New Ideas for Success in a Changing World
“From the moment I began AWAI’s program, I knew I was learning things that would change my life, and I was right … All my life I struggled to find a way that I could make a lot of money and be happy doing it. AWAI’s program did that and more!”
— Paul L.
“Nowhere else are so many insiders’ how-to secrets revealed so clearly. Thanks to AWAI, it’s quite possible I’ll double my income this year!”
— Dave M.,
Professional Copywriter
We’re helping individuals like you achieve … Independence … Financial Security … Freedom … by providing you with the tools you need to reinvent yourself!
These personal success secrets can help you …
Start your own home-based business …
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Retire This Year! …and Still Make More Money Than Most Doctors. You Can Do It — Once You Know the Proven Secrets to Writing a Simple Letter
Learn about the fun and lucrative world of writing promotional letters for the $2.3 trillion direct-response industry. These are the same letters you see in you mailbox and get via the Internet every day. They do everything from persuade you to buy a product or service to donate to your favorite charity.
These letters earn millions of dollars for the companies that send them — and anywhere from $40,000 to $200,000+ per year for the people who write them.
10 Reasons AWAI’s Copywriting Program
Is The Best You’ll Ever See
1. It’s jam-packed with proven secrets, tips, and techniques that have sold billions of dollars worth of products through the mail.
2. It introduces you to all aspects of the industry — from what you need to know about the copywriting business … to writing powerful letters…to launching your new career.
3. Our Board of Copy Advisors is made up of some of the most successful copywriters, marketers and direct response company owners in the country. (You couldn’t be hooking up with a better group of people.)
4. The AWAI program is entirely hands on. You actually “write while you learn”… so you can begin building a body or work you can use to break into the business quickly.
5. You can complete the program entirely at your own pace. You can take a year or finish in six weeks or less! (And students are constantly telling us how fun it is!)
6. The $10,000 challenge! Everyone who takes the program has an opportunity to write and be paid ten grand for their first letter.
7. Our reputation for producing top-notch writers is unsurpassed. That’s why so many of the biggest direct mail companies in the world are constantly coming to us looking for writers.
8. Everything we do is geared to helping you succeed. Because when you succeed — we succeed.
9. Even if you’re not interested in becoming a professional copywriter, the selling and marketing knowledge you’ll gain from this program will help you in any business you happen to be in.
10. A 100%, no-nonsense, no quibble guarantee. If you happen to decide copywriting is not for you, just let us know within the first 30 days. We’ll refund every dime you’ve paid us.
And, if you don’t consider yourself a writer … that’s even better. If you can write like you talk and follow some simple, yet powerful techniques, you can create a life where you’ll enjoy the kind of personal and financial freedom most people only dream about.
American Writers & Artists Inc. is the country’s pre-eminent copywriting development organization.
AWAI's Accelerated Program for Six-Figure Copywriting: $457 or start today
for just $39 with 12 additional payments of $39 each.
24 Insider Masters-Level Copywriting Secrets
that Will Help You Leap Over Your Competition
and Reach a Six-Figure Income
If you are ready to take your copywriting to a higher level, the AWAI Master’s program is right for you. You’re going to learn and know all the tricks and secrets Michael, Don, Paul and countless other masters use to produce winning sales copy … letter after letter … month after month. For example, you’ll learn:
- The Secret of Transparency (Session #3) Make a product appear invisible. Get the edge on your competition! (Most copywriters are clueless about this technique.)
- Writing Masterful Leads (Session #4) Second to the headline as the most important part of your letter. The lead will make or break your package. You only have a few seconds to keep Mr. Prospect interested so he reads your offer. (You’ll discover how to make yours jump off the page and be irresistible.)
- How to Write Great Bullets (Session #5) Transform marginal bullets into compelling winners with these four elements. (From now on, you won’t ever write another bullet again without consulting this chapter.)
- Mastering the Magalog (Session #15), one of the highest-paying forms of direct mail …
- Business-to-business copywriting (Session #18), opening up an entire new audience for your work …
- Secrets of Writing Fundraising Letters (Session #17), which could show you how to raise millions of dollars for your favorite causes …
- Plus much, much more!
AWAI’s basic copywriting program has given you everything you need to have a solid understanding of copywriting. But, it’s like being a journeyman NBA player. The Masters program lets you compete with the Michael Jordan’s and the Shaquille O’Neal’s of the copywriting business.
You have a lot more skill …
You’re much more confident in your copywriting abilities …
You’re using sophisticated, advanced secrets that propel your copy to a much higher level.
And, oh yes … The money’s better. Much better.
The industry doesn’t just need new copywriters. It needs Master Copywriters. This program will take you to the next level. Join us today.
The AWAI Master’s Program: $890.00 or start today for just $39 with 23 additional payments of $39 each.
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Turn Your Copywriting Dreams into Reality in Just Three Days … AWAI’s FastTrack to Copywriting Success Bootcamp
November 12-15, 2008 — Delray Beach, Florida
Get ready to say goodbye to your “day job” and make the leap to a working copywriter earning six figures—or more—faster than you ever thought possible at this year’s Bootcamp.
At Bootcamp you’ll:
- Rub elbows with the Masters
- Discover the secrets to success in the hottest direct-mail areas today
- Meet with real clients and find out exactly what they want
- Learn how to deliver winning packages every time
- See for yourself how you can have the time, money and freedom you’re looking for as a freelance copywriter
- Connect with actual representatives from many of the industry’s biggest direct-response companies at the Job Fair.
- Strengthen your core copywriting skills with the very Masters who developed these winning techniques.
If you’re serious about taking your success commitment to the next critical level – Bootcamp is the one event you need to attend to give your copywriting career the kick-start you’ve been looking for.
To reserve your spot for 2008, click here…
“I landed my first paid copywriting assignment two months after I attended AWAI’s FastTrack to Success. Six months later, I had all the work I could handle.”
— Krista J., Roswell, GA
“I’ve been to the AWAI Bootcamp for the past two years and I wouldn’t miss it for the world. Every year I learn more than the year before… but most of all, each year Bootcamp becomes the launching pad for new projects, new clients, and most of all, better copy.”
—Marcella A., Cincinnati, OH,
Target Marketing Group & AWAI have joined
forces to bring you a constant flow of
control-beating insights and ideas.
And, best of all … we show you how to
apply them to your copy.
Inside Direct Mail for AWAI is a tool that every copywriter should have …
- Know what’s happening now in the world of direct response, and …
- Know exactly how to apply what’s working in today’s market to the copy you’re writing.
In each issue you’ll find:
- Featured Mailing – Each month, we analyze a current promotion in the mail. You’ll learn about what strategies the writer used and why. Plus how the design and format of the promotion contributed to its success. Each article contains an “Idea in Action” highlighting one idea you can start using immediately.
- Feature Article – “How to work smarter” is the theme woven throughout every word, sentence and paragraph of our new publication, and the feature article of the month is no exception. You’ll learn about the latest industry trends and innovations that will help you become better at some aspect of our business.
- Straight Talk – Every month, our “Straight Talk” interview session gives you an informative and revealing glimpse into one of the top marketing minds in our business. Whether it’s a copywriter talking about his latest control or a direct marketer talking about a specific niche market, you’ll always find something interesting and useful to take away.
- Editor’s Notebook – Inside Direct Mail Editor Ethan Bolt examines a trend or issue of concern to those of us in the direct-response industry. Ethan, as you may well expect, has his finger on the pulse of the direct-response and copywriting industry – so if it’s relevant and something you need to know, you’ll read about it here.
- And more!
If you’re a working copywriter – or striving to be one – this is a resource that you shouldn’t be without. It’s a tool you can use to ratchet up your copy immediately.
