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If you can write sales letters which sell, you can name your own price as a copywriter. In this article you’ll discover three essential secrets of copywriting — use them in writing all your copy, and build your reputation as a great copywriter.

Want to make great money copywriting? Consider writing sales letters. Even brand new copywriters are paid upwards of $1000 per sales letter: you can earn while you learn.

Let’s look at three secrets of sales letters which sell. You’ll see that these three essentials don’t involve writing. When you’re writing sales letters, the writing comes last, after you’ve done everything else.

If you’ve been writing your sales letters to a formula and are disappointed with the results, the reason for your failure lies in these three secrets.

Let’s see what they are.

1. Research — What Does the Customer Want?

A sales letter which sells starts with research. If you have ten days to write a sales letter, you should spend nine of them on research.

For sales letter research, you research not only the product you’re selling and competing products, but also the customers for that product — if you know what you’re selling, and who’s buying, you’ll write a great sales letter.

2. What’s the Offer? (a Bad Offer Equals a Useless Sales Letter)

The most important part of any sales letter is the offer. With your research almost done, you now know whether the offer you’ll make in the sales letter is a good one.

Avoid offers based on pricing. Pricing is only one part of the marketing mix: it’s always better to focus on value, and adding value.

3. Interview for Great Testimonials — Real People With Real Social Proof Equal Real Money

Proof sells, so testimonials for your product are essential. There are many ways to get great testimonials. One of the best ways is to interview product buyers yourself. You can discover exactly what they like about the product, and how they use it: the more informative you can make your testimonials the better.

Think of your testimonials as news about the product. Here’s an example of a horrible testimonial: “Product X is great; it’s good value for money.”

Better: “I thought my new carpet was ruined after our last party — I used Product X, and the marks and stains came right out. The carpet’s as good as new.”

Use these three secrets when you write your next sales letter. Forget formulas. Great copywriting depends on a firm foundation; now you know how to build the foundation.

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If you can write, you can make as much money as you want to make online.

Here’s a big tip to help you to do that: invest in your own writing business in such a way that your money WORKS for you. Create your own sites and blogs.

When you write for others, you’re trading your time for money. When you spend that money, it’s gone for good.

When you write for yourself however, and create your own sites and blogs, you’re creating online properties which will bring you in passive income for many years to come — and since you own the sites, you can sell them if you wish.

Here’s a message I received last week from David, a Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscriber:

“Four months ago, after I completed Lesson 8 of SYWON I tossed up a simple WordPress blog with ten articles on it. I was creating other blogs, so I thought I’d come back to it. Long story short, the blog made $10 in its first month, $400 in the third month…

“I needed fast cash before Christmas, so I sold the blog for $4,600. I estimate I invested a total of TEN hours of work in the blog. Pure profit, after paying for the domain name, hosting and a couple of ads to sell the blog, was $5000. This means I made $500 an hour. Very nice — I’m looking to make 2009 an incredible year, now I KNOW how much money you can make online. I’ll be selling one blog a month this year. By the way, I quit my day job before Christmas to write full time.”

I’m very pleased for David. Think his story is unusual?

It’s not. There’s great money to be made online, when you invest in your writing business so that your writing skills work for you. Creating your own sites and blogs is just one way.

So get started creating your own sites and blogs, and make 2009 great for you and your family. On the Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) site, I write that you can make $250 an hour when you write for yourself. I maintain that that’s a conservative estimate, and now you can see why.
Happy 2009 to you and yours.

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If you’re a freelance writer who hasn’t yet discovered Squidoo, do yourself a favor and put “MAKE LENSES” on your To Do list for 2009.

I’ve just started a new blog for Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) subscribers (and for you, too of course), and just posted “Make Money Writing: With Squidoo”, to give you an inkling of why Squidoo is so useful for writers.

Once you’ve got a lens or a couple of dozen of them comes the fun of getting traffic.

30 Ways to Increase Squidoo Traffic | Squidüber offers some ideas:

“11. Start up your own blog, completely free, and promote your lenses there.

12. Build a few lenses on the same topic and cross-promote them.

13. Write good articles about your lens topic and submit them to places like ezinearticles, of course don’t forget to link to your lens.

14. Promote your lens on social networks like MySpace and Facebook.”

The idea of linking your lenses and your blogs is that it increases your presence online. An improved presence gets you writing jobs, and of course money in other ways if you’re monetizing Web sites.

Try it. Squidoo is free to use. You’ll like it.
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Do you enjoy writing articles? If you do, consider article marketing for a long term income boost. Not only can you write articles for others, you can also create passive income streams for yourself, building your freelance writing career in the process.

(Because it’s so important, we devote an entire month to article marketing in Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON).)

Firstly, let’s discuss what article marketing is. Basically it’s writing articles and using them as a form of promotion: advertising. However, although the articles you write are used for advertising, they must not be promotional in style. They should be either informative, or entertaining, or both if possible.

Let’s look at how you can write articles for others, as well as writing them for yourself.

1. Writing Article for Others to Use in Marketing

Millions of websites use article marketing to increase their presence on the Web. The more articles, the better their chances of being found via the search engines. So if you know how to write articles, your fingertips can spill out gold nuggets; you’ll never be short of writing jobs online.

There are many different kinds of articles you may be hired to write. But let’s split them into two main kinds: articles which are aimed primarily at the search engines, and articles written primarily for readers. Note: all articles should be written for readers, with a nod to the search engines. However, in practice, many more articles are written for traffic, than for readers.

2. Developing Your Own Passive Income Streams from Your Articles

As freelance writers’ use of the Web increases, many are realizing that if they can make a good income writing for others, they can make an even better income when they write for themselves. The articles you write for others are gone once they’re sold: you sell all rights with them, because they’re “works done for hire.”

The articles you write for yourself on the other hand are yours forever. They can be used as the basis of sites and blogs, as well as ebooks. Many writers rely on affiliate marketing to increase their article writing income too — there are many, many ways in which you can make a great income from your articles.

So there you have two ways in which you can use article marketing to increase your income — get started today.

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Want to make money writing? You can — don’t hesitate — get started writing right now. The Web is built on words, so you can earn while you learn as a Web writer.

Here are some vital tips for success.

1. Web Writers Are in High Demand — Go to Where the Buyers Are

If you’re switching to Web writing from writing for magazines and newspapers, the Web is a whole new world.

Unlike print publications, where you have to approach publications, buyers of your writing will approach you on the Web, as soon as they know that you write for money. (Yes, this applies even if you’re a brand new writer.)

Therefore, set up a free blog or other page online where buyers can find you. You can do this in minutes, and the longer your blog is online the more buyers you will get.

Then, go to where the buyers are. Your buyers are people and businesses which work on the Web. Look for Internet marketing and Webmaster forums, and interact. Promote your site/ blog in your signature file.

2. When You’re New, Take Any Writing Job You Can, for the Testimonials

You’ll need to take a couple of small jobs in the beginning, so you get testimonials. Testimonials are vital; they will increase your credibility.

3. Web Articles Are a Great Money-Making Opportunity

On the Web, sites aim for “presence”: this means lots of pages of content. Articles are great Web content, so if you’re a new writer, the easiest way to make money writing is to write Web articles.

Web articles are short, usually around 400 to 500 words. They’re also written simply; they meant to be scanned, not read with devout attention. So use headings, sub-headings, and bullet points to break up the text when you write.

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If you can write, you can make money writing from home. The Web has made it possible for ANY writer, no matter how new or inexperienced, to turn writing into a fabulous career. If you’re stuck in a soul-destroying, or just boring job, writing is your way out.

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