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Become a copywriter. Make money from home

Yes, you too could be earning money from home - less than two months from now - as a freelance copywriter

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by Len Smith

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 any other guide on How to 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?
Sure, and in this guide I 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

In fact, I will even share my killer ‘terms and conditions’ that enable me to close more business at higher prices. I 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 I will give you stacks of 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.

 

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  • by Ann McLaughlin,

    Brilliant - So Many Enouraging & Motivating Tips to Become a Copywriter From Home

    This is the package you can go through over a weekend and it can really change your life. This is the first program I have watched and read that has got me really motivated to take action. I have written a little in the past – but after watching Len Smith’s video clips and reading his PDF’s I am more than ready to take action so much so that I have been ‘cold calling’ potential clients telling them about my work. The advantage of this package for me is that I can work from home. Len gives a lot of time to help us become our own PR agent and promote business through websites. Further, he gives us an outline of the technology we require. He gives us links where we can download free versions with unlimited use of Dictation and Recording programs. The program takes you from getting started to building a free Copywriting website (which I am in the process of building). The short session on building your ‘on-line’ brochure is extremely helpful. I found the case study really made the program – it brought to life the real possibilities and from that it has enabled me to create a list of key activities that need to be completed in sequence. It enables you to predict potential pitfalls and build an approach to ensure you don’t suffer them. I thought the links in Lecture 12 were hugely valuable – enabling me to take short cuts and just get on with working with Potential clients. The samples of finished work are also encouraging, as was visiting Len’s own website. This really is a short cut and a speedy way to building your own business. I hope soon to be charging the rates that Len quotes in his introductory video. I think I will soon have the confidence to charge these commercial rates!

  • by Robert Aitken,

    Copywriter learns more

    This course has been extremely helpful for me. As a copywriter for more than three years now, I feel like I have advanced beyond the basics most resources and courses offer, but am not yet an expert. Len's course met me exactly where I'm at, offering encouragement and stretching my abilities. This course has been informative and has taught me new tricks of the trade, helping me take my business to the next level. Len has been incredibly helpful along the way, promptly answering questions I have about the course or about business. I feel like he really wants me to succeed, and that is why he has created this course. And it's working!

  • by Justin Smith,

    really enjoying this...

    Len, i know i wrote just one word before but this really is fantastic. As an architect i draw. But now as an architect trying to increase sales and sort of becoming an entrepreneur now i am having to write more and more so being able to learn from you in this very easy and well made way is.. fantastic.

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  • Len Smith

    Freelance copywriter and communications consultant

For the past 20 odd years Len has run his own business, Copywriting On Demand. He works from home, writing copy for organisations around the world - and lots of them have become personal friends.

His biggest market is the USA, followed by the UK, the Arab states and the Netherlands. His business comes via the web and his website enjoys attracts more than 1.000 visits a day.

Clients are as diverse as Vodafone, The Finance Leasing Association, Lloyds,  PricewaterhouseCoopers, a number of multinational pharmaceutical companies - even a TV 'Secret Millionaire'.

Married for almost 50 years (a world record?) he has three sons.

He lives in a rambling old vicarage in Yorkshire that has the distinction of having been built by the Brönte sisters’ Uncle Fennel. Charlotte’s earliest recorded letter was written from the vicarage during one of the children’s brief holidays there.

His interests have included competitive rallying (including an attempt at the Monte Carlo Rally and the Paris Marrakesh), and paragliding. These days he is content with art and opera.

Len can be contacted: len@copywriting-on-demand.com