Archive for December, 2007

Copywriting Training: The Fundamentals You Need To Understand When Writing Copy

When you are trying to learn how to write an effective sales letter in any copywriting training course, you need to first recognize and understand the basics. The basics are crucial in order for the sales letter to flow nicely. I will briefly elaborate on them.

1. The Qualifier

Freelance Online Writing: The 3 Absolute Must Do’s You Need To Succeed

The fact that the Internet is a medium that relies on fresh and relevant content to keep people coming back has seen the creation of a secondary market which is solely about the creation of new content. The explosive growth of the Internet and the attendant growth of Internet related commerce have created an unprecedented demand for written content. It is rare for webmasters to go about each day creating this content themselves; they simply don’t have the time. What you will find is that they source the content from elsewhere and are happy to pay for it.

Freelance Writing: The Most Practical and Profitable Markets

What you don’t want to be doing as a freelance writer is spending your time flogging your wares in all the wrong places. You don’t want to be fussing around putting your resume on monster.com or other types of job boards. There are very few places that post ads for freelancers on actual job boards. Actually I’ve found that post for jobs on these writing sites usually come to less than five a month.

You Can Write Powerful Copy!

But how do you write this powerful copy (words which will sell your product), if you are not a copywriter?

Here are some basic guidelines:

Communicate directly to your readers, by writing as if you were talking to them. Correct grammar is not the most important issue – being understood is.

Writing Fiction from Experiences

Life is a book. No saying can hold more truth than that one short quote. Life is indeed a book waiting to be written. Ideas for the best novels and stories often come from the authors past experiences, what they observe, or what they hear from people around them. Stories often start with an idea that gets stuck in your brain after hearing or seeing something of interest to you and expanding it with other ideas you might have stored in your memory. These ideas may also be figments of your imagination, stemming from dreams, hopes, ambitions, and the what-ifs we tend to ask ourselves every now and then.

Design Your Book to Sell Well Before You Write It, P2

You don’t have to put your family life on the auction block to write a saleable book anymore. Simply write the solution. It’s a known fact problem solver books sell well; even better than other non-fiction books.

Do You Secretly Want to Publish Your Recipes in a Cookbook?

If you’ve ever secretly thought about publishing your recipes in a cookbook, you will want to read the following.

The popularity of cookbooks as a product that’s easy to sell has continued to go up, along with the sheer quality of the recipes, the design of the book and the downright creativity of self-publishers.

How To Make Your Readers Continue To Swallow The Bait Page After Page

We all know that the way you say things is often just as important as what things you say. Expert authors know that they must be careful with the words that they choose. Everything that you put before your readers must not just be engaging, but it has to keep their eyeballs glued to the page and their hearts pounding with every idea. You are giving them the secrets to make their dreams come true! Who could stop reading that?? Who would WANT to stop reading that??

Fiction Writing: Why You Should Get A Good Agent

To get an agent or not? This decision is a crucial one in your writing career so in this article we’ll examine some of the ‘fors’ and ‘againsts’ of agents for fiction writers.

California Patent Lawyer Discusses Patent Laws

In the United States, patent laws vary from state to state or even from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Thus, California patent laws are unique to California. California patent laws are still both clearly defined and as technically difficult as other states. Patent infringement is basically defined the same everywhere.