How much can I expect to make?

It's more than possible to make $25k+ per year - many Warrior members do it every year.

It helps if you're a good copywriter And you'll have to hustle hard if you don't have any experience. Constantly work on getting better, offer to help others, and make your offer known. You'll get bites.

Cheers,
Stephen

You might be able to pull in $25,000 or more even. And you don't have to do pro bono work either. This often comes up and I always have the same answer. Create a useful information product loaded with value and then write the copy to sell it. If you're smart you'll find virtually all the resources to accomplish this right here on WF. There's no need to make it harder than is has to be.

Put up a clean looking site and figure out how to get traffic to it, then promote the hell out of it. If the copy is any good and you manage to make some sales, you become a proven copywriter.

That's what I did, though it was more by accident than design. I don't even consider myself a copywriter but can still write stuff that sells. In fact, sometimes it sells pretty well. In the meantime maybe you could pick up some article writing gigs or ghostwrite ebooks for people to keep the bills paid. Good luck.

Your asking the wrong questions, you should ask,

How can i become a better copywriter?" instead of "how much money can i make?"

Because, when your copywriting you have to think of your customer more than ever, and the ones that pull in over $50,000 per month do exactly that, they train and train and become incredibly good at it.

They learn from visionary copywriters like Gary Halbert. They continue to find ways to improve their copy.

I understand, you want to make money. But if you are really looking to make alot of money in this buisness or any business you should always be finding ways to improve your customers ROI and not only think of your profits. Because ultimately, they are the ones that are giving you the money and when they find out your just in it for the money. They back out.

Tip: The most profitable businesses are very profitable because many of their customers are the same people buying their products over and over again.You need to think of ways to improve their copy and make them money and they will reward you greatly for it, trust me.

This can apply to almost any business.

So keep that in mind when your looking to make cash online.



- Mech

Yes, $25,000 in your first year is realistic. In fact, if you're planning to work a 40 hour week, I'd say that's on the low side. I made about that in my first year of freelance writing in general - and that's not even copywriting, I spent a few months doing whatever I could get and most of it wasn't real copywriting. And that was doing an average of probably 20 hours a week. So yes, it can definitely be done.

Well I'd say the price of a copywriter depends on how much he can make for his clients.

So.. right now if you're just starting out and you have not done any copywriting for anyone before, you have to break in the hard way.

Go to Clickbank, Paydotcom, Plimus, find sales pages that you think you are able to improve on, email them to strike a deal - that you will do a fresh sales copy for them and they can use it for a week, or split test it for a week, and if your copy over-sold his control copy, you get a royalty out of every sale.. or just ask him to buy it out for a price, couple hundred dollars will be cool..

AND don't forget to ask for testimonials!!

It's easier said than done though, but that's pretty how you can start.

Joe

I'm just echoing what Stephen said - get yourself an offer out there and start working on improving your skills (might have the side effect of making a nice passive income too )

Also, there are some great coaching deals here too which will help you improve your skills immensely. I got into Ray L Edwards coaching and the material inside is pure GOLD. Not to mention his critiques which will pinpoint areas to work on.

Best regards,
Dean

This might be a slight tangent, but how does one make sure that a client does not lie about your measurable copywriting results in order to justify paying only partially or not at all?

I'm guessing you ask that they verify by giving proof, but what would that be?

first you need experience.

then you need proof

then you need a way to show this proof. I like video.

But if you combine all these well, you can charge whatever you like for you products and services.

Haha...I like it Ken.

Pro bono is fine, but I think you would come out way ahead of the game if you followed the affiliate model - get your domain name and hosting, a mere US$160 per year - and develop your skills as a copywriter there rather than spending the bulk of your time looking for someone to take the risk on a beginner.