Inside Direct Mail for AWAI: $99 for 12 issues
Top Web-Copy Consultant to Yahoo, Microsoft, and Disney Wants to Show You How to Write Blockbuster Web Copy in Record Time……Even If You’re a Complete Internet “Rookie”!
(Discover the shortcut secrets to writing world-class Web copy that are proven to increase online sales by 100%… 250%… even 800%!)
Writing copy for the Web is NOT the same as writing offline copy. There are key differences that can spell the difference between success and disaster.
But for the first time in his career, online copywriting expert Nick Usborne has finally agreed to reveal all of his secrets in the most comprehensive program for writing top-notch blockbuster Web copy in record time. Regardless of experience.
This program is unlike any other. It’s been organized in a very easy-to-follow, logical way that anyone can understand, in four easy-to-digest sections…
Section 1: The nuts and bolts behind good Web copy.
You’ll find out why the web is such a different marketing medium, and discover the secrets that separate expert web copywriters, from those who fail by treating the web as "just another medium".
Section 2: Proven strategies to create Web pages that sell.
You’ll learn how to write the many different types of pages on a web site, including home pages, landing pages, sales pages, subscription pages and more, while discovering dozens of simple, proven approaches that dramatically increase results.
Section 3: Writing emails, e-newsletters, and blogs.
You’ll learn how to write promotional emails, customer service emails, e-newsletters and other communication vehicles. Plus you’ll find out the key to writing great subject lines, links that drive results, tips on building relationships and so much more.
Section 4: Nick’s “million-dollar” tips for blockbuster Web copy.
You’ll learn dozens of proven, actionable tips you can apply immediately to websites, emails and e-newsletters. Any one of these tips could result in a dramatic growth in sales or subscriptions, without hours of applying it.
You’ll get all of these secrets, as well as Nick’s e-book “Writing Rituals,” plus a collection of Web-copywriting gems – every article Nick has ever authored on the subject… all yours to devour and profit from.
So whether you’re looking for a new freelance business opportunity, looking to work from home, looking to increase your own business sales, or want to earn more money, Nick Usborne’s Million Dollar Secrets for Online Copywriting can be your ticket to success!
Nick Usborne’s Million Dollar Secrets for Online Copywriting: $497
How to Make a Fortune
As an Email Copywriter —
in As Little As 10 Minutes Per Day!
If you want to learn how to write powerful email promotions, there is no better expert than Matthew Furey. Matthew is the undisputed master of short-form email copywriting.
Matthew has a gift for explaining complex things very simply. He gets to the point … and he makes sure you understand it. And the best thing is that you don’t even have to have written copy before. Not a single line. But, as Matthew promises, if you can talk, he can teach you how to write killer email copy that can earn you $100,000 or more per year.
The bottom line is … mastering Matthew’s secrets of short-form copywriting can make you a lot richer. Either by writing for other people who have online businesses or by writing to your own customers and clients.
As you can imagine, attending one of Matthew’s seminars is not cheap. It typically costs $5,000.00 per person per event.
But here’s the great thing …
Matthew’s private, closed-door seminar, the Furey Formula for Making a Fortune With Email was recently recorded and is now available through AWAI for only a fraction of the cost that attendees paid for the same expert knowledge.
The program includes DVDs and CDs of the event, as well as the manuals that were passed out.
Plus, as a special bonus, AWAI is also going to include the highlights from Matthew’s Zero Resistance Writing seminar held the day before the email seminar – another $500.00 value.
Matthew has made millions from the emails he’s written, and many of his seminar attendees are now prospering from the emails they’ve written as well.
And now you can, too.
Don’t miss this opportunity to tap into Matthew’s vast email copywriting knowledge and start making your own fortune today.
A Resource So Potent It Turns Average Copywriters Into Great Ones and Great Ones Into Legends…
Copywriting Genius: The Master Collection is your resource for uncovering the secrets behind the strongest direct-response promotions today, and then understanding how to apply them to your own promotions.
You’ll get 24/7 access to 64 blockbuster direct-response promotions that blew the doors off the existing controls. Letters that brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars — mailing after mailing. Some of which have been mailing four or five years!
They’re known in the industry as “grand-slam homeruns” …
But that’s not all. You’ll also get a thorough analysis of precisely what it is that made the letter great. The editorial team goes on to break down the featured promotion section by section for you. You’ll get their critique of the format, headlines, subheads, product positioning, bullets, offer, false close, actual close, order device…every element that goes into a winning package.
And to make sure you’ve got everything you need, you’ll even get an in-depth and revealing interview with the writer of the letter. You’ll get inside the heads of the greatest copywriters of our day and hear firsthand the deep, powerful, and useful insights from the copywriter himself.
Special Bonus …
As if this collection wasn’t enough, you’ll also get access AWAI’s $20K Secret Series – a 20 report series containing an in-depth look at a 20 different copywriting secrets that each have the potential to boost your income by $20,000 within the next year.
Copywriting Genius: The Master Collection – it’s like having your own private library of the world’s most successful promotions – along with all the secrets that make them work so well!
The secrets of how master copywriters conjure up promotions to bring in millions of dollars could hold critical answers for you in your own career.
Copywriting Genius: Master Collection: $497
Creative Rules for the 21st Century — the Richest Resource of Copywriting Secrets for Today’s Market
People react to copy and marketing techniques differently from one generation to the next… even from one year to the next. So in order to drive response through the roof, you need to understand everything it takes to write effective copy today.
Introducing Creative Rules for the 21st Century – your definitive guide to the latest, most up-to-date techniques, formulas and rules for writing powerful, persuasive copy — including new copywriting “tricks” never before in print!
In this brand-new, 239-page program, industry legend Herschell Gordon Lewis shows you…
- What’s working on envelopes today… and what not to say.
- Why you shouldn’t use “Dear Friend” anymore -- and 14 suggestions of what to use instead.
- Three little words that immediately melt the reader’s objection to a statement he might otherwise reject.
- What never to put on a lift note -- a common mistake that destroys its impact.
- Six appeals to use when writing to seniors… 12 “no-no” words to avoid when writing a fundraising appeal… and 12 “power words” that get donors to respond.
- Why the staple of sales letters for the last 50 years — the Johnson Box — is dead… and what to use instead.
- Rules for Internet copy… what not to use in email subject lines… and a simple device to boost response in email marketing copy.
- Something you should never do in direct-response print ads or direct mail… but which can help your email message bypass the spam filters.
- Why “20-year guarantee” outpulled “lifetime guarantee” in a test… why you should never use asterisks or footnotes in sales copy… and what works even better than facts when you have to back up a claim.
- And so much more!
In Creative Rules for the 21st Century, Herschell shows you how to be in command of every word… every nuance… and every reaction by your reader. And he gives you dozens and dozens of examples to boost the power of your copy.
This is the most timely, up-to-date copywriting resource you’ll ever see… Order today!
Creative Rules for the 21st Century: $299 $199
Imagine an Untapped, Virtually Unlimited Market for Freelance Copywriters With Almost No Real Competition…
Do you dream of writing for a market where the work is plentiful … the pay scales are generous … the assignments are fascinating … and the competition is scarce? If so, you might want to consider your options as a Business-to-Business copywriter — writing copy that helps businesses sell their products and services to other businesses, rather than to consumers.
The market’s huge — $6.5 trillion to be exact — and B2B companies are often desperate to find skilled copywriters to write for them … writers who understand their needs and can give them clear, concise, compelling copy that motivates the business buyer.
Whether newbie or seasoned pro, if you’re looking for a copywriting market unlike anything you’ve seen or heard of before, you’ll definitely want to check out AWAI’s brand-new program Secrets of Writing for the Business-to-Business Market, written by 10-year B2B copywriter, Steve Slaunwhite.
