How Ghost Writing Articles And Booklets Can Earn You Big Money!
by:
Abdallah Khamis Abdallah
Do you want to do $5000, $10,000 or more every month as a freelancer? Makes your current publicised materials earn you that more or are you still troubled
looking for new jobs every month? Well, ghost writing articles and books for businesses could earn you a lot of money and end your painful quest for writing jobs.
Making money as a freelance writer can be tough especially for newbies with no samples or prior experience. Most editors want publicised writers with a established track record. And the few acceptances you wish obtain may get you paid $50 or $100 an article. With these figures you can only imagine whether you can do a living freelancing.
Well, its not all doom and gloom as there are different better alternatives. One of these, is ghost writing of articles, books, manuals, e.t.c. for business for fees go from $500 to $5000 or even as more for big work. A single how-to article could be ghost written for businesses for a fee of $1500 or $3000 depending on the activity involved writing and the publications placed in. For certain this is more much than many a magazine and newspaper editors pay for single articles from newbies. Sell four or five articles per month and you can consider going full time into freelancing.
GETTING STARTED
To begin with, you need to identify a niche area of you skillfulness
.It could be in medical writing, business writing or a narrow area which you are knowledgeable in or you can do easy inroads into. Not that this limits your market potential but having a niche area of specialization would-be do it easier to operate, as you wish be perpetually
drawing ideas from a rich and available noesis base.
Next, you should research a few ideas and convert them into a few how-to articles in your market niche. Post the finished articles to article submission databases such as:
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.marketing-seek.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com
Use the publicised articles as samples of your writing ability and work. At the same time the articles wish be picked and publicised in hundreds of ezines and high traffic sites, thus gaining free content for you and your business.
FINDING BUSINESS
To get business you wish need to send letters or e-mails to your local businesses and even as those on the far side
with proposals to write articles for them. Explain to them the benefits of your business such as boosting their business's pictures and believability as well as generate leads for later follow - up. Enclose a few samples, a tentative contract agreement and a cover letter.
You can as well purchase or rent business names and addresses from direct mail list brokers, fish out names from your business and yellow pages directory.
Before writing to them, you could do several background check and find out the status and details of the business. If they have a website, you could check it out and get the name of their marketing executive. Address your letter to him/her and offer to call or visit for a careful business presentation. For businesses which are far away, you could refer them to you website or offer to send them more information by post or e-mail.
WRITING THE ARTICLE
Once you have secured the business's acceptance and you have signed a contract, you should ask them to send to you brochures, press releases, manuals, e.t.c. Write down a list of questions and send to the marketing executive seeking answers just about the business or industry.
You can as well do further research at the local library, online libraries and databases and see trade and industry publications for further information to write an outline for a how to-article.
However, do not do a mistake to think that the article wish be just about your client or load it with so many a facts that bore you reader. That could be suitable for a custom -made booklet, instructions or account for the client. For articles, it is a several matter. Offer tips, solutions to user
or business problems or give a valuable insight into a common issue or problem. The article could be just about self-improvement, fashioning more money, rising
health, planning finances, training e.t.c.
The article would-be contain the client’s by line and bio. The bio would-be explain in brief who the client is, the client’s websites URL and e-mail address. This is really useful and wish be the centrepiece of the believability and infectious agent marketing campaign.
Once you have written the article, you need to send a draft to your client for suggestions and revisions. Adopt the suggestions, ascertain it and prepare a final draft. Send the final draft to your client and post it to article databases, ezines and syndicates online and offline. In the course of time, the article wish be distributed and circulated online and off generating wide content for you client.
How long should the articles be? For how-to articles 500-750 words is the standard but wherever
the subject necessarily complete treatment 1000 to 1500 words is nice length. For a higher word count, you should proposal
your client to consider an ebook, book or book. Of course, the longer the article, the higher the fees.
SETTING YOUR FEES
There is no standard way of rating your article writing services. You should set your fees based on the research activity involved, the hours you spend on the work, and expenses involved in producing and business the article and a profit.
For a 300 to 500 words article $200 to $300 is fair but as the word count leaps into the hundreds, figures of $1500 to $5000 are reasonable. To persuade your customers to cough such amounts, you wish need to tell them the benefits of your service and business promotion through articles. You could as well offer them various packages laden with bonuses and offers. For example, I offer a package, which includes paid placements to article databases and syndicates, ezines solo ads and press releases writing and posting. All this is done to assure the client cheap maximum and wide exposure no matter what. For booklets and ebooks of less than 50 pages, rates of $3000 to $10,000 are not uncommon. For books a ghostwriter may be paid thing
from $20,000 to $100,000 depending on expertise, length and research involved.
At those rates obviously, you wish not get everybody in, but for prospective clients who are used to paying hundreds of thousands in advertising dollars they would-be see it s reasonable and beneficial in the long term.
To ensure that you do not miss business from those who have small budgets to spend on promotion, you can structure your packages according to ability to pay. Those who pay less would-be get nice exposure with no assurance of leads patch those who pay more wish get an all but secure response.
BENEFITS
Everyone wants to cognize how he/she wish benefit from a product or service. For yourself as a freelancer, you wish get booming business and enjoy fashioning money as a freelance ghost writer. You wish get more business by aggregation and showing testimonials of your satisfied clients and establish a reputation as a prolific writer.
For the clients, you wish need to explain to them the benefits of your service. Here are several benefits you can tell them:
Free content to millions of prospects online and offline.
The publicised articles may be used by the client to mail to existing and prospective customers as a free service, building believability and a positive pictures of the business in the process.
Leads wish be generated for futurity follow -up. Enquiries wish be ready-made just about the business and several sales wish be made.
The publication of the article online which contains relevant keywords with the clients website URL wish increase its link quality
and improve its search engine ranking. This may bring in more targeted visitors to the website.
The client wish be given progress reports for at least six months on the places wherever
the articles has been publicised .You can inform him/her to as well search for it on search engines mistreatment his/her by-line or article title.
The article could provide spin-offs for different article ideas, which you could slant for various businesses and markets. You could as well write new articles every month, post them to article databases and send to prospective clients with a cover letter to market your services.
This ghost writing service could be really lucrative. You could earn tens of thousands of dollars every month from it. You could even as get clients global through your website and e-mails to direct response mailing lists.
Only the sky the limit!
About The Author
Abdallah Khamis Abdallah is a freelance employee
and ghostwriter. To discover more just about how you and your business can benefit from our infectious agent and believability marketing solutions, and how your business can benefit from infinite content visit his website at: http://www.qualitywritingsolutions.com.
quantumpro@lycos.com
This article was denote
on Gregorian calendar month
26, 2004