls from numbers unknown to me I answer sporadically but (serious) apps I always answer: 0625201845.

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