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Niche Marketing & Membership Sites: A Dynamic Duo Whose Time Has Come?

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Consider establishing a membership site around your well-honed niche marketing efforts. Could be just the dynamic duo needed to explode your Internet marketing business.The E-book writing and website copywriting business offers more rewards than you might imagine. Not only is business online thriving for many of us, we’re typically exposed to enormous amounts of new information. Much of it is stuff we can actually use. You might find some of it useful, too.

This is why I’d love to create a blog focused on the theme The Fascinating Stuff I Learn by Writing Someone’s E-book or Website Copy. But alas, when recently ghost writing an e-book with a heavy bent on “nichefying,” I learned that a blog focused this way might not be the best business-building approach. There’s not much of a market for what I personally am learning. (Or is there?)

One’s niche, I was reminded, should get right down to the lowest common denominator. In other words, it can be wasteful to advertise that you’re, say, (just another) website designer. Instead, it’s best to cull it waaay down to a specialty. For example, website creation exclusively for law firms or artists or health care organizations.

For more on niche marketing, check out:
Entrepreneur.com
– Texas A&M University (Free PDF Report)
– And this YouTube video:


We also handled website copy for a well-credentialed NYC business coach. This project led to a brush-up on the mastermind phenomena that’s swept the Internet. If you’re like I was — not exactly sure of what masterminding is — it’s about bringing together a group of talents to help strategize how to move your business or practice fast-forward.

Our client, like some savvy others on the Internet, is establishing a mastermind group by teleconference. Hers, like many others, is a membership site, where she asks a $100 per month recurring fee to participate on her monthly conference calls. I’m impressed; I’m considering joining her mastermind group once it’s officially launched. Bet I could learn lot in these sessions… Who couldn’t use the help of an online business guru?

So wasn’t the timing of Internet marketing expert John Chow uncanny?. . .

A day after completing the website copy project for the NYC business coach, John Chow issued to his email subscribers a free report for his joint venture (JV) partner Yaro Starek. Yaro is the successful go-getter behind Entrepreneur’s Journey. His new venture is called Membership Site Mastermind. Pay to join and he’ll walk members through the process of setting up their own membership site.

John Chow’s email offered a link to get a copy of Yaro’s viral report on setting up a membership site. I signed up to download Yaro’s free report without hesitation. If you’re interested, I highly recommend you sign up to get the viral report, too. Let me tell you, it is awesome.

So, through working on various ebook writing and copywriting projects, I learned a lot about two increasingly popular approaches to make money online:
1. Hone your niche down to a fine “long tail” science and then,
2. Offer your services not just on a one-on-one coaching basis, but as a one-to-many membership site driven model.

If these ideas inspire your Internet marketing efforts, we can help with any copywriting services you need including website copy, e-book writing, sales letters and viral reports.

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Copywriters Hop Links 5

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Copywriters, Copywriting Tips, SEO Press Relases, Press Release Writing Tips, Persuasive Copywriting Tips, Conversion Rates, Sales Letters

In the spirit of Easter, copywriters hunting for eggs-ellence in writing might want to hop over to these five colorful websites. Each features food for thought about topics ranging from effective SEO press release writing and why writers’ blogs are crucial for building a writing business.

@ Mashable: Make Press Releases More SEO Friendly (SEO Press Releases)

@ Copyblogger: 5 Immutable Laws of Persuasive Blogging (Writing Blog Content)

@ DailyWritingTips: 5 Reasons Blogging Leads to Writing Jobs (Blogging for Business)

@ Online Biz Guide: Useful Article Marketing (Article Marketing Tips)

@ And this bonus site for word bunnies: Wordsplosion.com (Signs The King Is Coming Soon)

Copywriting services including e-books ghostwriting, sales letters, viral reports and more are available at PetLeopard.com.

Popularity: 48% [?]

Sales Copy Writing Tips (Free E-book)

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

sales copy writing tips for e-book writing and e-book marketing I’ve done some updates to my e-book writing tips & copy writing ebook selling mini-site. For one, I’ve made a different portion of the ebook the free sample: a good chunk of the copy writing tips chapter!

You can get the free ebook download at EbookStrategies101.com. Hope you find this step-by-step to copy writing useful and purchase the full 76-page e-book.

Shameless plug aside, I’ve got to say I stay amazed by the search engine and SEO function in Internet marketing… I’d also decided to update my mini-site’s browser line, the wording in the blue band across the top of your computer screen. (The keywords you put in your browser line help people who’re Googling find your site on the first page of results.)

