Hey y’all,
The purpose of this thread is to keep track of my progress:
To get my first paying client as a freelance Copywriter and keep getting clients to have funds to start an eCommerce Brand.
Why don’t you just start your eCommerce Brand, E?
I choose to start with freelance work because I don’t have much funds to pay for traffic or purchasing inventory right now.
I’ve also heard that it’s easier to start freelancing by doing a service I also know how to do.
But here’s the short version of my backstory:
I have plenty interests and know how to do a bit of a lot of things.
AND have been attacked by the shiny object syndrome for years. It makes me sick just thinking bout it lol.
For the past few years I’ve been in the tech field. Mainly tech support and customer service jobs.
My current day job is as a software tester (QA Engineer). Been in that position for a year now.
I know the very basics of coding (python, javascript). VERY little lol.
When I separated from the military in 2014, I found this group online on starting own SEO company - paid them bout $3K to learn. (I know, I know lol). I think the group was called Job Killin’ or something.
I was very good at getting results by following their method: Set up website using Weebly, write all the website content for industry, create local citations, create FB group, network to exchange Backlinks, paid traffic using Google, set up certain phone service to record phone calls.
But the reason I stopped being active with them and pursuing that is because I sucked at selling the leads I was getting from my websites.
You see, they taught us to cold call businesses, get them to do a trial run with us then pay.
Seemed like everyone was makin bank except for me.
Sales just wasn’t my thing at that time.
A year later I got a job with Apple store as a sales person basically lol.
After Apple, I began learning shit ton of tech stuff.
Last year I was introduced to copywriting and sales.
I was attracted to copywriting because I could eventually get paid royalties by clients for successful controls, or sales letters.
And I enjoy writing and research.
Now I understand sales is important in every day life. And it = $
I still like tech stuff, like creating websites with Wordpress, Shopify, etc.
I tried dropshipping but ran out of funds to even get started good.
So here I am.
I read TMF a few years ago. Even joined this forum but wasn’t active for longer than a day.
Read Unscripted . Just bought the audio version yesterday to listen to on my daily 2 hour commute. :-/
So again, I’ll track my progress with this thread.
Also for accountability. Because now that I said something , I GOTTA keep my word. [emoji30]
-E
@BlackMagician
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The purpose of this thread is to keep track of my progress:
To get my first paying client as a freelance Copywriter and keep getting clients to have funds to start an eCommerce Brand.
Why don’t you just start your eCommerce Brand, E?
I choose to start with freelance work because I don’t have much funds to pay for traffic or purchasing inventory right now.
I’ve also heard that it’s easier to start freelancing by doing a service I also know how to do.
But here’s the short version of my backstory:
I have plenty interests and know how to do a bit of a lot of things.
AND have been attacked by the shiny object syndrome for years. It makes me sick just thinking bout it lol.
For the past few years I’ve been in the tech field. Mainly tech support and customer service jobs.
My current day job is as a software tester (QA Engineer). Been in that position for a year now.
I know the very basics of coding (python, javascript). VERY little lol.
When I separated from the military in 2014, I found this group online on starting own SEO company - paid them bout $3K to learn. (I know, I know lol). I think the group was called Job Killin’ or something.
I was very good at getting results by following their method: Set up website using Weebly, write all the website content for industry, create local citations, create FB group, network to exchange Backlinks, paid traffic using Google, set up certain phone service to record phone calls.
But the reason I stopped being active with them and pursuing that is because I sucked at selling the leads I was getting from my websites.
You see, they taught us to cold call businesses, get them to do a trial run with us then pay.
Seemed like everyone was makin bank except for me.
Sales just wasn’t my thing at that time.
A year later I got a job with Apple store as a sales person basically lol.
After Apple, I began learning shit ton of tech stuff.
Last year I was introduced to copywriting and sales.
I was attracted to copywriting because I could eventually get paid royalties by clients for successful controls, or sales letters.
And I enjoy writing and research.
Now I understand sales is important in every day life. And it = $
I still like tech stuff, like creating websites with Wordpress, Shopify, etc.
I tried dropshipping but ran out of funds to even get started good.
So here I am.
I read TMF a few years ago. Even joined this forum but wasn’t active for longer than a day.
Read Unscripted . Just bought the audio version yesterday to listen to on my daily 2 hour commute. :-/
So again, I’ll track my progress with this thread.
Also for accountability. Because now that I said something , I GOTTA keep my word. [emoji30]
-E
@BlackMagician
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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