Steve’s jam-packed this program, covering every aspect of B2B copywriting, including such hot topics as:
- Why B2B companies need copywriters so badly … and what YOU need to know to get the work
- How to write copy for all three B2B markets: Fortune 500 companies, midsize companies and small businesses
- Why you don’t need any technical background or knowledge to handle B2B copywriting assignments with confidence and success
- 33 little-known techniques for writing more powerful — and more potent — B2B copy
- How you can make $100,000 a year or more strictly from B2B work or as a complement to your other copywriting projects
And there’s much, much more. Can you imagine what it would be like to write for prestigious Fortune 500 companies and have them pay YOU for your expertise? AWAI can help make this dream a reality.
Secrets of Writing for the Business-to-Business Market: $399
Become a Master Catalog Copywriter!
The number of catalogs in the U.S. today now exceeds 10,000. And every word in every catalog — whether it centers on fashion, sports, industrial supplies, electronics, or countless other product specialties — comes from the keyboard of somebody like you.
As you know just by looking at the various catalogs that come your way in the mail or online, some of that catalog copy stimulates your buying impulse, and some doesn’t. That can be true even within the pages of a single catalog.
That’s why effective catalog copywriters are in such high demand. It’s a copywriting niche that requires special skills. But because these are skills you can learn, you don’t have to be a "born" catalog copywriter. Plus, it doesn’t take a lot of time … and the money’s good. Better than good, actually … it pays on average $100 an hour.
If you learn and follow the principles and techniques in AWAI’s new program, Secrets of Writing for the Catalog Market, you’ll be qualified to write copy for any catalog — consumer or business. Yes, you’re reading that right … ANY catalog!
As you’ve come to expect from any AWAI program, you’ll be learning from the best of the best — expert catalog copywriter Herschell Gordon Lewis, author of 28 books including Catalog Copy That Sizzles. You’ll learn …
- What works and what’s changed in the catalog industry in the last 10 years
- How to beef up information without altering facts — the secret to writing good, lean, effective catalog copy
- How to master surprisingly simple techniques that make dull information seem irresistible
- How to appeal to all the senses to make your copy jump off the page
- The secret of the benefit/benefit/benefit principle
- How to jumpstart your career with Target Marketing’s list of catalog marketers
- And much more!
Suppose you had, at your fingertips, a resource full of all the most powerful catalog copy secrets — secret words, secret phrases, secret paragraph structures, secrets to overcoming buyer resistance … secrets, in other words, to turning browsers into buyers. That’s what marketers in the catalog business want. And that’s what you can deliver, once you know and understand the kind of writing secrets revealed in AWAI’s Secrets of Writing for the Catalog Market.
Why not break into this huge and growing market for copywriters, right now? Order this brand-new program today!
Secrets of Writing for the Catalog Market: $399
Secrets of Writing for the Christian Market
Because You’re Passionate About Writing for a Higher Purpose…
Combine Your Two Biggest Passions Into a New andFulfilling Career in this Emerging $7.5 Billion Market!
Now you can combine your passion for writing great copy and your spiritual passion into a new and fulfilling career in the Christian Market. This exciting, emerging frontier in copywriting is hot right now… and shows every sign of growing hotter. This market is so new, it’s crying for skilled copywriters. Copywriters who are trained in the secrets of writing strong, successful copy in general. And trained in the secrets of writing for this special market.
With AWAI’s new program Secrets of Writing for the Christian Market you’ll discover the unique characteristics of this market along with all the critical nuances you need to know about to succeed.
Specifically, you’ll get:
- The comprehensive program book, Secrets of Writing for the Christian Market, which includes all the fundamentals, techniques, and secrets you need to jumpstart your career in this growing market
- A “live” spec assignment and the opportunity for your first paid assignment… a potential value of $1,000 or $1,500 or $2,500 or more
- 10 recent controls – analyzed and dissected for you – from the Who’s Mailing What! Archive… a $10,000 value
- Target Marketing’s current directory of 173 major mailers from the Christian market… priceless
Sign up for this program today and get the tools and know-how to combine your passion and your work into a wonderful and meaningful career in one of the fastest growing markets today.
Secrets of Writing for the Christian Market: $399
Secrets of Writing for the Financial Market
Break into this prestigious market niche – armed with all the tools and techniques you need to join the ranks of today’s highest paid copywriters!
If your primary goal is to change your life… to make the most money in the shortest period of time… then it makes sense to specialize in writing for the market that typically pays the highest fees, doesn’t it?
Financial copywriters are among the highest-paid writers in the direct-response industry. The royalties alone are huge! Some, like Clayton Makepeace, make millions of dollars every year.
Even if you only did half that well, one-quarter that well, or even one-tenth that well, you’d still make over a hundred thousand dollars in a single year!
Introducing… AWAI’s Secrets of Writing for the Financial Market.
Specifically, you’ll get:
- The comprehensive program book, which includes all the fundamentals, techniques, and secrets you need to jump-start your career in this growing market… plus invaluable extras like access to a database full of industry contacts… over 500 potential clients for you.
- Financial Primer - which will familiarize you with financial terms and give you credibility you need to make your writing more powerful… impress your clients, your friends, even your skeptics.
- 10 winning controls from Target Marketing that will give you ideas for powerful headlines, stronger leads, and compelling copy.
- 8 "Conversations with the Masters", a bonus audio collection of "live" interviews with the pros.
- A live "spec" assignment – your opportunity to get your foot in the door of a major publishing house… and more.
Join the ranks of today’s most successful, highly paid copywriters in the world.
Secrets of Writing for the Financial Market: $399
What If Your Sales Copy Did More Than Just Earn You a Six-Figure Income?
What if it also helped 3 million people in 29 countries get access to clean drinking water…provided safe, secure housing for 5,400 families in the US, protected 160,000 acres of timberland in Tennessee and Oregon…put 23 new computers in the elementary school down the street…
Your timing couldn’t be better for getting into this expanding and rewarding sector. AWAI has tapped the best minds in the fundraising business — legends in the nonprofit world — to create a brand new program, Secrets of Writing for the Fundraising Market. This comprehensive program includes:
- The over 100 page program book, which covers not only all the fundamentals, techniques, and secrets you need, but also many invaluable extras — such as a listing of 51 key websites and a special section devoted to the insiders’ tried-and-true methods for marketing yourself.
- A library of 10 winning controls you can learn from — a treasure trove of home-run fundraising samples that will have you writing better, faster.
- 550 potential clients — complete contact info for 550 organizations that use direct mail to generate funds and are on the lookout for copywriters who can deliver.
- Eight "Conversations with the Masters," an audio CD collection simply not available anywhere else. It’s like sitting down to have coffee with the fundraising industry’s legends.
- An additional special, in-depth report on the most effective ways to raise money online. In this 95-page handbook, you’ll learn what’s working online right now… the smartest ways to acquire and cultivate online donors… how best to take advantage of holiday and special-event appeals… and more.
- 21 Key Tutorials on Creating Fundraising Letters and Packages, a revealing special report authored by Jerry Huntsinger, the "Dean of Direct-Mail Fundraising." In it, Jerry reveals the top lessons he’s learned over a lifetime of writing control-beating copy.
- Your live "spec" assignment — a real-life assignment from an organization that’s looking for fundraising letters to mail.
Secrets of Writing for the Fundraising Market will have you earning money for writing highly effective fundraising letters… and feeling satisfied in the knowledge that you’re doing something to improve the world.
Secrets of Writing for the Fundraising Market: $399
Secrets of Writing for the Health Market
Cash in on a little-known, fast-growing, and very lucrative sector of direct marketing
This burgeoning industry routinely pays $8,000 and up (with generous royalties) for each mailing, and marketers are desperate for qualified writers. American Writers & Artists Inc. brings you the most comprehensive program imaginable to get you writing for this $200 billion market.