So I used Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool to research the popularity of key ebook-related terms. Here’s what I found:

  • Tips on writing an ebook – 1,000 (people searched this term in February)
  • Tips for writing an ebook – 480
  • How to write an e book – 320
  • How to write an ebook – 1,300
  • How to write a ebook - 22,000 (!)
  • Create ebooks – 590
  • Write ebook – 390
  • Writing an ebook – 390
  • Ebook writing software – 170
  • How to sell ebooks – 1,900
  • Ebook package – 260
  • Ebook download – 6,600
  • Ebook writer – 320
  • Download ebooks – 4,400

Similarly, I did some homework on Google’s search pages, to analyze again the competition. This shows how many different options there are for sites where something about e-book writing is available (and what I learned):

  • Tips on writing an e-book – 4,500,000
  • Tips for writing an e-book – 18,900,00
  • Tips on writing an ebook – 4,510,000
  • Tips for writing an ebook – 4,510,000
  • Ebook writing – 397,000
  • E-book writing – 54,000,000
  • How to write a ebook – 1,350,000 (but no exact match on the poor usage)
  • How to write a e-book – 48,600,000 (but no exact match on the poor usage)
  • There’s still quite a spelling war between ebook and e-book
  • Looks like e-book is winning (regardless of Google’s suggestion that it’s correctly spelled ebook)

So what did I discover, and what fiercely strategic move has it prompted? … It’s leds me to appreciate the potential value in e-book sales by actually typing THIS sentence with a link:

If you want insider secrets to

HOW TO WRITE A E-BOOK, just click!

(Hey, why fight it?)

For quality copywriting and ghost writing of e-books, sales letters, viral reports and more, visit the Internet marketing store: PetLeopard.com.

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Copywriting Spa – Here’s How to Indulge!

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Website copy and sales landing page copy isn't best as a d-i-y project. To hire a copywriter, use this criteria to protect your investment

Writing sales copy that actually sells isn’t easy. Try as you may to edit yours, it still may not convert enough traffic. Grammar, spelling and usage aside, how you position the value of your goods and services must be compelling. The benefits of choosing your service or product over the competition must be conveyed in Zen.

If you’ve tried — tweaked and tweaked again — your website copy and still don’t see the results you need, try a new approach. It may be time to loosen up. Indulge in a… Copywriting Spa!

Here’s how to hire a copywriter, one with the skills necessary to heal the sales tension on your website or landing page. But when evaluating copywriters, don’t initially consider costs. Focus more on finding the writing style you believe can distinctively articulate your offer. Immerse in each writer’s portfolio. Follow as many links to their writing samples as you can. While reviewing, make your decision based on these strategic copywriting essentials:

Organic SEO Scrub – Good website and sales landing copy goes beyond being SEO friendly. It uses your highest value keywords in the headline and/or sub heading to increase website traffic. And then uses them some more. Marketing copy should be SEO-intentional. So, actually count the number of times the writer built the keywords into the copy, and where. Can this word-masseuse help get you near the top of Google search pages? Being there will improve your exposure, which impacts sales.

Natural Wrap Treatment – Conversely, too much of the above — keyword stuffing – isn’t good. Not only can your website get D-listed by search engines for too densely repeating keywords, keyword stuffing turns off readers. Marketing copy must be SEO-friendly, but still a breeze to read. If you have to re-read lots of sentences in a freelance writer’s work, your visitors may have the same bumpy ride. Look for writers who’ve achieved a smooth SEO read.

Face Polish – Think of your website as your 24/7 salesperson. Consider the “personality” greeting your visitors. What is this “person” saying? Is the copy saying all that a potential customer is dying to hear? Copy should open up and persuade! Copywriting gurus call this the WIIFM factor: What’s In It For Me? Meaning that persuasive copywriting first addresses peoples challenges. It first strikes a nerve, and then gets into a description of how to resolve it. It gets personal and ignites a sense of understanding and trust.

Writers are everywhere online. If you plan to hire a copywriter, don’t let price fool you. Never just select the least expensive writer you find. And don’t assume that spending more will make your sales copy an automatic success. Go with the writer whose portfolio and samples speak to you. When you see, hear, touch and smell hypnotic copy, its fragrance will persuade you!

For e-book creation, sales letters, viral reports, publicity and more, visit the cool spot for Internet marketing services: PetLeopard.com.

Popularity: 5% [?]

Free Ebook – Confessions Of an Ebook Ghostwriter

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Merry Christmas! I’d be honored if you’d accept this gift from Fiercely Strategic: a free ebook titled Confessions Of An Ebook Ghostwriter. It’s a year-end review of favorite chapters written by Pet Leopard’s copywriting service. (Click ebook cover for free download.)

I learn a lot doing this work, and some of it I’ve so enjoyed learning that I compiled it all in one ebook of snippets. What’s it about? Well, like our how-to copywriting projects, the topics span the gamut. Sex. Dating. Internet marketing. Hypnosis. Being a great boss. Photography. Stain removal and more!

Eleven random — but juicy — chapters of ebook writing, some of which you may actually be able to use! That which you cannot use, I hope at least will sufficiently entertain you.

In other words, here’s a fun, sample of ebook excerpts that have kept me and the blessed freelance writers who help out busy throughout 2008. Hope you like, and please: Drink responsibly during the holidays. But only if you’re driving. ;-)

Merry-merry!

For e-book creation, sales letters, viral reports, publicity and more, visit the cool spot for Internet marketing services: PetLeopard.com.

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