I’m a Beginner Copywriter
Medium is the place I chose to document my journey as I walk along the path of a freelance copywriter.
First thing I want to tell you is, I’m not a native English speaker.
If you think about it, this is enough as an excuse to not go for it because many clients are looking for a native English speaker.
Is this suppose to demotivate me? I don’t think so.
In fact, I see this as an advantage.
One lesson I learned about copywriting is you want to write in a way that everyone can understand you. That means you want to use simple words instead of big words that are difficult to understand.
As you can see, this comes naturally if you’re a non-native English speaker.
But of course, I still need to improve my English speaking skills without becoming an English professor.
Anyways, I’ve been practicing copywriting for a while not. You know, reading books, copying proven sales letters in my own handwriting & analyzing them, and writing a copy here and there (This is also why I started writing here on Medium — I want to improve my writing skills).
I know I still have a long way to go, but I want to test my skills now by writing for clients who will take a chance on me.
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I’m not going to improve any longer by reading more copywriting books and not getting any feedback on my skills.
(If you’re reading this and you want a fresh out-of-the-oven copywriting skills, then you might get satisfying results with my beginner’s luck!)
So I started creating gigs on Fiverr to start small — check out my gigs here: www.Fiverr.com/copymichael — and cold emailing potential clients.
My plan right now is simple.
Wake up ➤ Create a gig on Fiverr ➤ Cold email business owners ➤ Skill building (reading, analyzing, hand-copying, writing, etc.)
I’ll do all these until I hit 10k/month. A beginner’s number. Until then, I’m not yet an official copywriter!
For now, I’m a freelance copywriting whore. I’ll take any project as much as I can.
It’s important to niche down, no doubt. But as an 18-year old beginner copywriter, do you really have a choice? The goal now is to learn, not to earn.
So whether it’s writing emails or sales letters… writing for health niche or wealth niche… it doesn’t matter…
Small projects don’t exist. All projects are big for me.
Watch me,
Michael Pearson
