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Ever Landed Copywriting Gigs in Unusual Ways (Like These Folks Have)?

December 5, 2011

In the November E-PUB (here and adapted below), I wrote a piece about finding commercial writing jobs in unlikely places. Thought I’d make it blog post, in order to collect your stories about landing copywriting work in cool and unplanned ways.

I love it when work comes from unexpected directions. In The Well-Fed Writer, I talk [...]

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This Writer’s Clients Give Him a Check Every Month (Thanks to a Tough Economy…)

June 30, 2011

So, a few months back, in the April 2011 Well-Fed E-PUB, I ran the following Main Course about retainers from Visalia, CA commercial freelancer Tim Lewis (tim@tlcopy.com, http://www.tlcopy.com).
Retainers – essentially a guaranteed monthly income from a commercial writing client – can be wonderful things. Not to mention especially welcome in a tough economy – [...]

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Meet Someone Like This and Your Copywriting Business Will Soar…

June 13, 2011

At first blush, it didn’t seem like such a fortuitous meeting. It was 1994, my stumbling, halting first year as a commercial freelancer. On the side, I was writing columns for a local Atlanta rag. I’d been put in touch with the graphic designer who was laying out the publication I was writing for, to [...]

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Turning Kind Deeds to Writing Income: Helping Funeral Homes Minister to Families (Guest Post)

May 5, 2011

PB Note: Got this really intriguing guest post from Chicago-area commercial freelancer Melanie Jongsma – a great thought-starter to get your creative wheels turning. I invite you to view it not as one about someone doing “memorial folders,” but rather, as the story of someone who looked beyond the typical commercial writing box and found [...]

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Have You Tried the “Reluctant Rock Star Close” to Deal With Waffling Prospects?

April 18, 2011

Was on the phone the other day with a commercial writing coaching client. She has an established commercial freelancing business with a number of solid, longtime clients that call on her regularly. AND, she wanted to land a few new ones, feeling she needed to broaden her base a bit.
Well, seems the prospecting process has [...]

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Carve a Niche & Build Your Own Demand through “Query-Free Freelancing” (Guest Post!)

March 31, 2011

PB NOTE: I’m delighted to have Jennifer Mattern as our first guest blogger in this go-round (AND to have this piece be part of her virtual blog tour). Jennifer, the founder of the critically acclaimed AllFreelanceWriting blog, is a consummate freelance professional and someone with a wealth of knowledge and experience in all aspects of [...]

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