A quick way to make money online during the Christmas holidays

One of the fastest growing and legitimate ways to make money online during the Christmas holidays is to create a service writing Santa letters in your local neighborhood or area. This service is easy to set up online, and to get paying customers. You can make anywhere from $10 and up per letter you write, and that is straight profit. Matter of fact, I’ve been paid $50 per letter many times.

This isn’t a new way to make money, but it is still an easy market to break into because every town or area is wide open, and every child’s dream is to hearing back from Santa. Plus, parents would do almost anything to male their child’s dream come true. The trick is to start early enough before the season starts, and how you market your Santa letter service to the community.

If you are looking for a way to create this service without using any upfront capital, try putting up a Blogger blog, and design it using Christmas graphics, colors, and other seasonal things. Once your blog is up, decide if you will offer different letter lengths or hand written letters versus generic type written ones. All of this should be planned out before you implement your new make money online venture.

What I am saying is that you can offer a variety of things within your Santa letter service. Why only offer one type of letter? If you want to make the most money with this service, be creative and give your prospects some choices. For instance, you can charge $10 for a short 200-250 word generic letter that you’ve previously written, then change the name on each one you send out. If you do this, write 2 different letters, one for boys, and the other for girls.

You can also write each order or letter by hand and charge $49.97 or any amount you chose. This way, the parents get a choice as to what they buy, and they feel like they got their money’s worth. Best of all, you come up smelling like a rose, with the potential of keeping or retaining that client for the next Christmas season. Better yet, these happy customers may start a viral effect and tell everyone they know about your new service.

Of course you will have to write up some letters so you have samples for people to look at when they visit your blog, so be sure to write a few before you put your blog up, and offer a good variety.

You will also want to write a sales pitch for your prospects to see when they7 arrive at your blog. Don’t worry, it isn’t hard to do. The pitch does not have to be of great length. Be honest about what you are doing, why you are running this service, and how this service will benefit the children, parents, grandparents, etc ... And yes, it is important for the benefits of both parties to be mentioned so you get more sales. If you get stuck, try looking at other people’s sales pitches that are in the same market. Just remember, do not ever copy other webmaster’s stuff. It is against the law, and besides, you want to be as original as you can because you become more believable to your prospects in the end.

After you get about 5 letters written, go to PayPal.com and open an account so you can accept online payments from your customers. Put a PayPal button in your sales pitch. You can get the buttons right there in your PayPal account. If you are offering two or three different types of services, put separate buttons for each pay grade, and label them so prospects will know what they are paying for. I usually put something like “regular Santa letters” and “Hand written Santa letters” under the buttons, and line them up one on top of the other, in the center of the page, not off to the side.

Now after you finally have you blog and service up and running where you can now make money with your service, how are you going to market it to the public? Well, you can do both online and offline marketing for something like this. Put some ads up in all the local newspapers, including the free ones. Visit places like the beauty parlors, grocery stores, drug stores and businesses that directly network with clients, and put up some flyers. Get your friends to talk your new service up to their friends and business associates. You can even off to do a few for free to give them incentive to tell other people about the service. You can’t beat real live testimonials.

To get traffic online, try listing your Santa letter service in some of the free classified sites, use pay per click, or have a banner created and pay to have it shown on a site that has high amounts of traffic. Do a search in Google to find other ways to run traffic to your blog. There are gobs of results and ways to get the traffic you need.

Once you get people to order, be sure to mail the letter out to each child separately. Hand write the name and address so it looks like it came from Santa himself. To gather this information from the person ordering, simple find a way to create a form for them to fill out, and add it in your order process. It is easy to do. Simply connect or link the PayPal button to the form before they pay you, or add your email address and request that they send you the information about the child (or children) and the address to where the letters are to be sent.

It is that simple, and you can make as much as 4-5 figures each month or holiday season. It is your choice, and if you get too many orders coming in where you cannot keep up with the service, recruit your friends, other parents or some teenagers to help. Offer them a 75% cut for each letter they write.
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