In my coaching program, a student who is an upcoming copywriter recently asked where he could find clients willing to pay higher rates for his skills.

Having built a client base through networking on Internet forums geared towards start-up business owners, he now wanted to find opportunities that would allow for upward mobility within his craft.

This is a common scenario, because start-up businesses are easy to find and provide plenty of opportunities to practice your emerging copywriting skills.

I talked about three tips for aspiring copywriters in the past. I recommend any new copywriter to follow these three tips to build a track record and get to a level that makes them appealing to higher-paying clients.

After your skills are developed, however, it becomes necessary to seek out clients — better, more lucrative clients — who are established enough to pay a fair wage for your skills and, above all, your results.

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Just a quick little note that we added a “prelaunch” blog, where we will be adding previews, news, samples, and posts about the official launch of Success Chef.

While you’re there, subscribe to the RSS feed or join the email list, and view the special 70-minute prelaunch video tutorial. But if you want a sample, here’s the first 15 minutes or so of that hour-long video tutorial…

Click the video above (or the “play” button at the bottom-right corner) to start watching this video now. To view the remaining 50 minutes, click here.

EDITED: The special has been extended, possibly a day or so, since I made a mistake. (Read below for the details.)

Did you miss out on the 10th anniversary special I did last year, where I offered lifetime memberships to my private copywriting how-to site, “The Copy Doctor,” for just a fraction of the cost?

Since that time (and even to this day), I get hundreds of emails from people who missed out and want to know if I’ll ever do it again. I wasn’t planning on it since 10th anniversaries don’t come often.

However, with so many people clamoring for it, I thought about it for a while and made a decision. (If you missed out, then you’re going to like this!)

I’m ready to promote Lifetime Memberships of Copy Doctor for just $397 to a few select people, one more time, until the end of March, 2008 (ending in a few days). And possibly for the last time, too.

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I have been crazy-busy getting our newest product ready. It’s an all-in-one membership site that shows you how to create a moneymaking business online in just four steps.

We call it “Success Chef University.”

It covers everything. Every business model, traffic type, and marketing strategy. But do you know which ones you really need and why? What about outsourcing any of it?

Like following a recipe, you need to use the right ingredients in the right order. Success Chef simplifies it all for you with step-by-step video tutorials.

Success Chef is still in the pre-launch phase. However, we decided to invite you to join right now — long before we do launch — with a massive discount.

Limited to the next 50 individuals only.

The salesletter is also interactive, too. We’ve also recorded a special hour-long video to help you. That video is an education in itself! In it, we share those four simple steps to generating income on the Internet.

Check it out if just for the learning experience.

Just a quick note to let you know I’m still alive. I’ve been crazy-busy, as my wife and I are about to pre-launch our upcoming mega-product, “Success Chef.”

Over 200 videos and tutorials, and counting!

Nevertheless, I will be posting a new article next week. But until then, here’s a quick little video… Do you recognize the person interviewing me? He’s our client, a friend, and a very well-known TV figure. Yes, it’s John Daly!

You may remember him from the widely syndicated show, “Real TV,” on Fox. And now, he’s John Daly, the host of The Real Money Show. My interview is only one of a handful of top marketers John grilled on video…

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Drop Your Goals (And Manage Your Life) by Michel Fortin is a book written over a decade ago as the author was going through some tough times.

The result is a powerful look at how to stop setting goals and to start looking at your priorities and values instead — called “guides” rather than “goals.”

It’s a bit spiritual and metaphysical in nature, so please read with an open mind. However, the strategies it offers are real and practical.

I highly recommend that your read this book, which is brought to you free, and start using the G.O.A.L. method outlined in the book, with templates at the end.

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Michel Fortin: Well, it’s the same idea. Jim Rohn said, “Don’t become wealthy at the expense of others. Become wealthy in the service of others.” Every person who is happiest in this world serves others.

Whether you’ve built wealth because you produce a product or provided a service that was at the service of others or you gave value to other people’s lives or you gave your life to charity serving others, to me that is so important.

By doing that it is like forgiveness in a sense, where you can get out of that this huge feeling in yourself that you’ve accomplished something that is true to you, not something that is going to be a goal that you reach in the future, not something that is going to be true to the other people around you who you’re serving and you’re thinking that you’re just doing this for other people.

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