Copywriter Needed

Texson...

A little confusing. Your mom has a business. We got that. She needs words on her webpage. We got that.

Is she looking to sell stuff on her website? is she looking for her business to make money? Or is she looking for an article written?

Hi Vin.

My mom is in the silk screening and embroidery business. She also sells specialty advertising items like business card, greeting cards, key chains, ect..

I think I did a good job with what is on there but it has no "punch". It doesn't grab
you and get you to buy.

Hope that helps, sorry for not being more specific.

Jess

Hummmmm,

I said copywritter? Didn't I?

Hi Jess, you can get sales letters done for cheap on rentacoder and other sites. I do have some samples of my work at cassingenacopy.com/samples.html

A consideration you have is your budget - are you looking to pay someone $50 on rentacoder, $500 - $1000 on rentacoder, $3000 outside rentacoder, $5000, $15000?

Generally the ebook marketing industry can't justify a full sales letter from a pro, but maybe your mom's business could justify this a little bit easier. Basically, you should at least get your money back in sales, and then start making a profit. If this would represent a massive turnaround in sales, then you can try a lower priced option.

The other thing is your moms traffic and how its targeted. Does she get plenty of visitors to the page, only to have them leave without buying? Where do they come from - are they looking for your moms products and services? Or are they clicking their own adsense ads?

What I mean here is that you could have had Gary Halbert write your sales letter, but if nobody sees it, or the people who do see it are not interested in the product, you still get no sales.

Wow Vin. I generally agree with almost everything I've seen you post.

I have to disagree on this one. In the vast majority of cases, you're probably right.

But to say it's impossible to find a copywriter who can deliver results for less than $1k a sales page, I have to disagree.

Sure, talent worth their salt won't be charging less than $1k a page for long... But I know several talented copywriters on this forum alone, who have proven results, and charge less than $1k a sales letter.

I get what you're saying, but that's still a slap in the face to at least a few talented copywriters on this forum.

No offense man, just sayin'.

-Scott

Hi Scott

Hey Matt

I have no problem paying for quality. Just like in my mom's business you get what you pay for. However, once in awhile you can find a really good deal.

My mom made some mistakes using CC's ad then when this economic mess happened the very banks that created the problem started going after the people they begged to give credit to. How do you like that?

My mom's faith and determination has kept her going. Since I spend a lot of time online I thought I would see what I could do to help her; thus the reason for this post.

I am not looking for a "Freebie" but I am not looking to spend thousands.

Who ever I find that can help me help my mom now will be the person I use when she can spend thousands. Maybe some writers should think about being more flexible.

Yes, many of you are probably worth thousands even $10,000.00 but even small business, especially during this time could use some help from you pro's.

Remember, thisare tuff times and, some of us are hurting but we will survive and thrive and come out on top, and we will not forget those who gave a helping hand.

Thank you all for your posts and to those who pm'd me.

I am truly glad to be apart of this online community. I look forward to learning from you.

Jess

Texon5, I followed the thread and it seems that even before a copywriter, you need to rework the online business model. A good copywriter won't help you if you don't have an effective way to monetize traffic, basically, by selling stuff online.
A great copywriter, however, could help you rework your business model, acting as a marketing consultant.

And I tend to agree that a good direct response copywriter with web experience will cost a couple of grands, more or less.
There is plenty of people that can write Frankestein-like letters that don't work even if they "appear" good. A good copywriter, is a different story. Good direct response copywriting is not writing: good direct response copywriting is selling.

However, another chance, expecially if your budget is tight is doing it yourself. There are dozens of copywriting courses, most are good in my experience. However, I recently found a guy who stands up because... he isn't a copywriter.

His name is Robert Plank and he is a software programmer. He used his "programming mind" to create two interesting methods for crafting decent copy - and fast - even if you have zero experience. All copywriting courses promise that, but they lack effective and easy-to-follow blueprints.

This guy has done that with two very cheap infoproducts ($19.95 and $27) that I recomment for the newbie (personally I have 10+ years of copywriting, but found some gems and generally liked the "software development" frame of mind that guided this guy.

You can find the two infoproducts (Fast Food Copywriting and Five Minues Copywriting) on Robert's site. I just started to write on this forum and I am not allowed to write a link in the post (go figure!). But if you don't know how to find the site... well you shouldn't be here.

I have bought direct response copywriting courses from big names (Yanik Silver, Joe Vitale, John Carlton) and have been studying the subject since 1993 (with Drayton Bird book "Salespages that sell"). But I like the simple systems that Robert Plank sells.

Ideal for total newbies, I believe.

I'm in the same boat Texson. I want to PM you but can't because my post count is too low.

Rodney