How to Make Money Fast and Easy
How to Make Money Fast and Easy?
Well if you are If you are a freelancer and want to start make some cash fast & easy, then this article might suit you. What I am going to show is not theory or just something I just made up while I was trying to write this post. I am going to give you 2 ways by which people have already implemented successfully.
I am going to give you to the point methods to generate fast cash. You’ll love these ideas if you work on it. If you don’t, well, I can’t help it then…
1. Making Money With Yellow Pages Fast and Easy. This is one technique I know quite a few copywriters implemented when they were short on cash (and experience). Here’s what you should be doing…
Open up your Yellow Pages: Check out any business that you’d like to work with (or know about). Now notice their ads. If you know copywriting 101, then you can recognize good ads from bad ones. If you want some basic Copywriting 101 then check out my earlier post on Advertising 102: How to sell more from your classified ads.
Chances are most ads are in pretty bad shape. This is your gold mine.
Now this is what you are going to do…
You are going to write a letter to these business owners. Write 3-5 tips on how they can improve their yellow pages ad and get more leads for their business. You are going to introduce yourself as a yellow pages copywriter.
Tell them how they are spending money on pretty graphics and color.
Tell them how they are wasting their ad space with nothing but big white spaces. You can write a yellow page ad which address the problem of their clients and generate more leads from their yellow pages ads.
Tell them how if they differentiate themselves from others will increase their chances of getting more calls.
All you need to do is write 10 letters to these business owners daily. In a week, you’ll be dealing with few of those. Then all you need to do is talk about how their ads can improve.
Here’s a Secret TIP: Never Ever Talk about yourself. Talk about them, their business, their clients etc… Sell them on themselves.
Another Power tip To increase cashflow for you: Do you know yellow pages publishing schedule is different for different states? Now this can be problem for you. But worry not, as I am here.
Here’s what you do, you just find business owners from other states and contact them. With internet everything is possible. Contact is dirt cheap. Use skype to contact them for free. But that’s not what I want to tell you in this tip.
You see, tell these business owners about classified ads. How you can help improve their calls just from classified ads. Basic copywriting 101 still works. If you can’t get yellow pages, try out classified ads job. I know its hard sell. but You don’t have much of a choice, Do you?
How much you should charge to generate cash fast? If you ask me, charge somewhere between $500 – $800 per yellow page ads. and about $400 for a small classified ads. If you get 1 job per week, you are set. Isn’t that right?
I’ll add second technique on how to making fast and easy money on the internet in another post. Take my suggestion and try this advice. It’s not that hard.
Frugal marketing for entrepreneurs
Frugal Marketing for Entrepreneurs
How do you market when chips are low? You think smarter than other guys. Here are few ideas to get your brains in gear.
Referrals : This is what you call “Words of Mouth” Marketing. People talk about you and you get business. But How do you get people talking about you? Isn’t that pain to think about it?
Yesterday I was doing an extensive consultation with a client. His Jaw dropped when I explained Referral Strategy for his business. There was nothing new about it (at least not to me). This strategy was very simple. Contact Existing clients and give them reason (incentive) to talk about his services.
I had him create 3 different lists of his clients/ New clients and prospects. Now you have to approach all of them with a different message to provide him referral.
For example here’s what I do, when someone consults me, I give them 2 Free Critiques Coupon of their advertisements (that’s $700 worth). They can use their first critique without any obligation. But If they need a second one, They’d have to provide this free coupon to their friends/colleagues or business partner, Only then their 2nd coupon will be valid.
Now after consulting with me and critique, often business owners want to get that free critique as its not just sham, the critique is real deal. It’s helping me generate business.
Email Signature: This is so simple that even experts miss them. How many e-mail messages do you send everyday? You’re probable missing out on a simple, inexpensive marketing tool. Seize the opportunity to promote your business to a highly targeted market without spending a dime by utilizing your e-mail signature line.
If your email signature line only contains your name and contact information, you’re missing out on advertising to e-mail recipients that have opted for communications from you.
These people are key members of your unofficial marketing network. They are your prospects, clients, press contacts and colleagues and your signature line is the perfect, unobtrusive space for a unique promotional pitch.
