Copywriting 101: Start making money from home!

You really can make money as a freelancer. Just imagine, earning your living – a good living – without the hassle of commuting. Be your own boss. All you really need is a PC or Mac and a broadband connection – plus a desire to write and a bit of flair. Three months from now that could all become a reality. You will be a copywriter!

Unlike so many guides on the subject, it’s not a jumped-up list of ‘useful phrases’. It won’t tell you ‘how to make a million dollars overnight’. Instead, it is a unique, detailed step-by-step guide to becoming a successful freelance copywriter working from home, from scratch.

Step by step

Follow each step and you can make between £300 ($450) a day and – with more experience – £500 ($750) a day. Not exactly a get rich quick formula, but a very respectable income. Especially for someone who is their own boss, has few overheads, doesn’t have to commute to work, and chooses exactly how much or how little work they want to take on. Because my website has been live for some time now, I get more than I need and have to turn work away.

Is it possible?

This guide will show you – in detail – everything you need to know. Things like:

How to begin from scratch and quickly build a portfolio
How to find clients – fast
How to market yourself
How to build a copywriter website in just five days – for free
How to find the most profitable projects and drop the rest
How much to charge

It will:

Introduce you to the jargon – no getting caught out as a beginner
Show how to walk your clients through a brief, how to research topics, how to write for print and how to write for the web
We will look at different writing styles (or ‘tone of voice’ as the marketing people call it).
I will teach you questioning techniques for telephone interviews (I do all my work over the net and by phone) and show you some clever, low cost phone recording kit and transcription software so that you won’t even have to take notes
Plus lots of tricks of the trade that save valuable time and mark you out as a real pro

And there are links to real samples of different types of copy, templates, tick lists and so on, plus more detailed descriptions of some of the topics covered in this book (build your own free library). In fact, everything you need to get you started with confidence.

Perhaps the most valuable chapter is dedicated to building your own successful copywriter’s website.