Freelance Advertising Copywriter Needed
Creative Screenwriting Magazine seeks a freelance advertising copywriter for a number of jobs and projects.
IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED, PLEASE PROVIDE:
1. An individualized, personal response from an individual.
2. A resume.
3. At least three samples of advertising copy writing as either attachments or URLs of specific files.Please do not refer us to a web site at which we will be required to fish around for the files you want us to view. Please identify the precise URL of each work sample you wish to have us view.
DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION:
We have ongoing needs for ad copywriting throughout the year. We seek to establish a long-term working relationship with a a freelance ad copywriter.
Currently, we have an urgent, need-it-now project to write convincing 120-word and 50-word ads for each of a number of new DVDs we are about to market.
The 120-word version would be used on a web site (using a page template we already have). The 50-word version would go into email blasts to permission lists.
The job requires the following steps for each DVD:
1. View the content of each DVD (90 minutes each)
2. Write a convincing 120 words of ad copy in our format and style.
3. Create the second, 50-word version for use in marketing emails.
4. Fetch the speaker?s biographical information from our web site.
5. Create a web page* using our page template. Insert the 120-world ad copy, the biography, and the image we will provide into the page template.*If you cannot create web pages, we will still consider you if you can write good ad copy.
You can view a sample of what the end product should look like (an ad for a DVD we already sell) at this page:
http://creativescreenwriting.com/store/dvd005.htm
We may choose more than one copywriter. If chosen, you will be given one DVD to view and write ad copy for. If we work well together, we will give you more DVDs to work on.
You can do this job from any location in the world. However, excellent writing skills in American English are necessary.
* Location: Los Angeles–but can work from anywhere
* Compensation: Flat rate of $100 per DVD after the first one, including rewrites as requested. For the first DVD, $175 to allow time to familiarize yourself with our formats and style, working methods, and web sites. Pay is on an independent contractor basis.
* Telecommuting is ok.

Posted January 17, 2008





