PPC and affiliate programs:

If you run a good blog or website there are ways you can write your way to good advertising. Advertising doesn’t stop with AdSense or other contextual advertising. You can actually use affiliate programs as an effective way to get paid. There are lots of affiliate programs in internet that pays out very decently.

If it’s not an external affiliate program you can set up your own commissioning program with clickbank. If you have well writing skills you can go a long way in marketing your affiliate products. Affiliate products are same like retailing or reselling. If you buy bulk from a merchant and send it on retail then it’s definitely not wrong. Affiliate works the same way. There are some good product site owners who provide quality buttons and banners that you can add in your sales copy or the articles you promote.

Good place to start is click bank one of the most renounced programs. We have commission junction in look which also gives good returns. We have Amazon who used to pay its affiliates handsomely. They still do it just sign up with Amazon and I am sure you can get good Business from them. If you write well then i am sure you can learn the art of marketing online and make good money out of it. We run blogs they pay us handsomely just by running AdSense or affiliate programs. But remember don’t ever cross the limit most of the search engines including Google don’t like excessive affiliate links on a page. So stay in your limit concentrate more on content and quality and the money will flow automatically.

The fastest way to make money selling affiliate products is to think about the forums, lists, and discussion groups you already belong to. What are the questions being asked? Is there a problem that people need a solution for? What are the hot topics?

Content is king and will always be that way. So remember if you can write content you can do a great job.

Stop spamming in the name of copywriting

Copywriting is a wonderful art I recommend everyone who does cold calling, spam emails to stop promoting themselves. It’s not the best way to do it. I don’t want to mention the names of the spammers. Here is couple of emails we got.
“Located in an elite business centre in New Delhi, India, we are a professionally managed Content Writing Company specializing in online copywriting and optimized content writing. Over the years we are successful in building reputation for us as a quality content management solution provider meeting high quality standards and executing all projects as per specified deadline.
We have a team of unmatched copywriters holding years of expertise in writing impressively for varied business sectors with a key knowledge of online content writing and keyword rich writing.
Our Credibility
– We can deliver articles within 24 hours
– We offer quality content writing services at your affordable price for as low as $1
– Our team is efficient enough to handle outsourced bulk articles jobs and delivery within the specified deadline.
– We have separate team to handle US and UK projects.
– We have enriched knowledge of keyword rich content writing.
– We pass each article to various duplicate content checker software and article checker software.
– To test our expertise, we can provide with sample writing too for free on any topic as asked by”
“I am contacting you to offer my services as an SEO content writer.
I am an experienced web content writer who provides professional SEO content at reasonable rates.
The following are my rates:
$25 per article for orders of 9 articles or less
$23 per article for orders of 10 articles or more
$20 per article for orders of 20 articles or more
You will have full rights to the articles so please feel free to mark up my rates to your customers.
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I can be contacted via email at . Thank you for your time and I look forward to helping you with your
content needs.”

Are you safe rewriting stories?

In my opinion no, I never recommend rewriting stories it’s not the best way to prove your online presence. I have seen on numerous occasions that people get caught and end up embarrassed for rewriting other’s work. When you want to write something you need to say it from your hands. It’s ok to citate some good resources but rewriting a story and claiming to be yours look silly. There is a huge industry that thrives on this. It’s called Para-phrasing, Especially in SEO industry it’s pretty common to Para phrase. But is it a good strategy? I recommend staying away from it unless you are completely out of resources.
If you rewrite something make sure you add some of your own story to it. Or combine multiple resources together so that it doesn’t look as if you took it from a single place. Most people tend to ignore rewriting but if you keep stealing from the same source and rewriting its obvious they might get pissed off. One of my friends was regular to a news site most of his website contents were rewritten from the news site source. Once he got a cease and desist letter from the news site to take down the whole site. He was forced to do to avoid legal battle with the news giant. All his work and the money he spent to rewrite the article got wasted.
There has been some claim that copyright does not hold on rewritten articles and you can actually get away with your article if you are sued, then again why get into all these problems when you can actually write articles from information available online totally for free.

Targeting in writing:

How to you target in writing? Well it’s a tricky question targeting is to first know who your audience are whether it’s a lot of people or a single person or whether it’s for the employees of a company etc.

Single person can be something like thesis document submitted to get best marks from your teacher, a love letter you write to your loved one etc.

Lot of people is what we write all the time. We usually write an article either to a certain set of audience or to a big audience regardless of the topic. Say for example I write an article or footwear i knew my audience would be the people who are looking for information on the footwear details i write. The writing was crafted to that audience and written in a way as to be palatable to the majority of readers.

You need to know a lot about your audience before your write. Writing is an art good articles come out only by better understanding of your audience.

If you’re writing a sales letter, you’d need a lot more information. Understand that when successful copywriters make up a person to write to, we’re not just making up crap out of thin air. The person’s name is drawn out of a hate, but s/he is built upon actual target data.
There are dedicated writers who write only for specific Businesses and they stick to that Business for years. They are in my opinion the best writers on the web. When you know a Business well you can become an advisor or a company rep just by your writing. More you write better your comfort level and you will be in a better position to address your client’s concerns.
Most of the time articles are meant to be for end users than experts, there are technical articles which are meant for experts but most of the time an article should be simple and straight forward well understood by end users.

