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Waqar S.

Direct Response Copywriter: I'll Help You Sell More

As a proven direct response copywriter & creative strategist with 200+ 5-star reviews, I help DTC/e-commerce brands, coaches, and B2B/SaaS firms acquire new customers by turning deep research into winning angles, scroll-stopping hooks, and sharp, conversion-focused direct response sales copy. I go beyond just turning the brief into words. I dig into the audience, offer, competition, and customer psychology to figure out WHAT the prospect needs to believe before they’ll take action. Then I build the core angle, messaging, and copy around that key insight. Here's what one recent client said: "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Waqar took a rough outline, understood the offer & turned it into tight, conversion-focused sales page copy." DIRECT RESPONSE COPY & CONVERSION ASSETS I WRITE: • Meta Native Ads: Research-driven hooks, angles, and concepts optimized to blend into the feed, spark curiosity, and move cold prospects into the funnel. • Presell Advertorials & Listicles: Story-driven pre-sell pages that bridge cold traffic to the offer, develop the core angle, build belief, and address objections before the prospect reaches the sales page. • Sales Pages & Landing Pages: Long-form and short-form direct response copy structured to capture attention, build desire, communicate value, overcome objections, and move prospects towards action. • VSLs & Video Ad Scripts: Direct response scripts for DTC products, coaching, information offers, and other high-consideration purchases. • Email Sequences: Welcome flows, cart recovery, post-purchase sequences, retention campaigns, and sales emails designed around the customer's stage in the buying journey. • Product Detail Pages (PDPs): Conversion-focused DTC product copy that communicates key differentiators clearly, translates features into benefits, and gives shoppers stronger reasons to buy. • Sales Funnels: Full-funnel copy connecting ads, advertorials/presells, landing pages, sales pages, emails, VSLs, and upsells into one coherent customer journey. • B2B & SaaS Product Messaging: Clear, buyer-focused messaging for websites, landing pages, and product pages that translates complex features into specific business value without generic SaaS jargon or inflated claims. WHAT I BRING BEYOND THE WRITING & WHY BRANDS HIRE ME: 1. Deep Customer & Market Research: I dig into customer language, competitor positioning, market sophistication, awareness levels, pain points, objections, buying triggers, and existing beliefs to identify what the prospect needs to hear and what will make the offer more compelling. 2. Scroll-Stopping Angles, Hooks & Messaging: I don't just polish existing messaging. I identify gaps in the argument, positioning, offer, and objection handling, then develop compelling angles, hooks, and reasons to believe around them. 3. Conversion-Focused Copy: Once the strategic direction is clear, I turn it into copy that gets attention, builds desire and belief, communicates the offer clearly, resolves objections, and gives the prospect a compelling reason to take the next step. 4. Full-Funnel Perspective: I connect the ad, advertorial/presell, VSL, landing page, sales page, and email so the core idea, promise, and positioning carry consistently from the first click through conversion. 5. Implementation-Ready Wireframed Copy: I deliver copy in a clear, visual wireframe layout with section-by-section notes where needed, making it straightforward for your designer, developer, or marketing team to implement. 6. Proven Track Record with 200+ 5-Star Reviews: 8+ years of dedicated direct response copywriting experience, 200+ 5-star reviews, and Top Rated status on Upwork. MY APPROACH: I don't start by trying to come up with clever headlines. I start by understanding the customer, the offer, and the reason someone should believe it. From there, I identify the strongest angle and build the messaging around the prospect's: • Desires and pain points • Awareness level • Objections and buying barriers • Existing beliefs and market sophistication • Buying triggers and reasons to believe Then I turn that thinking into copy that: • Gets attention with a scroll-stopping hook • Builds desire and belief • Makes the offer easier to understand • Resolves objections • Gives the prospect a compelling reason to act It doesn’t matter if you need a Meta ad, advertorial, VSL, landing page, sales page, email sequence, product page, or complete funnel; I approach the copy from the same starting point: What does this prospect need to understand, believe, and want before they're ready to take action? 👉 Click "Message" and share your project details. Let's turn those browsers into paying customers!

🇵🇰Lahore, Pakistan$75/hr100% JSS4.91 (216)Since Jul 2015

Earnings and projects

MRR
$422

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#84,773 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#10,733 / 52.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$583

Last 6 months: $2.5k

World#59,063 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#7,313 / 52.9k
Total earnings
$194k

Billed in all: $195k

World#16,137 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#1,171 / 52.9k
Per project
$631

$361 in the last 6 months

World#161,769 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#16,169 / 52.9k
Projects, last 6 months
7
71% fixed29% hourly
World#28,826 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#6,448 / 52.9k
Projects in all
307

Across 324 contracts

84% fixed16% hourly
World#4,717 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#675 / 52.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$195k+$583 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$194.5k$195.0k$195.5kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 13% in Sales Letter

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #36Advertorial169 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #7Top 21%
  2. #41Sales Letter328 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #4Top 13%
  3. #64Sales Copy461 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #15Top 14%
  4. #91Campaign Copywriting507 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #13Top 18%
  5. #124Sales Writing897 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #19Top 14%
  6. #162Direct Response Copywriting741 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #24Top 22%
  7. #208Sales Funnel Copywriting1,313 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #26Top 16%
  8. #247Video Sales Letter924 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #108Top 27%