Using Freelance Websites in 2017 I got an email a while back that I meant to address. In it, a reader asked me whether I still saw freelance sites as valuable. I wrote way back about how you should use freelance websites as a means to get on the freelance ladder and then find success….
How To Get More Value Out Of Everything Do you want to extract more value from everything you buy? What about gaining more value for every hour of work you do? The simplest and most efficient way to achieve the two above aims is to use the knowledge you’ve already gained and work you’ve already…
There’s Always An Angle In this article, I’m going to write about: Why Black Hat Marketing is Stupid… Again How Automation fits Into Business The Thing That You Should Concentrate On… Because It CAN’T Be Automated Why Copywriting Is Awesome Where Black Hat Marketers Go Wrong Automation is a massive thing. It’s only going to…
The Rules Of Writing Remember back to the days where you were in English class and you thought grammar was boring. Well, there’s a point in your schooling where “these are the rules” becomes “there are no rules.” If you’re in some creative writing class, you might be being told by a professor “there are…
Sales Doesn’t Come Naturally Copywriting as a skill isn’t a natural one. Behind the bluster of “write how you talk” there’s a fact: nobody talks like a sales letter is written. Well, I say that, but in reality there are a few people that do talk like that. They’re the stereotypical car salesman with the…
I’ve spent an ungodly amount of time reading about online business. Here’s a funny little coincidence that I must have seen a million times across pretty much every industry. Somebody in their infinite wisdom says, “Should I Start An X Business?” (Pro-tip: Don’t ask this retarded question ever. We’ll come back to this in a…
The Quality of Your Words If you’re thinking of being a writer, I’ve got good news for you: Now is the best time in history to do it. You can write quickly, cheaply and make massive profits. I recommend sitting for several hours a day and pumping out as many words as you can…
Coherence 2016 is over… and we’re well on our way to getting through 2017. In my opinion, there’s a key concept which will serve you well in any year: coherence. I make a point of not discussing politics, because it attracts weirdoes and it’s not a good use of anyone’s time. That said the current…
On Careers And Business This is a quick article having seen a guy on Reddit talking about his agency copywriting work, how much raise should he ask for and whether or not he could ask for a 10% raise from his junior copywriting position. This makes me want to clarify some thoughts on the agency/traditional…
All Romance E-Books and Why You Should Be Act Like A Publisher Way back in the archives, I talked about topics like copyright, the publishing industry and thinking about your words as assets in the future. For a good few years, I wrote and sold short stories as a hobby. It was much later that…