You’ll learn how to reach your prospect’s core desire… what voice to use… how to structure your offers… how to do research… how to market yourself to health companies… and much more.
When you sign up you’ll get the expanded program book, which includes not only all the fundamentals, techniques, and secrets you need to launch your career in this growing market, but also invaluable extras from Dana Nicholas on writing brochures, maglogs and e-promotions… candid conversations with top writers and marketers… a listing of 36 health websites… and a special section devoted to proven techniques for marketing yourself as a health copywriter, so you can land high-paying health jobs fast.
Plus, you’ll also get:
- A library of 10 high-performance health controls for health books, newsletters and more with line-by-line analysis from the editors of Inside Direct Mail.
- More than 250 potential clients including alternative and traditional health companies who are looking to hire fresh new copywriters.
- FTC Guide to Supplements
- The Guide to Marketing Weight-Loss Products
- “How To” Marketing Guide for Profitable List Selection
- Your very own swipe file of 25 health promotions
- Your live “spec” assignment – a real-life assignment from a leading nutritional supplement company. If they decide to mail your letter, you’ll get paid. In other words, you could be writing your very first health letter, and get paid to do so, within a few weeks of receiving the program materials.
Join the ranks of the elite society of successful healthcare copywriters today. In less than a month, this program could have you earning money for writing highly effective health letters and feeling satisfied knowing that you're doing important work to help others.
Secrets of Writing for the Health Market: $399
Write a Web Promo in 7 Hours… Watch It Bring in $2.5 Million in Sales… Collect Your $27,500 Fee…
It’s no secret that top online copywriters make well in excess of $100,000 a year… just from writing for the Internet. Others who are adept at writing for the Internet have launched their own online businesses…selling their own products…with Web copy they wrote themselves.
And they’re making sales of $1,000 to $5,000 in a day… $25,000 in a weekend…and in some cases, considerably more.
Now, AWAI has incorporated an amazing collection of these proven million-dollar secrets into a new online copywriting program — Secrets of Writing for the Internet.
In it, you’ll find secrets and proven techniques that are drawn from real marketing efforts… secrets that have already produced hundreds of millions in online revenue. You’ll learn:
- How to make every webpage you write attract prospects like a magnet…with compelling, hard-hitting copy keyed into the customer’s core desire.
- How to create a winning U.S.P. (Unique Selling Proposition) for your client’s product even if there are many other similar products already selling online.
- This proven formula generates millions of dollars in extra Internet sales for your clients. Discover how it works and how you can use it to make your clients wealthy.
- The secret of writing landing pages that convert click-throughs to sales. Our easy techniques transform client websites from marginal to profitable.
- How to write a 100-word online ad that sends response rates through the roof. (Easy to do once you understand that an online ad is the Internet equivalent of a classified ad.)
- The 10 most successful online direct marketers of the 21st century… and how you can get dozens of their most successful promotions for your swipe file absolutely free and without making even a single phone call.
- And much more…
Secrets of Writing for the Internet: $399
The Only Market That Pays You Six Figures to Improve Your Life!
Imagine experimenting with the latest yoga poses for golfers. Learning persuasive speaking skills. Discovering savvy real estate investing secrets. Healing through divine intervention with angels. Using mental push-ups to boost your intelligence.
All of these opportunities exist for you in the self-help market. Transform your life into a fulfilling, exciting adventure by tapping into this $8.56 billion industry with AWAI’s new Secrets of Writing for the Self-Help Market: Creating a Path to Personal Success.
This comprehensive program includes all the fundamentals, techniques and secrets you'll need to jump-start your success in the opportunity-filled Self-Help market plus …
- The Self-Help Writer's Guide to Boosting Productivity and Income
- A library of 13 winning controls you can learn from, including detailed analysis of why each one worked.
- 341 potential clients from Target Marketing's Directory of Major Mailers, complete with contact names, phone numbers and email addresses — I can literally pick, choose, and go after the clients that appeal to you the most, helping you to launch you career, now!
- A spec assignment and more!
This market is HOT – growing at a rapid rate of 7.9% a year – and is estimated to become a whopping $11.9 billion industry by 2008. Don’t miss out!
Secrets of Writing for the Self-Help Market: $399
Build Your Freelance Copywriting Business
Who’s Charging What!
Who's Charging What! Your Guide to Direct Marketing Creative Services gives you complete facts on more than 200 of the top copywriters, agencies, designers, and consultants, providing you with the critical information you need to make decisions when looking for a copywriter. These top-flight professionals can deliver powerful, response-generating direct mail, e-mail, Websites, catalogs, print and broadcast advertising and any other direct response creative.
With Who's Charging What! you'll find the most important details you're looking for, including:
- Who they are – background, years in business, awards, articles and books written.
- Their specialties – areas of expertise, preferred formats.
- Who they work for – a listing of major clients.
- How they work – lead time required and payment schedule.
- What they charge – benchmark fees for their work.
You'll also find easy-to-use format, client specialty and personnel indexes. In addition to profiling the greatest names in direct marketing, Who's Charging What! – Your Guide to Direct Marketing Creative Services also includes useful tools such as:
- Dennis LeBarron's 30-point client questionnaire, "Positioning"
- Pat Friesen's instructive “How to Select the Right Freelance Copywriter”
- "Steal Smart!" by Lee Marc Stein
- The informative "The Role Of Brand" by Sandra Blum and Karen Rice Gardiner
- "Deadline: How To Avoid What Could Be A Deadly Career Mistake" by Krista Jones
Who’s Charging What!
Print Version: $149 | Online Version: $149
Combo Version: $199
Important News for Aspiring Copywriters…
Make the Leap in 8 Easy Steps
You can make the leap from aspiring copywriter to professional copywriter with an easy-to-follow, 8-step plan.
Turning your copywriting skills into a thriving copywriting career just might be one of the most important things you'll ever do in your life. Once you reach your copywriting goals, you'll never have to worry about being caught in a regular run-of-the-mill job again.
You'll also have the peace of mind of knowing that if you lost everything tomorrow, as long as you have access to a pen and a piece of paper, you could rebuild your fortune instantly and do it from anywhere in the world.
Making the Leap shows you how to find the courage, commitment and confidence to turn your copywriting skills into a $100,000+ per year freelance career. It's just the "shot in the arm" you need to take that next, big, dramatic step in your copywriting career.
Making the Leap – A Practical, Hands-On Guide to Launching Your Successful Freelance Career: $59
A Roadmap to Quickly Landing Your First Client
You already know the many advantages that the freelance copywriting life can give you…money, self-employment, working from home, no commuting, flexible hours … But now imagine getting your first paycheck when you’re barely halfway through the program.
There’s a "shortcut" to living the copywriter's lifestyle. A shortcut that can leapfrog you years ahead of the competition. And it's not hard to learn. This shortcut has worked so well for so many of our members, we've asked our experts to put all the details together for you in a single, easy-to-follow program. A simple program that can cut months – even years – off your rise to the top.
Getting Your First Client gives you the "inside scoop" on how it works – from people just like you who've used it to build a successful copywriting career. This isn't classroom theory. It's the real deal: a hands-on "how-to" from people who've been right where you are today. You'll hear the stories of real AWAI members who started out right where you are now. You'll learn exactly what they did to win their first clients – straight from the source.
Here's just a taste of the secrets you'll discover:
- How to use this technique's almost irresistible appeal to approach the clients you really want to work for and start your career at the top.
- How to earn up to $10,000 on your first letter!
- How to supercharge all your copy by mastering these 6 simple elements.
