Once You’ve Landed The Gig: Now What?

Stay In Close Touch With Clients

You finally get an assignment. All of your marketing has finally paid off with a paying assignment. Most excellent, and good for you. But now what?
How do you engage the client, define the project parameters and discuss the difficult topic of payment – something even the best client hates to [...]

Web Writing: Know Your Target Market and Hit The Bull’s-Eye

If you’ve been writing professionally for more than two weeks you know what the demographic is. For the rest of you, the demographic is the sweet spot of your client’s market. It’s your target audience.
And the better you understand that target the more effective your writing. It’s all about pushing the right buttons to compel [...]

Hiring A Web Writer: 10 Tips

Your website is often your first (and only) introduction to a potential new buyer. That’s why it’s critical that everything on the site look and sound professional. Good product pictures, easy-to-navigate tool bar, a simple few-step checkout and, yes, good copy.
You might not think professional copywriting is important. You could do it. Or maybe your [...]

Confessions of a Proud Hack

There, I said it.
I’m a hack and proud of it. I can write on any topic. In the past three months I’ve written on hearing aid technology, personal development, micro-cap investing, oil and gas juniors, business consulting, search engine optimization and a bunch of other stuff that I’ve already forgotten.
I’m no genius. (Believe me.) [...]

Answers Your Copywriter Needs – TODAY!

Let’s turn the tables on our clients. Hey, clients, here’s what we need to know before we can write your site text, auto-responders, e-book, white paper or Adwords cube. Can you help us out?
– Editor
As soon as search engines became relevant, copywriting changed. Maybe you didn’t notice it. Content quality took a back seat [...]

Web Writers: When Clients Succeed, You Succeed

 
 
 
There are lots of reasons only six percent of websites survive 12 months. Some of these problems can be overcome using the services of a good web writer. Others will always remain a mystery.
 
When you take on a site text assignment, here are some pitfalls to avoid.
Lack of Consistency
One day, you’re on Google’s #1 SERP, [...]

Lesson # 1: Web Writers: What To Ask Your Clients.

Want somebody to tell you how good your writing is? Wrong blog. Writing good copy takes discipline and determination. You got what it takes, grunt?