$500 writing assignment becomes $11,000

And then repeat this process every time [The Writer’ s Life]( March 7, 2024 "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 … 😉 Today I'm going to show you how to turn it into $11,000 — and then more! But before I do, just a reminder that today is your LAST CHANCE to get into our [popular Infinity membership]( … Which gives you unlimited access to AWAI's catalog of training programs and resources — for life! Now back to growing your earning potential from that $500 project … 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 post 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 four blogs a month to get them 12 core posts that hit the main buttons ($6,000 over the course of three 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 video 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 blogs 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. 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 courses 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. 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