How to be a Successful Freelancer: 7 Tips of the Trade
Wake up. Drink morning beverage of choice. Get dressed. Brush your teeth. Rush out to your car. Be almost late. Crank, crank, crank out your work. (Maybe pause for lunch.) Keep on cranking. Answer one more email (or two or three) that pushes you past your 5 p.m. clock...
Sell to the bleeding necks…
Last night I noticed that my lower back was feeling a little bit off. As I slept, I kept waking up in discomfort…😴 But that was nothing compared to what happened when I tried to get out of bed this morning. A wave of pain surged through my body that took my breath...
The Social Dilemma
My wife Laura and I finally watched The Social Dilemma. If you’re not familiar, it’s a documentary on Netflix… And it makes an argument for how social media has become perverted… How it’s used for nefarious purposes by big companies to trade our “attention” for...
13 Observations After Reviewing 138 Copy Submissions in 48 Hours
Good Morning 🙂 A few months ago, I created 60 jobs out of thin air. If you haven’t heard the story, here’s the short version:👇 I simply posted on FB asking for offer owners in my network to put up $15,000 each…💲 I said I would then turn around and hire 10 copywriters...
Rich People Can Be Worker Bees Too…
A long time ago, my best friend's father said something that stuck with me: “The world needs worker bees too.” His point was that some people are destined for more menial types of jobs, and that things would fall apart if that wasn't the case… And I...
How I made $1MM off a Small List of Supplement Customers in 2017
The year I did $23MM with my health supplement company for the first time…🚀 A little over $1MM of that revenue came from my email list.📧 So that’s 1/23rd… Which doesn’t sound that impressive…🙄 But here’s the thing. 👇 That $1MM was virtually all profit. And...
On Collaboration + an Invitation to Hangout With Me
Back in early 2015, my mentor Yi came out to San Diego for an extended visit. He stayed at my house with me…🏠 And we decided to build out an in-house team of copywriters for his company, Lion’s Publishing. 🤝 The thought process was that, while I had been pumping out...
Should You Become Friends With Your Clients?
I got an interesting email one morning from someone, who we’ll call “SJ.” 📩 SJ wrote me sharing that he was fired from a copywriting gig with a client-turned-friend. Ostensibly, he was fired because he was 30 minutes late to a Zoom call…⌛ But really, it goes...
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