- The "secret bonus" that this technique often yields.
Plus,
- Turn a trip to your mailbox into cash. (AWAI member Elizabeth N. did it.)
- Uncover three nearly limitless sources of prospects – found right in your home!
- Discover three huge FREE sources of national prospects.
- Master Bob Bly's proven "stealth approach" for landing assignments.
Win paying clients… with no expense whatsoever.
Imagine the jump you'll get on your new career with all these tricks in your toolbox!
Don't wait to start making money. Begin living the copywriter's lifestyle sooner. Order your copy of Getting Your First Client right now… and put your new career into high gear.
Getting Your First Client-The Copywriter's Shortcut to Making $100k per Year: $99
COPYWRITERS… Freelance Writing Success in a Box: Your Complete Guide to Launching and Running Your Profitable Freelance Writing Business
Get answers to questions like…
- Do I need a license of some sort to start my business?
- What should the legal status of my new business be?
- How will my tax situation change?
- What about contracts?
- What home-office equipment should I have?
- What kind of records should I keep?
- How do I handle copyright issues?
- How do I negotiate my fees?
- How should I manage my time to maximize my income?
You’ll get specific answers to these and hundreds of other questions about starting and running your own $100k/year freelance business. Nothing is left in doubt.
Most importantly, all this advice comes straight from the best authorities in the world: Professional copywriters who’ve already built successful, highly lucrative freelance writing businesses.
Freelance Writing Success in a Box: $99
The Writer’s Tax Guide for Freelancers:
A Money-Saving Manual for Travel Writers and Other Freelancers
"I thought I did a pretty good job of organizing records for my copywriting business, but then I picked up The Writer’s Tax Guide. That’s when I realized I’ve been doing it the hard way. Now I’m spending a lot less time tracking my income and expenses, and more time writing. Thanks!"
— Susan Clark, Copywriter
"We recommend a number of freelance businesses to our readers as a means to a better lifestyle and greater income. This guide could save them thousands of dollars and keep them out of trouble with the IRS. I highly recommend it to all freelance professionals."
— Will Bonner, Executive Director of Early To Rise
Find out where you can save… what the IRS really needs to know… how to make the most of those deductions for travel, meals, entertainment, home office, and more.
This guide also includes practical worksheets you can use to make sure you’re paying as little as possible to Uncle Sam.
The Tax Guide for Freelancers: $24.50Effective Networking Made Easy
You Could Be One Conversation Away From Tripling Your Income…
Will You Know Exactly What to Say?
This essential guide to networking can help you turn any casual or formal conversation into a $100,000 marketing effort. Use this tool effectively to either launch or dramatically improve your existing business, and you may even double or triple your income each year, too.
You'll discover:
- How to tell someone what you do in 10 words and get them interested in knowing more…
- Where to find low-key, low-pressure opportunities to meet prospects …
- Painless ways of networking that limit the amount of time you need to spend actually talking to people…
- Why your listening skills are just as important as your speaking skills when it comes to creating lasting connections…
- How to apply your copywriting skills to your networking success… write your own USP for your services… brainstorm your features and benefits… do unto yourself as you would do for others!
- How to avoid trivial chit chat and strike up strong relationships instead…
- Why you should hang out at the buffet table next time you go to a networking event… whether you're hungry or not!
- The magical power of the old-fashioned thank-you note…
- Networking at its best is not a numbers game… it's a contact sport…
- Nine most important considerations when naming your business…
- How to use your outgoing voicemail message as a powerful networking tool…
- How to package yourself professionally so you can network more naturally…
- Three ways to make the most out of your business card…
- How to let your name tag do all the hard work of breaking the ice at an event…
Effective Networking: The Fastest Way to Win Clients and Grow Your Business: $179
Get and Keep Great Clients
Learn directly from Master copywriter/marketer Bob Bly and the whole AWAI team everything you need to do, in the order you need to do it, to start (or jump-start) your freelance copywriting career to quickly get on track to earn $100,000 a year or more..
Bob answers these and many more questions:
- “Is it still possible to make $100,000 or more as a freelance copywriter in today’s economy?”
- “Are companies still hiring freelance writers? Or do they do everything through their agencies or in-house now?”
- “I know how to write, but I have no idea how to get people to hire me. Where do I find my first clients?”
- “I have no experience and only the writing samples I did for my AWAI exercises. What do I do when a potential client asks to see my portfolio?”
- “How much should I charge? What if I ask for that amount, and the client says it’s too high?”
Plus, he shares with you:
- 3 ways you can immediately land a client – even if you are a beginner.
- The easiest (and least expensive) self-promotion method on the planet.
- The quickest way to meet potential clients and build your credibility as a copywriter.
- The absolutely most-effective direct-mail format for generating sales leads.
- Should you have a website promoting your freelance copywriting services?
- How to follow up leads until they give you a job, but without pestering them
- How to write classified ads that get business, and where to place them
Everything in Bob Bly’s Getting and Keeping Great Clientsis based on experience – by people who've already achieved what you want to achieve. You get practical, real-world advice on how to succeed as a copywriter from top freelancers like Bob Bly… Joan Damico … Steve Slaunwhite … Herschell Gordon Lewis … Michael Stelzner … and many others who "spill the beans" about their copywriting specialties, success, and secrets. There’s no theory inBob Bly’s Getting and Keeping Great Clients .Just proven, real-world results.
Bob Bly’s Getting and Keeping Great Clients: $129 plus $29 a month
AWAI’s "Selling Yourself" Teleconference Series
Our Most Powerful Strategies for GETTING CLIENTS
Make this your best year ever as a copywriter. AWAI's "Selling Yourself" teleconferences are designed to show you new ways to get clients as well as new profit opportunities and new markets that desperately need your copywriting help.
Join Master copywriter/marketer Bob Bly and his special guests for this 17-session series, as he gives you the proven advice needed to start and run a successful, six-figure copywriting business.
AWAI’s "Selling Yourself" Teleconference Series (on easy to download audio files):
$59 per session or all 17 for only $379
Intimate Success Secrets of the World’s
True Copywriting Geniuses Revealed:
AWAI’s "Ask the Masters" Teleconference Series
Listen in awe as Master copywriter/marketer Bob Bly gets down to the nitty-gritty with some of today’s most powerful copywriting talents… EXPOSING their best-kept secrets for writing blockbuster copy once and for all!
In this special 3-session series, Bob pulls no punches — asking our panel of experts ONLY the most critical questions… designed to help you and other up-and-coming copywriters overcome any obstacles you might be facing and come out on top of the copywriting industry. We couldn’t believe what these experts had to say… and neither will you. Order today to hear how you can take your copywriting skills to the next level… and join the top-echelon of copywriters this year!
Sessions include:
Session 1: Conquering the Tyranny of the Blank Screen
Join Master copywriters Clayton Makepeace and Don Mahoney — who combined make more than $1.4 million every year writing control-beating copy…
…And learn their personal success secrets for eliminating fear and procrastination when facing writer’s block. Putting Clayton’s and Don’s strategies to work for you can and will help you overcome the challenges new assignments can bring.
Session 2:Finding a Winning Tone, Style, and Voice for Your Copy
If you’re like most copywriters — including some who’ve been around for decades — that smack-on perfect tone can seem near impossible to find.
But if you can develop a relaxed, conversational, authoritative voice — a voice that matches your product and your prospect — your chances of success in this business will increase by a good 50%… or more.
Join Master copywriters Paul Hollingshead and Arthur Johnson to learn about one of the most elusive aspects of writing top, control-beating copy — finding a convincing, conversational tone… for every package you write.
