Become a Product Catalog Writer

The catalog industry needs you. As a product catalog writer you will be writing unique product descriptions for a variety of products, you will be writing general descriptions based on the photos in the catalog.

You can write for all types of catalogs from electronic products, to engineering parts, or fashion items. Writers are the ones that explain the features of the items in the photos, listing the prices and dimensions.

If you write for a electronics products catalog you will need to be able to write detailed descriptions, handle user product questions and evaluate new product samples, manage listings in website catalog of hundreds of products, requirements would be to know about gadgets and technology, it helps to understand the products you are writing descriptions for.

Other duties include: writing product descriptions, updating old product descriptions with corrected or changed information, working with photographers to get product photos and videos, checking out new product samples for quality and marketability, helping Customer Support answer customers technical questions, advising Quality Control on product checking procedures for new products.

In order to get the right training for this profession you will have to learn from others who are already doing this type of work. What you will find when you search on the web is e-courses and ebooks being sold on how to get clients and how to break into the industry.

If you do not have money to purchase these digital guides you can always use an old journalist trick and that is to interview someone in the profession you are looking into getting into. Everyone likes it when others are interested in what they do for a living, ask and find out how they did it, and what it takes to get started.

Other ways would be to contact catalog companies directly and ask them what the job requires and how they would like the work done, this may be the best way to find out exactly what you will need to break into the industry as well as opportunities for on the job training.

If you are a freelance writer looking for a career option that is going to have continued growth and is recession proof than you will be happy to know that according to the Direct Marketing Association’s 16th Annual State of the Catalog Industry report, the paper catalog is still the largest revenue generator and is growing.

Ways to find work doing catalog copy all you need to do is to check out simplyhired, myspacejobs, indeed.com, getafreelancer, elance, and other bidding sites or just use the search engines, other ways would be to get a list of manufacturers and product sellers catalog list and contact them directly for job openings.

Another name for a product catalog writer is product description writer, product catalog maintainer, product review writer, catalog writer, catalog copywriting and mostly these positions are done on the web for a website and also can be done for print.

What you can earn as a catalog writer in $75,000 annually. job postings in New York, NY are 31% higher than average catalog writer salaries for job postings nationwide.

In further research on this topic I found out that, catalogers will pay you anywhere from $50 to $400 for a typical description. When you consider that a single page may have half a dozen copy blocks, you can earn anywhere from $300 to $1,500 a page.

Some top catalog copywriters earn up to $2,400 per page. this means you could potentially earn anywhere from $900 to $4,500 for a day’s work!