$500 writing assignment becomes $11,000

And then repeat this process every time [The Writer’ s Life]( October 20, 2022 "Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today." – Tim Fargo You've just landed a new client, {NAME}! They want you to write a long-form blog post for their website. The fee? $500. At least, so far … 😉 While reviewing the project, the client shared that the goal of their blog is to attract new prospects to the business and turn them into qualified leads for their sales team. The thing is … just one blog isn't going to be enough to achieve those goals! Fortunately, you have identified loads of ideas for other blog posts that answer the needs of their prospects. Problems their prospects are literally looking to answer online right now. So, you offer to map out an editorial calendar for the next few months ($750) and write 4 blogs a month to get them 12 core posts that hit the main buttons ($6,000 over the course of 3 months). The client is ecstatic, because they will have a real content strategy in place, and you've turned a $500 opportunity into $6,750. So far … 😉 A blog post without anyone reading it is just a hidden piece of content. If the goals are to attract prospects and start building a relationship with them (which they are), we need eyeballs on it! So, you offer to put together a keyword strategy and optimize each piece for the search engines. It's an additional $1,500, but well worth it for your client, because they'll get lots of free traffic from Google, which means more prospects month after month. Your blog posts are now assets that keep on giving. Excellent! You're up to $8,250. But what will happen with all those prospects who read the blog? The second goal identified by the client was to turn the prospects into leads. You can do that! So, after writing a few blog posts that prove your writing quality and reliability, you submit another proposal for a special report and scripts for an accompanying 5-part videos series that will engage the prospects and get them interacting with your client ($2,000 for the videos and $750 for the report, which ironically is just all the blog post content edited into a single report). Now you're up to $11,000. Would they like an email sequence to make sure the leads are warmed up for the sales efforts? How about materials to support the sales team? Case studies, white papers, infographics … On and on it goes, {NAME} … THIS is why it's an incredible time to be a writer. And it's why this week I've recommended you get familiar with "all the things" you could be writing for your clients and how they connect. Remember, you don't have to know how to write them all … You just have to know they exist. One project gets you paid. The blog post above got you in the game. You learned how to write it and come up with ideas for other blog posts by taking a single program — AWAI's blogging program. But if you know what happens next in the marketing machine … or even what happened before the piece you're asked to write by a client … you can quickly expand the project by offering to write more. You have the entire [AWAI catalog]( of training programs at your fingertips … Which means you can propose whatever you want to clients, knowing you have the program that will teach you how to do it. And with our current [Infinity membership](, you can get unlimited access to every self-paced training program and business-building resource we've published to date — and every one we ever publish in the future — FOR LIFE. But this crazy offer is closing forever on Friday … so, if you want in, definitely sign up today! [>> Get the details here.]( Until tomorrow, [Rebecca Matter’ s signature] Rebecca TODAY: You Get It All for Just $249 $49!!! 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