Session 3:Mastering the Art of Persuasion in Print and Online
Your chance to hear Bob Bly grill Peter Betuel and Steve Wexler — two of the top direct marketing "persuaders" in the world — on how they’re able to find the perfect words and ideas to capture their prospect’s imagination. You’d be amazed how quickly you can join the $300K Club… once you know the secrets to hooking your prospect and convincing him to buy your product without even thinking about it.
"Clayton makes more money than anybody I know in copywriting. And he’s one of the fastest writers around. If anyone knows how to overcome writer’s block, it’s Clayton."
— Bob Bly
"That was an incredible teleconference. It answered every question I had and a few more that I hadn’t even thought of yet. I even came away with an idea to help me organize my ideas before I start writing."
— Kevin M.
AWAI’s "Ask the Masters" Teleconference Series: $39 per session
Picasso Need Not Apply.
Here’s Your Opportunity To Make $100,000 A Year
Or More As A Desktop Graphic Designer…
Best of All, You Don’t Even Have To Be Able To Draw A Straight Line!
Learn about the lucrative world of designing promotional letters for the $2.3 trillion direct-response industry. These are the letters you see in you mailbox and get via the Internet every day. Designing these letters is fun and easy once you know the proven secrets of direct-mail design.
AWAI’s Graphic Design Success is the only comprehensive program about direct-marketing design that shows you:
- The five common elements of a direct-mail package and how to design them for maximum effectiveness. (The more effective your design, the more you’ll get paid!) These include the envelope… the “lift” note… the letter… flyer… and order form.
- How to make a page’s layout “come alive” and grab your reader’s attention. (Probably one of the most important skills you’ll have as a graphic designer.) Plus, you’ll learn four ways to increase the odds of getting your layout read.
- “Wrong” vs. “right” examples – and plenty of ‘em – that illustrate what works best and what to avoid. Once you see good and bad design side by side, the right way becomes obvious and second nature to you.
- The right way to design response-boosting elements like bullets, pull quotes, bursts, and Johnson boxes.
- Eight key elements of winning graphics – and the biggest design mistakes that can sabotage even the best sales copy.
- How to arrange copy and graphics on a page… add photographs, charts, and tables… and avoid the most frequently made color mistakes.
- The secret to stirring your reader’s emotions with typefaces, color, and graphics to get him in a “buying” mood.
- And much more…
And you don’t need any artistic talent or ability. In fact, you don’t even have to be able to draw a straight line. Because this little-known segment of the graphic arts market happens to be the easiest. All you have to do is point and click with your mouse.
By the time you finish this program, you’ll have real-world techniques you can use to design almost any project that comes your way. Best of all, you’ll know more about good direct-marketing design than 99% of the other freelance graphic designers out there.
AWAI’s Graphic Design Success: $290… or start today for just $29 with 10 additional payments of $29 each.
“Cut and Paste” Your Way to an Extra $24,000 Per Year…
(OrMaybe Much, Much More!)
Now, for the first time ever, anyone can lay out a professional-looking promotional package by simply cutting and pasting – and then charge top-dollar for doing it.
We turned to top industry designer, Lori Haller and asked her how we could empower copywriters to be able to do designs for some of the most commonly used direct-mail packages… without having to work through another complete program to become an expert in design.
Lori decided to take her own winning design templates for the most-popular, most-often-mailed promotional packages – the ones that have won her control after control after control – and transform them into easy-to-use drag-and-drop templates.
The Six-Figure Design Library contains 13 of the most commonly used design layouts including all the components you’ll need for the most-often mailed packages in ready-to-print order… along with additional envelope designs, postcards, premiums, e-books, reports, and an entire business suite with almost 40 different card layouts to choose from…
Exactly how much can you add to your copywriting fees by using these winning layout templates? Anywhere from $1,000 to $7,500 – per letter… for an easy $24,000 to as much as $90,000 extra a year if you do just one complete package a month.
Best of all, you needn’t know a thing about the rules of graphic design to get started. You don’t even need to know how to operate the graphic design software you’ll be using. Lori made sure you’ll have everything you need – right out of the gate.
That’s why Lori has included step-by-step instructions on how to use each layout and some of the basic design concepts you should keep in mind when making changes to accommodate your copy… And since she believes that showing is better than telling, she also included a series of 4 webinars. In these webinars you’ll join Lori in her studio and learn how to get the most out of your templates in a relaxed and stress-free way. You will be surprised how easy to use these templates really are!
Order the entire Copywriter’s Six-Figure Design Library – today – for just $4,299GRAPHIC DESIGNERS…
Freelance Design Success in a Box: Your Complete Guide to Launching and Running Your Profitable Freelance Graphic Design Business
Get answers to questions like…
What should the legal status of my new business be?
How will my tax situation change?
What’s the best computer/software for me?
And learn how to…
- Begin building a solid business in matter of months, not years.
- Prepare and plan for a variety of business situations.
- Expand your business until you have all the work you want.
- Stay organized, motivated, and focused at all times.
- Maximize your income, increase your free time, and minimize stress.
Freelance Design Success in a Box contains everything you need to know to start your very own graphic design business. Nothing is left in doubt!
Most importantly, all this advice comes straight from the best authorities in the world: Professional graphic designers who pull in high six-figure incomes every year… not just because they can design well but also because they’re extremely smart business people. Now, you can be one, too.
Freelance Design Success in a Box: $99
Computers… Complicated? Not Anymore!
AWAI's Computer Basics shows you step-by-step everything you need to know about computers to be successful in this business.
Best of all, everything is explained in the simplest of terms, so you won't need an engineering degree to figure it out.
You'll learn how to:
- Use menus and tool bars to find a specific program with the click of a single button, as opposed to having to wade through several programs to find it.
- Use bold, italics and underline to emphasize the most important selling points of a letter, increase eye flow and readability, and increase response rates.
- Use cut, copy and paste – an easy way to modify text and give your final draft that polished look — plus dozens of other secrets.
- Generate images or text on your monitor and breathe new life into your direct mail letters, newsletters, greeting cards, brochures, pamphlets.
- Enhance the appearance of your letter using all sorts of interesting fonts, typefaces, borders, shading, and more.
- Create graphs and tables – a great way to convey a message visually and increase your response rates – a must-have for ALL financial writers… health too!
- Transfer digital pictures (from a digital camera) to your computer and insert them into a Word document, or email them to a friend. Great for travel writers!
- Create a slide show of successful sales letters you've written using text or graphics to display your creative talents and impress potential clients!
- Perform mail merges to promote your services to multiple clients at the same time with the push of a single button!
- Organize and present information in a professional, easy-to-read format.
- Utilize the "Track Changes" feature on your computer to make edits – the preferred method of 99% of the clients you'll be dealing with.
- Revitalize your headlines and subheads with all sorts of interesting fonts, typefaces and bulleted or numbered lists.
- Create invoices, balance your checkbook, business expenses… even create your own website!
It's all here – everything you need to know about computers – from the "bare bones" basics to more advanced questions about hardware, presentation software, printers, tables, graphics… and much, much more!
AWAI’s Computer Basics: $49
Desktop Marketing for Success, Independence and Income
Small business owners may be experts at delivering their particular product or service. But 90% of them lack the ONE skill that will put them over the top: HOW TO MARKET.
With AWAI’s Desktop Marketing program, you’ll have everything you need to start and build your successful freelance career as a desktop marketer.
In the program you’ll learn the secrets of:
- Copywriting. You’ll quickly learn how to write sizzling copy.
- Graphic Design. You’ll learn the basics of graphic design and learn, step-by-step, how to create sales letters, direct-mail pieces, newsletters, space ads, catalogs, and dozens of other marketing materials that create big sales and profits for your clients. You’ll also find…
- Internet Design and Marketing. For small business owners, a strong presence on the internet is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Either a business markets online – or gets left behind. As a result, the demand for internet-savvy desktop marketers has skyrocketed – and the Desktop Marketing for Success, Independence and Income program provides you with the resources and tools you need to navigate through the fast-moving world of internet marketing.