Press release optimization:

Press releases are one of the most important parts of any online Business. Good press releases help you get good publicity. Not everyone can write press releases we need to have expert knowledge and multiple years of experience to get well written press releases. Also writing for internet everyone should have good knowledge of internet if you don’t know how internet works and you want to write for an online Business then you will fail. Before writing good press releases we need to first understand the way internet works.
Press releases are one of the most important places people look to find out about your company. You need to make sure your message is honed and perfectly suitable to the people who want to know about your company.

Important reasons for Press release optimization:

• You can create better longer visibility for your Organization
• Announce functions, parties, important meetings about your Organization.
• Tell an inspiring story that could help your organization.
• You have the ability to prove to people why they need to select you
• It will improve your market presence profit margin faster.
• Publicity is one of the most important factors for better improvement in Business. Without proper publicity you will fail.

Proof reading your copies

Proof reading is one of the most important aspects when it comes to getting quality and clear copies. Proof reading has been into existence for a very long time. Proof reading can also be compared to copy editing but not similar. Proof reading scripts mostly has typographical errors that can be induced by man or by a typing machine. Olden days we didn’t have computers so we need to rely on typewriters that don’t have dictionary suggestions and proof reading had to be done manually. But nowadays if you use MS word most of the spelling errors can be fixed automatically. Proofreading consists of text review on a computerized version or on hard copy on paper for typing errors or formatting errors. Many modern proofreaders are also required to take on some light copy-editing duties, such as checking for grammar and consistency issues. Many copy editors have a university degree, often in journalism, English, or communications.

Email writing does it require copywriting skills

Copywriting is everywhere. Its not just in writing copies for websites or for journals or blogs. Everyday emails you write especially mails which are meant to be formal requires copywriting skills. A person who is good at communicating with his email is always the best. In recent weeks some email subject lines hit my inbox that I found disconcerting. These emails were from marketers. “Sorry, we’ve got to let you go.” That’s a panic-inducing subject line and even though I don’t have a job (I’m self-employed) it was still panic-inducing rather that curiosity-arousing. “URGENT DEADLINE” was another panic-inducing subject line because I’m a copywriter and usually have a few client projects going on at once so a subject line like that isn’t particularly calming. “I love you.” I didn’t like that subject line at all because it’s clear it was gimmicky and my reaction was, “Um, hello, I don’t even know you.” Plus it would’ve been weird if one of my daughters had been looking over my shoulder when it arrived. So the takeaway from this is to focus on making the reader curious and intrigued when composing a subject line, rather than turned off or panic-y.

Bottom line copywriting is a basic skill that everyone should have. Email copywriting is an interesting subject. Will blog about it more in future.

How copywriting and other tasks are done in Wikipedia:

Interesting article on research by Stanford students about Wikipedia

An interesting article on research by Stanford students about Wikipedia. How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale,crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated on line systems to be more effective? This paper reports on a qualitative study of work and task practices on Wikipedia. Despite the avail-
ability of tag-based community-wide task assignment mechanisms, informants reported that self-directed goals, within-topic expertise, and fortuitous discovery are more frequently
used than community-tagged tasks. We examine how Wiki-pedia editors organize their actions and the actions of other participants, and what implications this has for understand-
ing, and building tools for, crowd-powered systems, or any web site where the main force of production comes from a crowd of online participants. From these observations and
insights, we developed WikiTasks, a tool that integrates with Wikipedia and supports both grassroots creation of site-wide tasks and self-selection of personal tasks, accepted from this
larger pool of community tasks.

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Things to know before hiring a copywriter:

1. Their portfolio. Gives you a feel of their writing, can show you their field of expertise.
2. Their overall website. Can they sell themselves to you? If they can, chances are they know how to write copy that sells.
3. Find out how they work. Some copywriters shows prospects the process of working with them.
4. Their clients. Could also tell you how much they charge. Big names often require big money.
5. One specific thing you should look for is whether they are comfortable writing about your topics. with basic topics like celebrities, yoga, child-rearing, there are innumerable people willing to write for you… but if you have something slightly technical, then you have to make sure that the writer you are considering can handle your task. in other words, almost any writer can write about basic topics, but only a few can tackle technical/mechanical/financial/legal ones.
6. They should have the capability to think out of the box, i.e.,they should be innovative and also have the ability to present it logically. Secondly, they always should think like a laymen or consumer. This is a basic rule and should not be ignored as you can easily make your idea popular and liked by all with the help of this. Thirdly, they should know the liking of the client as to how he wants to see the product or service.
7. If you are looking for quality then you must find someone who can offer you a quality guarantee as most copywriters will charge you for the work done irrespective of whether it is useful to you or not. You may end up losing your money if you can’t find someone who can definitely give you copy that is worthwhile. If someone is offering you a quality guarantee or your money back (you can’t use the copy if you ask for a refund), then that means that the copywriter has the confidence to offer you quality. At most times, it won’t be good to ask for refunds if a professional copywriter has wasted a lot of time writing a sales letter for your target audience.
Last but not the least, all you can do is pay 50 % advance to the copywriter so if it doesn’t work out, at least you don’t lose the whole amount. You could pay up like the rest 50% at the first revision. Sale copywriting is an art and a science and not every one can write copy that sells. Writing copy that sells is indeed something very important and very few copywriters are really great at it.