Sales Letter Writing Hi All, I have written many sales letters for some great buyers of DP, and now planning to start a new site/blog to offer my services. I would like you to discuss the following.... 1 - Will You Suggest A Good Domain Name For My Upcoming Blog? 2 - Do You Have Any Suggestions To Promote Sales Copy Writing? 3 - Have You Ever Had Any Valuable Sources On Sales Letter Writing? 4 - What Are Your Personal Tips To Write Sales Letters? 5 - Pricing Suggestions For Sales Letters [2000, 3000, 5000 words] Thank You For Joining!
Why the questions? If you really are a copywriter, that is, selling-in-print you'd already be a darn good marketer in your own right online. You wouldn't need a suggestion for a domain name. You would know how to choose a generic domain name based on keyword search data...to give you the best possible chance of success online. You wouldn't be asking for suggestions on how to promote sales copywriting - this solution would already be in the bag. You would of course too, already know all of the main valuable copywriting resources online - the books, the people behind them, their history and everything else. If you need personal tips on how to write sales copy you need look no further than my copywriting website below (in my signature) or go check out Michel Fortin or Clayton Makepeace, John Carlton or Ogilvy, Halbert to mention just a few names. Your question seeking pricing advice merely shows your ignorance upon the subject of copywriting. This very clearly shows or demonstrates that you are, at this stage essentially winging it...looking for an opportunity to write sales letters which on the surface, looks very easy to accomplish. Attracted by the high sums of money some of us highly paid copywriters charge, you think this business is easy yet patently you have not the faintest, foggiest clue how to go about it - which will end up doing your clients, poor sods, a complete and utter disservice. Copywriting long form sales letters is never, ever approached from the angle of only using up a quota of so many words i.e. 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 words. You just don't approach it from that perspective in the slightest ever. If you really want to learn copywriting in it's purest form, you need to step back a little bit and learn to walk before you can run, get your head out of the clouds and discover why it takes such a painstaking process to become a darn good copywriter. Before you even think about offering this up as a service to other unsuspecting souls, go read some decent copywriting blogs and books and study the ways of the masters of copywriting first. Best, Mark Andrews...
@Mark Andrews : Thanks a lot for the valuable info that clearly shows your expertise, approach towards the profession and the to-be-respected experience. As you mentioned several times, a copywriter should be capable of handling all these sorts of stuff at his own, and should be well aware of it. Still, why did I put it here is that I then had a second thought that it shall be useful to others, some noobs who just entered the world of WOW [War of Words!] Keep posting here!