- Marketing. The best consultants have their fingers on the pulse of the marketplace. They understand not only what consumers want, but also how to give it to them. The Desktop Marketing program shows you exactly how to think and act like a marketer.
- Plus much, much more.
You can create a new life… working for yourself… working from home… making great money with Desktop Marketing. This complete and comprehensive home-based business program will not only prepare you for your new desktop marketing career, but most importantly, help you launch it as well.
Desktop Marketing for Success, Independence and Income: $190 or start today for just $19 with 9 additional payments of $19 each
Are you missing out on these 4 great
overlooked profit opportunities?
You may be able to turn your knowledge and experience into thousands of dollars in additional income—this year and every year!
Learn step-by-step how to branch out into lucrative and fun areas of consulting, copy critiquing, training in-house copywriters and marketers, presenting at company events and sales meetings.Opportunities are everywhere, and the potential benefits are huge.
THE VERSATILE FREELANCER:
How Writers and Other Creative Professionals
Can Generate More Income by Seizing New Opportunities in
Critiquing, Consulting, Training, and Presenting
Direct-response copywriter, critiquer, consultant, trainer and speaker Don Hauptman shows you how to turn the very specific and in-demand knowledge you have into an endless supply of “non-writing” income. Here’s a preview of the great advice you’ll find in The Versatile Freelancer …
The 7 common mistakes nonprofessional copywriters make. Be sure you know them. Why? Because you’re likely to see one or more in every promotion you’re asked to critique!
Don Hauptman’ 9 key points for promotional critiquing.
The two biggest “secret weapons” of every successful consultant.
Simple steps to insure a smooth, successful, problem-free training presentation—every time.
A great way to find your first speaking opportunities—a tip from a highly paid professional speaker.
A terrific way to meet prospects, who are ideally suited to hire you, one-on-one at conferences.
A great “unknown” speaking opportunity for copywriters.
And much more …
Whatever your specialty, whatever knowledge you possess, someone probably needs or wants to learn it—and is willing to pay you for sharing it.
Isn’t it time to cash in? You can, when you order The Versatile Freelancer.
The Versatile Freelancer: How Writers and Other Creative Professionals Can Generate More Income by Seizing New Opportunities in Critiquing, Consulting, Training, and Presenting - $79
Find Fulfillment, Fun, and Freedom As a Six-Figure Information Publisher
Use your writing skills to turn your passion into profit!
Whatever your passion, you can immerse yourself in it AND make a six-figure income. This could be your direct ticket to the kind of fulfillment you've always wanted in life. Whether you want to travel the world or live as a recluse, work 12 hours a day or not work at all, learn more about golf or feeding the hungry… it can be yours if you're willing to learn.
Self Publishing: Your Complete Business Plan for Creating a Life Without Borders will teach you:
- Our proprietary step-by-step plan for getting your publishing business going… full or part-time… right away.
- How you can start with a very small amount of money and eventually work only four hours a day (if you are operating full-time).
- 11 steps to creating the perfect product, including how to review ideas, test focus, and aim at markets.
- How to gain 1,000% returns on some of your publications.
- Names, resources, and addresses of contacts in marketing and printing, plus attorneys, accountants, and internet whiz kids who can pitch in when you need them.
- Where and how to get your data and information, and how to get others to write for you almost free.
- How to choose a format—book, newsletter, list, audio or video—that suits you and your audience.
- Frequently committed marketing mistakes and how to avoid them (plus, you'll get samples of winning marketing pieces to study).
- And so much more!
Whether you are an engineer, doctor, housewife, business owner, or retiree… self-publishing offers a way to make a six- or seven-figure income by turning your passion into profit.
Self Publishing: Your Complete Business Plan for Creating a Life Without Borders: $299
Imagine… Making $30,000… $50,000… $70,000… Even $150,000 Per Year Or More – In Just a Few Hours Per Week – With a System That’s As Simple As Turning On Your Computer…
The Pro Resume Writer Program gives you everything you need to start and run a successful spare-time resume preparation service. The program quickly takes you from dreaming about starting your own business to doing it, with four easily downloadable PDF files including:
- How to Write a Resume That Gets Results (including your exclusive client questionnaire)
- Complete Guide to Marketing Your New Business (including sample ads you can use to get clients immediately)
- Step-by-Step: Starting and Running Your Own Business
- BONUS section: Successful Techniques to Expand Your Business
With our detailed guidelines, writing resumes is fun, quick, and easy. You can complete most assignments in 45 minutes to an hour. If you charge a client just $100 to prepare his resume and it takes you an hour, you’re earning $100 an hour.
There will never be a better opportunity to have the kind of part-time income you’ve always dreamed about. There are thousands of people in your area that need a resume — to get their first job… to get a better job… to make more money… or to get that dream job.
The Pro Resume Writer Program: $99
How to Successfully Write and Publish Children’s Books… Plus, Secrets and Shortcuts Pros Use to Get Their Books Published
Have you always dreamed of writing a children’s book? How would you like to create the next Dick and Jane, the next Little Engine That Could, the next Cat in the Hat, or the next Harry Potter?
Imagine the joy of seeing your name in print. Or maybe creating your own timeless classic — like one of these, which have touched the lives of millions of children…
Whatever your vision may be, we can take you by the hand and walk you through the entire process, from writing the first line to the all-important secrets of how to get it published.
Backed by a Board of accomplished authors in the world of children’s books, AWAI’s How to Successfully Write and Publish Children’s Books may be the most fun-filled, rewarding, and potentially profitable program yet for people who’ve always dreamed of writing a children’s book.
How to Successfully Write and Publish Children’s Books: $246
Tap Into Your Fantasy World and Write a Bestseller Even If You’ve Never Had a "True Adventure"
Now you can propel yourself into the most exciting career out there…with Writing for Love & Money: How to Become a Successful Romance Writer.
AWAI has assembled a top-notch team of published authors and industry experts who are ready to show you how to make your writing irresistible to publishers and readers. Our pros write for all the major publishers, including Harlequin, St. Martin’s Press, Signet, BET, Topaz, and more. Together they’ve published over 70 books, with four million copies in print.
In this program you'll learn how to…
- Hook your reader from the first sentence: Check out the examples of great first lines… discover exactly what makes them great… then write your own!
- Use this amazing "trick" to get your first three chapters written — fast! (The beginning is often the hardest part — unless you have these excellent secrets.)
- Make your audience — and your publisher — love you with these themes and storylines that work time and time again!
- Create dynamic characters: A compelling character can drive an entire series. (We’ll walk you through everything, from the way they might dress to their deepest dreams and fears.)
- Avoid first-time blunders. All of the pros have made them, so learn from their mistakes, and find out how to transform a sagging plot into a taunt, energetic story.
- Write a sure-fire ending that will satisfy your reader, and maybe make her a fan for life! Check out these no-no endings — and then try these hard and fast rules for an ending that will leave your reader breathless and ready for the next novel.
Writing for Love & Money: How to Become a Successful Romance Writer: $249
The Ultimate Travel Writer’s Program
Duane and Harlene Harm were just your ordinary retirees — bored with golf and looking for a sideline to keep them busy. After taking AWAI’s The Ultimate Travel Writer’s Program, they spent the following summer traveling to 23 dude ranches in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, staying for free an average of three days at each ranch. The total value of their summer stays? About $55,000… and they didn’t pay anything. Not one cent.
