08-03-2016, 12:08 PM
Stage 1 day 15
I've been consuming just about everything I can related to high converting copy and listening to audios of high performance copywriters talking about their craft.
The cool thing about most copy advice is that a high proportion of it is timeless.
It's sort of like salesmanship and human psychology; not much has changed in the past century so seeking out older masters and their timeless works is completely relevant to me.
From what i have seen and gathered from studying different sales pages and digging in to question different writers I've connected with, I have found that my current writing skill level is roughly worth around $5 - 8k at most .
This means that if i connected with the right people for the right projects, that's how much my current skill level could net me for a single project.
Reading some of the sales pages that netted the writers $10 - 25k plus royalties...let's just say that I'm not there yet. I get that it will take me time to brand myself anyway, but the skill level of some of those sales letters is often mind blowing.
We're talking 5 - 10+ pages (so long sales letters) which are the epitome of the greased slide effect; readers get pulled into the copy and are likely to finish before they know what hit them.
That's TRUE copywriting, where the reader gets lost in reading. The trance hits and *BOOM*, the credit card to buy comes sliding out of the wallet.
But yeah, I'm not there yet, and i 100% get that.
I know I'll technically be earning peanuts, or close to that extremely minimum level of pay, when i first start out, and for the first few months of me aggressively going out to pull in clients, that's okay.
I'll just need to put the after burners on the manifestations experiments just so the right opportunities open as just the right time. That's really what needs to happen.
The right connections open up and suddenly a tiny trickle of clients come my way. That's how it was for my traffic biz, and i put in the work to make that trickle a freakin river.
I have also loosely strategized how to get the first flow of clients in while being a nobody.
This will require a combination of networking in the right groups on facebook AND doing a bit of creative advertising on PPC networks such as bing.
I've been reverse engineering a successful copywriter who uses facebook PPC, and as I've just recently discovered, Bing / Yahoo. He wouldn't be using those ad networks if they weren't working, so I've swiped some of his ads just so i can reword them and use them for inspiration later.
It does also feel as if Ultimate Writer and BASE 6G will play a big roll in me scaling my business going into 2017 and beyond. I can practice all i want, but the mindset of a highly esteemed and master copywriter is quite a bit different than what I'm used to. There's no sense going into this industry aiming to be average, or even above average. I need to prove my worth quickly and rub the right shoulders to get ahead.
It's literally the same process I used in my traffic biz, but the invisible underworld of connections is slowly becoming apparent to me. Now it's my job to break into that world.
I've been consuming just about everything I can related to high converting copy and listening to audios of high performance copywriters talking about their craft.
The cool thing about most copy advice is that a high proportion of it is timeless.
It's sort of like salesmanship and human psychology; not much has changed in the past century so seeking out older masters and their timeless works is completely relevant to me.
From what i have seen and gathered from studying different sales pages and digging in to question different writers I've connected with, I have found that my current writing skill level is roughly worth around $5 - 8k at most .
This means that if i connected with the right people for the right projects, that's how much my current skill level could net me for a single project.
Reading some of the sales pages that netted the writers $10 - 25k plus royalties...let's just say that I'm not there yet. I get that it will take me time to brand myself anyway, but the skill level of some of those sales letters is often mind blowing.
We're talking 5 - 10+ pages (so long sales letters) which are the epitome of the greased slide effect; readers get pulled into the copy and are likely to finish before they know what hit them.
That's TRUE copywriting, where the reader gets lost in reading. The trance hits and *BOOM*, the credit card to buy comes sliding out of the wallet.
But yeah, I'm not there yet, and i 100% get that.
I know I'll technically be earning peanuts, or close to that extremely minimum level of pay, when i first start out, and for the first few months of me aggressively going out to pull in clients, that's okay.
I'll just need to put the after burners on the manifestations experiments just so the right opportunities open as just the right time. That's really what needs to happen.
The right connections open up and suddenly a tiny trickle of clients come my way. That's how it was for my traffic biz, and i put in the work to make that trickle a freakin river.
I have also loosely strategized how to get the first flow of clients in while being a nobody.
This will require a combination of networking in the right groups on facebook AND doing a bit of creative advertising on PPC networks such as bing.
I've been reverse engineering a successful copywriter who uses facebook PPC, and as I've just recently discovered, Bing / Yahoo. He wouldn't be using those ad networks if they weren't working, so I've swiped some of his ads just so i can reword them and use them for inspiration later.
It does also feel as if Ultimate Writer and BASE 6G will play a big roll in me scaling my business going into 2017 and beyond. I can practice all i want, but the mindset of a highly esteemed and master copywriter is quite a bit different than what I'm used to. There's no sense going into this industry aiming to be average, or even above average. I need to prove my worth quickly and rub the right shoulders to get ahead.
It's literally the same process I used in my traffic biz, but the invisible underworld of connections is slowly becoming apparent to me. Now it's my job to break into that world.
