How Long is This Gonna Take?
Posted on May 22, 2008
Filed Under Procrastination |
I got these question from a 4HWWW subscriber [http://4hww.copywritersurvivalguide.com]:
“Two quick questions for you. About how long do the section one income streams take to get up and running? Then, about how long to get to that $10-$20/week level…can you give me a ballpark number?”
Great question, and one I’m sure others are wondering about as well. Well, here is my answer:
“Well, I’ll be giving you several different ways to create those income streams…there’s “something for everyone” as they say. Some can start paying off in a matter of days, others might take two or three weeks to get up to snuff. But I’ll do my best to give you the tips and techniques to start seeing results in a week or less.
Reaching the $10-$20 per week level depends on how fast you take to the methods, as well as a little trial and error. We’ll be working with how to make real money with adsense at one point, for instance. And after a little trial an error (and some pointers from me), you’ll be able to find the keywords that draw ads that have a high PPC value—the more the PPC cost for the advertiser, the larger your cut per-click…my personal high thus far is a site that consistently gets me $1.85 per click (I can’t imagine what those advertisers are actually paying Google!).
You can believe I still actively promote that site, even with the other stuff I’ve got going on. In twenty minutes I can drive enough traffic to regularly generate twenty to thirty clicks per week, for five or six weeks. I’ll let you do the math on what the “hourly rate” on that 20 minutes works out to be.
The idea with this first section is to help make your down time (when you don’t have actively paying projects to work on) work for YOU. And, of course, it gives you a working knowledge of some of the things we’ll be working on as we move through sections 2 and 3″
Right now, I know a lot of writers are struggling with a lot of downtime. The point here is, you don’t have to sit idle and wonder where the next paycheck is coming from. You always have a client waiting in the wings…and that client is you. The same skills your clients will pay so well for, can just as easily make money for YOU. The whole purpose of 4HWWW is to show you how, and get you started quickly…that’s why I made sure the first lesson gives you the information you need to make the course pay for itself in 1 hour per month, WHILE you learn a few skills that are going to make the rest of the course pay off in big dividends.
So, if you’re tired of waiting around for the phone to ring, spend a bit of that idle time here: http://4hww.copywritersurvivalguide.com
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Danny, hello,
I discovered your blog (and you) through your terrific article on surviving as a freelance copywriter (http://ezinearticles.com/?The-4-Essential-Elements-of-Surviving-as-a-Freelance-Copywriter&id=1060719). Thank you! I teach a Freelance Marketing Boot Camp class through WritersWeekly. Your comparison between fire and marketing was on point and if you don’t mind I’m going to borrow it—giving credit to you of course.
Keep the freelance abundance flowing!
Sonya Carmichael Jones
http://www.marketingbuddha.com
I don’t mind at all. I’m glad you liked the piece!