Your ROI for Copywriting Services

Could a copywriter guarantee the return of investment for the sales copy, email campaigns and content he or she wrote for a client? Recently, I had a few of these questions from a business owner. 

What is my return of investments going to be if I start blogging, have email campaigns and social media marketing? 

Could you guarantee that I would make money if I start doing all these in 3-6 months?

As a copywriter, I can hit the ideal client’s hot buttons however there are so many variables involved in marketing a product or service.  Here are a few:

1. Is there a demand for your product or service? Does it solve an urgent pressing problem?
2. Do you run ad campaigns or do you rely solely on organic search traffic? If you are fairly new or just starting out, that could be a hard one if you are expecting a return in 3 months.
3. What is so unique about you, your product or service? Who are your competitors? 
4. Are you engaging with your clients through social media, blog comments, emails?
5. Are you delivering relevant content that serves your clients' needs?

Those are just 5 basic questions to think through. There are many more.

Here are three examples of clients who have a blog and their results:

Client A hired me to ghost blog four times a month. Client A

does not have social media engagement 

does not post her blog posts to social media platforms 

does not have weekly newsletters

and no paid advertisement 

Basically, the blog is set up and hopefully it will drive traffic. 

My job: Is to create compelling relevant blog posts once a week. 

Result: Yes there is an increase in traffic after 6 months but nothing else. 

Client B published blog posts twice a week, sent out newsletters twice a week, has all the social media channels, posts all promo, blog posts, free reports to social media. Client B also

actively engaged with followers on social media  

sent out an autoresponder series of emails to clients to build rapport 

has multiple free reports to serve different needs 

has products and services on the blog and

has a reputable offline business before going online

runs ad campaigns knowing that relying on organic traffic alone is not enough  

knows the importance of guest blogging and engaging with a community of providers who could benefit from each other

My job: Is to create relevant four out of the eight blog posts per month, write all email campaigns, autoresponder series of emails and sales pages.

Result: Client B has immediate return of investment. Some campaigns had great success and some failed. That’s the name of the game.

Client C

blogs twice a week

has no lead generation tool (free report)

engaged on Facebook but not active in other channels

has paid ads and repurposes blog posts to other magazines/blogs/publication to get more traffic and exposure,

is reputable in the community and already ran quite a successful offline business

My job: Blog twice a week.

Result: The business is steady when others in the same field are suffering. Has increased traffic because of Facebook high engagement. Has traffic to website and referral within 2 months. Was on first page of google in 2 months.

We have a few strategic questions that could help you plan and boost your ROI when hiring a copywriter. You are welcome to chat 15 minutes on the phone with me for free. Just leave your name, email and URL and I will contact you with 3 possible times to chat. Here is the link.

Claudia Looi helps entrepreneurs grow their online presence and increase revenue with her writings. She has 12 years of travel industry and 5 years of real estate and finance experiences prior to establishing her online writing business. She is a web copywriter, travel and web content writer who is totally location independent. Claudia holds a B.A. in Social Science (Geography and Political Science) and loves traveling, experiencing other cultures and languages. She has lived and worked in Kuala Lumpur, Auckland and New York City.