Try these tactics to turn your “sign-offs” into sales:
? Highlight what your company offers.
? Offer an incentive for recipients taken a specified action.
? Use the associated web address for the incentive, if it’s also on your site.
? Give better visual positioning to the promotion rather than contact info.
? Play with eye-catching fonts and colors.
? Use less than 64 characters/line so that words don’t wrap to a new line.
? Write a “signature” for different categories of recipients.
? Change your signature copy frequently.
? Never miss a chance to get your product or company noticed.
White Paper Writing: This one is so underused and misunderstood technique, its unbelievable. Now Another thing you can do is create a white paper on some important topic in your niche.
You can always highlight the Obvious problems in your industry. You can always talk about changing trend in the industry. Again the Idea is to have a reason why people should ask for this document.
Now whenever a prospect calls, you can give this white paper away for free to educate them about your services and industry. This is good way to differentiate yourself from your competitors.
How much time it takes to write a White Paper? Well, not much actually. You don’t need to write a complete bible on the topic. All you need is good 4-6 pages of content and you are set. I can crank out 6 pages in about an hour. It’ll take couple of days, if you are really bad. 
So what I am saying is You can always market your business when chips are down. If you are not doing it, you are just playing games.
Ebook Writing : Can You Do it?
If you are looking to start working part time, then here’s your chance. Read on How you can do it while sitting at your home.
If you are a savvy writer with great English grammar skills, you should consider writing eBooks. It pays very well and you can do it in the comfort of your own home.It is very simple to write up an eBook.
All you need to do is have Microsoft word and the internet.
Here are few important points for you.
1. Research : Do some research first on the topic.Know everything you can know about it, read up on it and save some quotes in your favorites area. You may want to stop by the local library to pick up some books on the topic too. That will help you when writing up your eBook.
You have many places where you can look into existing content like public domain websites, albiris.org, forums in your niche market. You just have to open up google.com and start researching.
2. Layout or Outline : Next step is to create an outline for your book. You’ll decide what topics or sub topics you’ll add. Create a rough layout for starting, when you are finished with first draft, you can add or delete from your layouts.
3. Start Writing : Now all you need to do is write, write and write. That’s it. Don’t edit something you just wrote. Editing is not important right now. Just write. When you are finished, add few finishing touches (adding more sub topics etc) and then just take a rest
4. Editing : Now after a good rest, become the ruthless editor you can be… Edit out every single spelling, grammar mistake you can find. Also, give your ebook for some you know with good English to do some editing.
5. Selling it : Now You have two options, Either sell the ebook yourself or sell the exclusive rights to other marketers. You can sell rights to other marketers at marketing forums like warrior forum or sitepoint forums. There are tons of places where you can sell your product.
6. Need More Work : You can go and check out, guru.com, elance.com scriptlance.com for more ebook writing work. This is an auction site (like ebay) where people will tell you what they need and you bid on their projects.
Again, Like I said, if you want to work freelance, there is no worries to find more work for you. Just get going.
Cheat Sheet for Web Design Consultation
Ok guys, here is a cheat sheet that you can use for your web design consultation. Well I used it years ago (like in 2001-02), It was in very primitive form. Today for my main consultations like (Seo Consultation or Blog & Conversion Consultation), I use improved and modified form of cheat sheet.
What’s exactly a cheat sheet?
Well, its nothing but a simple questionnaire that you’ll ask your clients and write down answers. Depending on how you are asking, it looks more professional.
Why I call is my Cheat sheet?
My basic idea behind building a questionnaire was to help me understand my client and her needs. If I can do that and show that I am trying to understand her market and customers. I noticed the trust factor (X factor for your business) always went up.
Please remember one important thing, You always need to build a rapport with your clients so that you can not only help them provide good services but also maintain long term relationships with them.
Here were my goals while creating a cheat sheet….
1. Understanding the Market of client.
2. Understanding the mindset of client’s customer.
3. Providing solution to the needs in a way that actually helps your client’s customer.
I am uploading my cheat sheet as in PDF format so all the Windows or Mac users can use this file. All you need is adobe acrobat reader to open them… Ok. From my experience you can use this kind of cheat sheet for any business you may have. Its easily transferable.
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