Starting a Freelance Copywriting Guide Review
If you’ve been wondering how to become a freelance copywriter without samples, clients, or any experience then this is the best page you’ll read all day.
Because becoming a freelance copywriter sure sounds like a dream job.
No doubt about it.
You get to work from home or from coffee shops…
You can set your own hours…
Pick your own clients…
And you can earn a doctor’s salary tapping at a keyboard all day.
No doubt about it…
Compared to the normal working world of office politics, hours stuck in traffic, and being chained to a desk…
Becoming a freelance copywriter can be a dream come true.
You’ve got a minefield of challenges to navigate to make that dream come true.
If you’ve no agency experience, no samples, and no previous clients, some of the challenges you’ll face include:
- Developing copy skills clients will happily pay you for (and develop them FAST, rather than the years it takes many newbies).
- Knowing where to find clients who’ll pay a FAIR rate for your services (you may be SHOCKED how fast your bank account will shrink when you no longer have a paycheck to feed into it).
- Working out how to create proposals that will get you selected ahead of the pack of other hungry copywriters they’ve contacted
- Ensuring your invoices get paid and the client doesn’t go AWOL the moment you’ve sent them the final draft (there’s no shortage of sharks eager to feast on newbie copywriters who don’t know how to chase unpaid invoices)
Fail to overcome any of these challenges and your freelance copywriting dream can go up in smoke.
You may then face the terrible day when you have to swallow your pride and start hunting for a J.O.B.
Sadly, few of the books on copywriting or $5,000 courses guide you on how to successfully launch a copywriting career (I should know, as I’ve done a bunch of them).
Sure, they can teach you the mechanics.
But they don’t explain how to solve the challenges that decide if a copywriting business lives or dies in the critical first six months.
Even then, many newbie copywriters STRUGGLE for years to earn the bumper paychecks they were promised.
As many as two thirds of new businesses FAIL within six years.
Nearly HALF fail to make enough money to continue operating in the first year.
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