Happy Wednesday! Donât forget to check out todayâs Gig Alerts section if youâre looking for more clients.
Mentioned in this edition: Amazon, Venmo, Twitter, Meta, and Google. Plus what makes an ideal client, a surprisingly simple technique to grow your freelance biz, and how to sell a high-ticket course in 15 words or less.
Read time: 5 minutes and 11 seconds
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Making the Rounds
- Amazon launching new Venmo payment option for Black Friday. The update is already being rolled out to select users, with all U.S. accounts able to use the popular payments to check out on Amazon by November 25.
- 65% of U.S. shoppers are planning to spend less this Christmas. Looks like inflation, rising gas and food prices, and fear of a recession are putting a dent in consumersâ shopping appetite this holiday season. New research from YouTube advertising company Channel Factory found that a majority of shoppers are planning to spend less at Christmas this year, with 57% reporting that price is the main factor.
- Twitter employees flee to Meta and Google in anticipation of Elon takeover. Over 500 employees have left the company in the past 90 days, with many going to Meta and Google according to a new report.
Working With Clients
âSo The New Funnel Isnât Converting Just YetâŚâ
If youâre just starting out as a freelancerâŚ
Itâs natural to try and sign anyone with a pulse and a credit card as a client.
But thatâs a big mistake.
Hereâs whyâŚ
Marketing and advertising can be boiled down to taking financial risks on creative ideas.
Some of them pan out.
Some of them donât.
In fact, itâs normal to have to iterate 3-5+ times on an angle, offer, or marketing campaign before you find a winner.
But if youâre working with a client whoâs never hired a freelancer to produce any marketing assets for them beforeâŚ
Or someone whoâs never spent a dime on paid adsâŚ
The odds of them having unrealistic expectations are sky high.
Which means youâll have a hard time satisfying them unless you hit out of the park on your first at-bat.
SoâŚ
Aim to work with clients who understand (and have experience with) marketing and advertising.
People who understand you have to spend money to make moneyâŚ
That having a great offer matters more than having great copyâŚ
That you need to âbuyâ data through testing before you can optimize your campaignsâŚ
And that even the best copywriters and media buyers in the world donât hit home runs every time.
Now you may have to work a little harder to find and land clients like thisâŚ
But itâs an investment that will pay off big time in the long run.
Working For Yourself
Surprisingly Simple Technique to Grow Your Freelance Biz
Before someone will hire you to do a job, they have to know (or at least believe) that you can actually do the job.
And if youâre running a freelance businessâŚ
This gap of awareness is much easier to bridge if you do it in advance.
How?
By building your network and getting to know other people in your industry.
Thereâs a reason they say your network is your net worth.
Because the more people knowâŚ
1 – Who you are
2 – What you can do
⌠the more opportunities youâll get.
Plain and simple.
And if youâre worried about âthe competitionâ or anyone else who provides the same service as you do..
Consider this:
There is SO much more work out there than there are competent people who can do it.
The amount of people who have both skill and the will to pursue the same goals as you do is so small that it doesnât even matter.
The closer you get to the top, the smaller the world gets.
Here are a few ways to get started:
– Join free communities focused around a specific niche or skill
– Build relationships with other service providers on social media
– Buy a product from your favorite content creator to start a more intimate conversation
Bottom line is:
Become a connector and youâll have more opportunities than you know what to do with.
From The Copywriting Gig
How to Sell a High-Ticket Course in 15 Words or Less
WIIFM is one of the most important concepts in copy.
It stands for âwhatâs in it for meâ â a reminder that your readers donât actually care about youâŚ
So if you want to get someoneâs attention, appealing to their self-desire is key.
But according to Gary Halbert, author of the Coat of Arms promo that ran for over 30 years and generated millions of dollars in the 70s and 80s, and someone whoâs often listed as one of the best copywriters of all timeâŚ
Thereâs ONE element of persuasion even more important than self-desire.
Something that can make readers burn through 50 pages of copy in a frenzyâŚ
Something that can turn an underperforming ad or email into a customer-generating machineâŚ
And something that separates pro copywriters from wannabe Don Drapers.
Can you guess what it is?
Iâll give you a hint: itâs not a killer price, money back guarantee, or added bonusâŚ
And itâs got nothing to do with scarcity, urgency, or even storytellingâŚ
Instead, that special something is:
Curiosity.
You seeâŚ
You never want to reveal everything in your ad, email, or sales page right away.
Learn how to talk about something without giving away what it is.
Especially when it comes to writing bullets (also known as âfascinationsâ in copy)…
Because sometimes all it takes is ONE really juicy bullet to hook a readerâŚ
And create a psychological âitchâ they just have to scratch.
(by buying your product, of course đ
Even if itâs a high-ticket info product that costs $2,000 or more.
Ultimately, if your readers arenât curious to discover your secret, hack, trick, tactic, strategy, or 7 magic words to achieve a desired resultâŚ
They wonât be motivated to buy.
A few tips to execute on this:
- Talk about what itâs not
- Talk about what itâs better than
- Talk about what you can do it without
But no matter how you create curiosityâŚ
Just make sure you can actually pay it off inside the product â because thatâs what separates compelling copy from cringy clickbait.
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