Today, I have a job offer for you. Before you get excited, here are a couple of negative striplines to start:
First, this is not copywriting work.
Second, this not an ongoing, or even very large-scale job.
The job is this:
I have a course, Copy Riddles, which was previously delivered entirely by email. I am now converting that course, Copy Riddles, to be delivered entirely inside a members-only area of my website.
So the job involves taking the content of Copy Riddles, delivered in 45 very long-form emails, and making and properly and nicely formatting 45 WordPress pages out of it.
This is time-consuming, monkey work. That doesn’t mean I’m looking for a monkey. I’m looking for a competent human being.
I want this job done well, with minimal management or later fixing from me.
At the start of this job, I will provide detailed guidance on the technical stuff of what there is to do. I have also gone through the monkey work of converting one of these 45 pages the way I want it done, to serve as a reference.
Using these two resources, and a bit of God-given intelligence and reason, a competent person who has the minimal requirements below should be able to complete this job the way I myself would do it.
As for those minimal requirements, they include:
1. Experience with WordPress. Knowing how to create a page, and use the built-in editor.
2. Knowledge of basic HTML and CSS. Knowing what a div is, and how to add a class to it.
3. Patience. There are 45 pages to do, and each page involves multiple rote, repetitive, and sometimes finicky formatting tasks.
So far, I have tried to make this job sound as unattractive as it is, and maybe more so.
So now the question becomes, why might you want to take on this monkey work? I can offer you two and a half good reasons:
1. Money. Name your own price, or your own hourly rate. I estimate this job would take me 6-8 hours of mind-numbing work to complete. You might be faster or you might be slower than me. If you can convince me you will do the job well, and if I think your price is fair for the work involved, I will hire you and pay you what you ask.
2. Copy Riddles. I guess that’s obvious since you will be working with the actual content of the course. But I will also give you free access to the course when it is complete, including the bonuses you won’t see otherwise. The last price I sold Copy Riddles for was $350, and that’s the lowest price I will be selling it for going forward. If you are interested in copywriting — and if you are on my list, I imagine you are — then Copy Riddles might be very valuable to you, and more so than the $350 I would charge you for it otherwise.
2 1/2. Access and connection to me. The reason I am not going on Fiverr or Upwork to hire a VA to do this job is that ideally, I would love to find a competent and trustworthy person who also has the ability to write. I’m not making any promises, but there is the odd chance that if you do a good job on this, there will be other tasks, including writing tasks, that I might hire you for, and in the near future.
So if you are interested in this job offer, then:
1. Write me an email
2. Tell me why I should believe that you have the minimal requirements 1-3 above, and that you would do this job well
3. Name your price
When I get your email, I will write back to confirm I have gotten it. No need to follow up with me after that. Once I make a decision and go with somebody, I will also send out an email to everyone who applied so you’re not left hanging.
That’s it. Thanks for reading to the end. Let the Battle Royale begin.