Monday, February 25, 2013

Top 6 Jobs For 14-15 Year Olds

When you are 14, you may need more pocket money to buy what you like. But ,how can you earn money? so, you must get a job, not only for money, but also for experience. According to Child Labor, it's not so easy to find a job for age under 16. How to find Jobs for 14 Year Olds? if you'd like, I'll tell you the jobs you can get and how to earn money .

Teen Writer

If you are talented in writing, you could be a teen writer. And, you can get paid from magazines or websites. If you are not good at writing, you can practice writing. Write whatever you feel like writing, whether it be teen fiction or anything else. It really doesn't matter what you write, as long as you're writing.

Top 6 Jobs For 14-15 Year Olds

How to start? You can try to start out writing for your school paper (articles, opinions or short stories). You could also try submitting to local writers' club anthologies & teen magazines often have a reader submissions section for poems, short stories, etc. These won't be paying jobs, but they might get you noticed. Also, if you are good at basic copywriting & layout, you can get people to pay you to prep their resumes. You'd be surprised how many people can't manage that on their own.

Babysitter

How can you get a babysitting job? it is not difficult to get one , just give it some time. Make flyers and put them around your church or community. If you have any daycares around your neighborhood you might want to advertise there. Sittercity.com is a great place where you register and parents looking for babysitters look at your profile and can contact you.

In order to be successful in the babysitting business you need to know the following tips, hints, and tricks.When you're ready to go in the babysitting business, don't be afraid to ask questions about the child you will be caring for; always be prepared. Walk through the house and do a safety check. Close the doors to rooms you don't want the children in. Look for hazards such as matches, hanging electrical cords, medications or other things children can get hurt with or get into trouble with. The most important thing is that keep an eye on the kids, and don't get distracted.

Camp Counselor

For getting a job as a camp counselor, you can try your local YMCA.They may still have openings for summer counselors or assistants. Otherwise, go to your neighborhood boys and girls club. It helps to have those certifications and some do require CPR.

Although the minimum age requirement for many camp counselor jobs is 16,but if you do not meet the minimum age requirement to become a summer camp counselor, you might have the opportunity to apply for the counselor-in-training program or junior counselor positions.

As a C.I.T. (Counselor in training), you would be working but not get paid. Or even, you have to pay for your work(not all camps). It seems very unfair, the camp charges you to work there! However,it's a great way to spend the summer instead of sitting home all day, and you will be paid when you are old enough.

Be a Tutor

If you have a good understanding of one subject, you can find a job as a tutor.Try go to your local youth center. Many youth centers pay tutors for math, English, History and Science in their after-school programs.

If you'd like,ask your counselor at school if they pay tutors for after-school programs at your school.

Also, you can advertise on your own and once you get a following the word of mouth referrals will start coming in quickly. You should advertise your offer in places where parents will see the advertisement. The parents are your clients.

Grocery Bagger

More and more supermarkets and grocery have opened up in the past decade. So, they often need many part-time or full time baggers. If you'd like, you can get extra money as a bagger.

Apply to the store or stores you are interested in working at.You can call them, and ask if they need a bagger.Of course,you can also go to store to ask one by one in person.Usually, you will find a job soon.

Lifeguard

Find a lifeguard class in your area. Most lifeguard training classes are often offered through the YMCA. If you can't find one, call your local red cross and ask them. If you can't find your local red cross, call a local pool and ask how they go about hiring lifeguards. They may have a private program. If you have a particular place you want to lifeguard, call them first to see if they have any special requirements.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Example Sales Letter - Five Examples of Persuasive Sales Letter Elements

I'm about to share with you an example sales letter I wrote for a real product, and I'll show you some of the elements I used to "hook" people in to keep reading, and to compel them to buy - which is the ultimate purpose of a sales letter.

Examples you see will help you to write your own sales letters, and it always helps to have a copywriter like myself explain what we're doing so you get a "behind the scenes" look, as it were.

As you read, you might want to follow along with the actual sales letter by clicking the link at the bottom of this article, either now or later, so you can see how these examples all fit together.

Example Sales Letter - Five Examples of Persuasive Sales Letter Elements

Pre-Headline To Reassure

I often use a pre-headline before the main headline, which reassures the visitor that the material to follow is going to be relevant to them, assuming they're my target audience. So the pre-headline in this example sales letter reads, "If you're a writer, ghostwriter, copywriter or article writer..."

The Headline Hook

The purpose of a headline in a sales letter is to grab their attention, and to get them to read the next paragraph. For example: "Here's how to ask for, and get, more money for your writing service right now..."

In this headline, I focused on the biggest benefit of the product, which is to get more money from your writing service. However, it doesn't have to be the biggest benefit, as long as it grabs their attention and compels them to read on. Notice how I also phrased the headline: "Here's how to..." You only get the solution IF you read on!

Paragraphs Of Power

The first two or three paragraphs are critically important, because it's where the visitor will decide whether or not to give you their full attention. So in this example sales letter, I DON'T first talk about myself - instead, I ask the reader three "Have you ever..." questions, examples of which are:

"As a writer, have you ever found yourself frustrated..."
"Have you ever felt you wanted to charge more..."

