Credible Places For Copywriters To Advertise?

Get out of the way, because some beans are being spillt...

...behind this link that is.

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All the best,
Ewen

Arfa, the link I'm providing shows how one of the best copywriters in the alternative health biz writes promotions.

In particular where the research comes from and what to do with it.

He then shows you the winning piece.

If you follow the same steps, you can then see where other promos are weak and write out an alternative for practice.

This builds your confidence, then you can start calling the markerters who you know can help. These are the big ones you mentioned.

No need to feel intimadated.

I found a weak structure in a Agora mailing piece which was meant to be their control piece. Will I mention it to them...? Yes!

It's just a matter of recognizing weak and strong points right down to the last word.

Turning Research into Gold | The Total Package

All the best,
Ewen

Clickbank anyone?

Or rather should I say, "Affiliate Marketing anyone?" as the following method will work for more than just Clickbank.

1. Find a product in the industry you are looking to write for, especially one with a decent product but a lousy sales letter. (i.e. Look for the products that aren't doing so well as you will have a lot less competition, and it should be relatively easy for you to stand out from amongst them.)

2. Sign up as an affiliate for that product.

3. Write a better sales letter than the one they currently use.

4. Link directly to the order page.

5. Post your sales letter to the web. (You can use your own site, or something like blogger, wordpress, or squidoo, etc.)

6. Send traffic to your page. (There are a lot of good tips in this forum on how to do that for free.)

7. When the owners of that product see the jump in their sales, they will most likely contact you directly to find out what you did & how you did it. When they do contact you, then you can negotiate with them to have your sales letter become their new control. You can ask for an up front fee as well as a percentage of ongoing sales.

The beauty of this method is that it is a way for you to cut your teeth so to speak in ways that aren't really visible to anyone else until you become good. Then you get very visible.

Plus, you get paid the commissions on any sales made as you are developing your skills.

In addition, you don't have to actually deal with any clients, and so don't have the headaches associated with that. Rather, you'd still have the freedom to write anything and any way you want. Plus, you can test and tweak your copy however you want without having to get approval from your client, until they adopt your letter as their control.

I'm sure other copywriters here can give you lots of horror stories about dealing with stupid or otherwise difficult clients who wouldn't let them even test things the copywriter KNEW would work much better than the stuff they were stuck with.

Also, you can repeat this process as often as you want, with as many different products as you want.

Then, once you do get good, you will have a stack of controls, and the stats to prove it, and at that point you can ask whatever you want. The bigger clients will start to see your style and handiwork as having written the sales letters for some of the best selling Clickbank products in your industry, and they will most likely come looking for you rather than you having to chase them.


I hope this helps.



BTW: Clickbank and its competitors would be a good place to find good copywriters to hire as well, just find the top converting products in your industry and contact the owners to see if they'll tell you who wrote the copy for their sales letter. They may not want to tell you, but if they do, then you can see about hiring them. These folks may not be the cheapest up front, but you would at least know that their stuff actually sells, and so they should be able to pay for themselves rather quickly.