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Hey there,
Found this forum after a very discouraging day digging through all the BS people market towards copywriters who don't know any better (yours truly, 4 hours ago).
My name's Miranda. After graduating summa cum laude from a lib arts college, I realized I only gave a damn about copywriting.
In less than 7 months, I rose to front-page prominence on a very popular freelancing website I shall not name. Hundreds of projects completed, all with a perfect star rating.
But the clients on that website? They're entrepreneurs in the LOOSEST sense of the word.
I've watched one business scheme after another crash and burn, while averting my eyes and taking my paltry pennies straight to the bank.
But still...
With plenty of clients being spoonfed to me and a full-time WFH job with better rates than many writers who have been doing this for years, I should be happy. After all, I've hit five figures my first year freelancing, with minimal effort put into building my own platform. I'm in almost constant demand.
I should be happy...but I'm not.
I don't care about being a millionaire myself. Inventing a product. Drop-shipping. Curing cancer.
I just want to copywrite. And that's it.
And I have no idea how to find REAL clients...how to make a real business...and how to distinguish myself from an unwashed mass of "barefoot writers."
I want to write for people who know what they're doing.
Why? Because I'm tired of nutjob clients. One guy dumped 50k into a motorcycle clothing website, then turned around to become a "GURU" for his brother's MLM. He gave up on marketing that 50k website after a week.
Another tried to bestow her marketing firm on me, then ghosted me when I said no.
Yet another sent me pictures of his baby momma's new kid, claiming we were friends forever, and I haven't heard from him in months...
If you've read this far, thanks for letting me b*tch.
And despite my world weary, millennial attitude, I promise I'm nice.
If you've got any advice -- even if I've heard it before -- I'm all ears.
Cheers,
JFCopy / Miranda
Found this forum after a very discouraging day digging through all the BS people market towards copywriters who don't know any better (yours truly, 4 hours ago).
My name's Miranda. After graduating summa cum laude from a lib arts college, I realized I only gave a damn about copywriting.
In less than 7 months, I rose to front-page prominence on a very popular freelancing website I shall not name. Hundreds of projects completed, all with a perfect star rating.
But the clients on that website? They're entrepreneurs in the LOOSEST sense of the word.
I've watched one business scheme after another crash and burn, while averting my eyes and taking my paltry pennies straight to the bank.
But still...
With plenty of clients being spoonfed to me and a full-time WFH job with better rates than many writers who have been doing this for years, I should be happy. After all, I've hit five figures my first year freelancing, with minimal effort put into building my own platform. I'm in almost constant demand.
I should be happy...but I'm not.
I don't care about being a millionaire myself. Inventing a product. Drop-shipping. Curing cancer.
I just want to copywrite. And that's it.
And I have no idea how to find REAL clients...how to make a real business...and how to distinguish myself from an unwashed mass of "barefoot writers."
I want to write for people who know what they're doing.
Why? Because I'm tired of nutjob clients. One guy dumped 50k into a motorcycle clothing website, then turned around to become a "GURU" for his brother's MLM. He gave up on marketing that 50k website after a week.
Another tried to bestow her marketing firm on me, then ghosted me when I said no.
Yet another sent me pictures of his baby momma's new kid, claiming we were friends forever, and I haven't heard from him in months...
If you've read this far, thanks for letting me b*tch.
And despite my world weary, millennial attitude, I promise I'm nice.
If you've got any advice -- even if I've heard it before -- I'm all ears.
Cheers,
JFCopy / Miranda
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