What’s more, they wrote an article for Steamboat Magazine, a high-end coffee-table publication based in Steamboat Springs, CO, that comes out twice a year. And they were paid for their work.
Imagine if you could slide out of bed knowing your "work" for the day would be to scuba dive along the Great Barrier Reef… shop for the perfect cup of coffee in Paris… or kayak from island to island in the sleepy San Juans. If you ever dreamed about the romantic life of a travel writer, here’s a very unusual opportunity to actually live it!
With The Ultimate Travel Writer’s Program , you’ll learn:
- Where to find the best story ideas and how to find publications that will pay you for them.
- How to make the most out of every trip you take by coming away with three or more articles.
- What to do and what not to do when you approach an editor so you’re sure to land repeat assignments.
- Little-known techniques travel writers use to land concert tickets…meals… vacations… and more… without paying a dime.
- Find out how easy it is to earn extra income while you travel the world… meet new people… and enjoy the freedom and independence of a writer’s life.
Also included: Big Bucks for Snap Shots. This special report (a $24.50 value) contains all of the secrets you need to know about taking profitable photographs — secrets used by some of the top photojournalists in the world.
If you’ve ever dreamed about the romantic life of a travel writer… of getting paid to explore the world… here’s your chance to actually live it.
The Ultimate Travel Writer’s Program: $279 or start today for just $49 with 7 additional payments of $39 each.
Can You Take A Simple Photograph?
If yes, you could make $200 to $2,000 a week taking snapshots in your own backyard… on your family vacations… or anywhere in the world you care to travel.
You don’t need fancy equipment. And you don’t need to know a thing about photography to get started. Turns out all you really need are the few simple secrets behind taking the kinds of photos that sell best. They’re easy to learn. And you can make $150… $400… even $800 per sale…
Over time, the sales of a single photo can amount to $10,000 or more. (See Lesson #32 for details.)
I assure you: This is something you’ll find not only easy and lucrative… but fun, too. You’ll discover:
- From amateur to pro: The three crucial components in every saleable photograph (and how exactly to master them) — Lesson #5
- The easiest and fastest way to sell your snapshots as a new photographer
- Never take a bad picture again — fool-proof tips and techniques for shooting beach scenes, snow scenes, landscapes, the desert, people, pets, architecture, rain, waterfalls, fireworks, birthday parties and more — Lesson #34
- Specific advice on a dozen broad photographic markets and how best to break into them
- Two of the most lucrative markets: Secrets for getting into commercial photography (where $20,000 a project is not uncommon) … and stock photography (where images as simple as tissue paper, your yard, or your kitchen table can sell for super-fast cash!)
- Vaseline, pantyhose, shower curtains: How to make your own camera filters
- Little-known secrets that photographers use to land free meals, vacations, and other fun perks — Lesson #53
- …and more.
This program includes everything you need to do to start (or jump-start) your freelance career — and quickly get on track to earn $200 to $2,000 a week or more.
Turn Your Pictures Into Cash -A Comprehensive Program in Taking and Selling Amazing Photographs: $429 or start today for just $49 with 11 additional payments of $39 each.
Stop Paying Taxes You Don’t Owe…Money-Saving IRS Provisions Every FreelancerShould Know About
Tax Recovery of America reports that nearly three-quarters of all US taxpayers overpay the IRS every year.
Unfortunately, in all likelihood, you’re overpaying the IRS every year.
If you want to keep more of your hard-earned income in your own pocket this year… and every year… join us for a call that could save you hundreds -- even thousands -- of dollars.
You’ll find out how you can make the most of your freelance status (even if you still have a full-time job or haven't made your first penny)… what the IRS really needs to know… how to take the deepest deductions for travel, meals, entertainment, home office, and more…
Plus, you’ll get a FREE downloadable copy ofThe Writer’s Tax Guide: A Money-Saving Manual for Travel Writers and Other Freelancers
Smart Money-Saving Tax Strategies for Freelancers Teleconference: $39.95
The Business of Writing Guide: A Practical Guide for Travel Writers
(and other freelancers) Ready to Turn Words into Profits
This guide includes everything you need to know about setting yourself up as a freelancer including:
- How to find the best story ideas and places to publish them
- How and when to follow up with an editor
- What you need to know about buying rights, contracts, and agreements
- How to use syndication to increase your exposure and boost your earnings
- What travel writers earn and how they get paid
- 9 ways to keep track of your article submissions
- …and much more, including real-life stories from freelancers who have paved the road before you.
The Business of Writing Guide: $24.50
Money-Making Travel Photography
Train Yourself to Take Saleable Photos in 15 Minutes or Less
Photos can be a remarkably strong sales tool when you’re approaching an editor with a story. They can significantly increase your chances of getting published (and earning extra income) — that is, if you know how to take the kinds of photos editors like.
In Money-Making Travel Photography you’ll find out the simplest and best camera to take with you (you don't want to be lugging a trunk full of equipment)… six ways to take saleable shots of overly photographed places… how to photograph people… and more.
Money Making Travel Photography: $24.50
The Next-Best Thing to Your Own Personal Photo Expert
Wouldn't it be nice if you had an expert to look over your shoulder when you snapped pictures? You know, somebody who could tell you, "Hey, change that f-stop for a much better shot." or "That'll come out quite nicely if you focus on something farther away."
Well, while we can't put an expert at your beck-and-call, we CAN do the next-best thing.
We can ship you a set of our Photo Tip Cards. These pocket-sized "cheat sheets" will ensure you get the best possible pictures all the time.
Sunsets, beaches, people, sports, waterfalls -- whatever you're shooting, just grab the card for that situation and it'll tell you which camera settings to use, what to look for, the pitfalls to avoid, and exactly how to get the best images.
Photo Tip Cards: $29.97
ITWPA Membership: A Sweetheart Deal for Travel Writers
How would you like to spend two months exploring the wilds of Australia… all at no charge?
You could enjoy a day fishing on the sun-drenched Great Barrier Reef… or a lazy weekend in the balmy breezes of Brampton Island, where tall palms list over the azure waters on twelve golden, sandy beaches…
Sound extravagant?
Well, that's exactly how Brian Norris spent a couple of months this past year -- and those are just the highlights. Brian clocked over 2000 miles -- and enjoyed amazing meals, fabulous hotels, tremendous pampering, and all the best activities on offer.
It was entirely free. And then he was paid thousands of dollars to tell others about it in a full-color special travel section in his local newspaper.
Perhaps you're thinking, "I could never land a sweetheart deal like that." But that's just not so. You most certainly can -- faster and with a lot less footwork than you probably imagine.
Join the International Travel Writers & Photographers Alliance today and get on the inside track for a whole host of opportunities for complimentary travel and VIP treatment. Membership in the ITWPA puts you firmly on the path to a whole new life as a jet-setting freelancer.
Membership in ITWPA includes:
- A personalized ITWPA Member ID Card, which helps give you the polish of a real pro and can "grease the wheels" when you travel.
- The ITWPA Insider, an advice-packed e-letter delivered twice a month, which provides how-to tips for writing better, traveling smarter, and earning more… plus you get listings of press trips as well.
- Top priority, as an ITWPA member, when you submit your articles to Travel Post Monthly, the ITWPA's online magazine -- a great place to land a by-line and to get your articles in front of editors looking for content for their own publications.
- Discounts of more than $200 on writing and travel related resources, including workshops, travel supplies, books, magazine subscriptions, and more.
- Access to the password-protected ITWPA website where you'll find a vast collection of valuable resources, including the 2007 Writer's Tax Guide (a $24.50 value), yours at no charge with membership.
- Your own Professional On-line Photo Gallery, a website where you can maintain your photo portfolio and send editors interested in buying your shots
Membership in ITWPA: $219 Membership is valid for 12 months.