This gets them involved, and if they answer "Yes!" in their minds to any of these, then I've got them thinking they want to find out more. Then I say, "If you've ever felt or experienced ANY of these things, then pay careful attention to what I'm about to tell you in the next 5 minutes." This gives them a reason to keep reading. Remember, your visitors will read only so long as it's INTERESTING and RELEVANT to them.

The Subheadline Story

My next section immediately starts with a subheadline: "I promise this will help." In fact, I use subheadlines throughout my sales letters, and you'll want to tell the story in your subheadlines too, because many readers will first SKIM THE SALES LETTER to determine whether they want to even bother reading it.

So I always make the subheadlines tell their own story. For example, these are the first four subheadlines in the example sales letter, and notice how they tell a story for the skimmer:

"I promise this will help."
"It's time we did something about it..."
"We face two big problems."
"How to tackle them both, and make more money..."

Each one is also designed to "hook" the reader into wanting to read that section. For example, if you're a sales letter skimmer and you saw, "We face two big problems", you might want to know what those problems are! If so, you'll read the sales letter more carefully.

Bullet Points Build Desire

I consider bullet points to be one of most important aspects of a sales letter, because they are easy to read, and they can "sum up" the benefits and reasons to buy, in an easy to view format.

Each bullet point should highlight a particular feature of your product or service, and the ultimate benefits of having that feature, or the consequences of not having it. For example, here's a bullet point from the example sales letter:

* How Would You Like No Competition? How to COMPLETELY distinguish your writing service from everybody else, so clients want to use YOU, and ONLY YOU! (p44-54)

I have 19 bullet points in that sales letter. Personally, I recommend you have a bullet point for each feature of your product, convert them into benefits, and be sure to make them compelling!

These are some of the critical elements of a good sales letter. It's great to able to see more examples, and to see what goes on "behind the scenes" of writing a persuasive sales letter.

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Saturday, February 9, 2013

The Meaning of XING

When my wife and I took our first trip to California before we moved here, we saw a large population of Asian Americans in San Francisco. We had come West from Massachusetts, partly because the state we lived in felt like it was still attached to a round world, and we were seeking the new flat world.

California fit that more modern heterogeneous model of a flat world state.

As we were driving down to Big Sur, we passed a number of schools where the crosswalk had the letters "XING" stenciled onto the roadway in large white letters.

The Meaning of XING

After seeing them a number of times, I turned to my wife and said "See all those "XING" words in the crosswalks?"

"Yes I have," she answered "and I've been wondering what they mean."

Now by nature, and hopefully nurture as well, I am not a nasty person prone to pranks or wisecracks, put-downs or practical jokes. But for some reason I couldn't resist. Maybe the devil made me do it ...

"Well "XING" is Chinese for "Be Careful". It tells all the Asian American kids who can't speak good English yet that they need to watch out when they cross the road."

"That's really nice. I knew I liked California, they would never do something like that back home."

"That's right," I told her. "Only in California."

For the rest of the trip, every time we passed a school and drove across a crosswalk, we would sing in unison "XING" (sounds like Shing, only hold the end for a few seconds).

Until she finally figured it out. "XING"was nothing more than a shortened version of "CROSSING", like Xmas is a shortened version of Christmas.

After that trip, whenever one of us would fake the other one out, the Faker had the right to say "XING", as in "Gotcha", to the Fakee.

Now what on earth, flat or round, does this have to do with Internet Copywriting?

Simple...

If you've read this far, you were hooked by the story. And if I was selling "XING" soap or, more likely, a "XING" web marketing scam, you might be well on your way to becoming one of The Converted.

So here's the lesson and the real meaning of "XING".

Great or even good storytelling is one of the most powerful and seductive ways a Copywriter can take control of your mind. So be careful where you put your brain.

If you let a great Copywriter lead you down the garden path, if you give your self over to someone's compelling story, before you know it you'll be hitting that "Buy Now" button.

Then again, it might just be worth it to pay for the entertainment.

P.S. I'd also bet you won't forget the new meaning of "XING" for a long time.

P.P.S. I also know that if you tried to sing it the way I told you, you'll probably hear it inside your head the next time you drive across a crosswalk marked "XING".

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Copywriting - Its 3 Purposes

1 To persuade.

The prime purpose of copywriting is to get the reader to take a specific action. The reader needs to feel that the creator of the copy is speaking directly to them, personally. So, being able to use a visitor's name is useful here.

Also, the reader wants to feel that through the copy, the writer can show his understanding of the reader's predicament or problem. The copy may describe how the writer has a similar past history, providing quite precise feelings. In other words, the writer is identifying with the reader, and then getting the reader to identify with him.

Copywriting - Its 3 Purposes

2 To interest and enthuse.

If the reader immediately sees that his problem is being addressed and that it is being understood, then he will be interested. But to follow through to persuade him to act in a specific way, the reader also has to be enthused. Therefore, the writer can show evidence of his financial success in his, for example, PayPal (TM) and ClickBank (TM) accounts. Of course, FTC rules now mean the writer has to point out these may not be average earnings and that the reader may not make the same amounts. Still, this can be got round to some extent by emphasising that the writer has discovered a system.

3 To get to take specific action.

The action is clinched by the guarantee by which the visitor can't lose. Also there is, importantly, the clear and exact call to action by the writer, such as "Click the button now for instant access!"

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