Free Replay) Top 10 Places to Find Copywriting Clients (and 3 to Avoid Like the Plague)...

This is a year old, the video contains some good ideas for both copywriters and content writers. Speaking of content writers, here is a free gift for you, please accept it and go away (I know you won't but hope does spring eternal).

It is a Facebook Group, one of several, but this will get you in the rabbit hole and this guy knows what he is doing, check him and his website out, The Content Marketing Lounge on Facebook and his website is colliermarketing dot com, Nathan Collier if you care to google.

This Facebook group and others like it will be far more valuable to YOU, than trying to post your content articles here at the copywriting forum.

Why is it a COPY writing forum? When Alan Says set this place up, it was for people who wanted to make money from the Internet and Marketing on it. The early days saw great success by those old school Direct Response Marketers who wrote copy which could sell stuff. It was quickly recognized by IM crowd as a "must have" skill, and early adapters, guys like Frank Kern and John Reese, used their COPY Writing skills to have great success, maybe even the first million dollar day (in sales) on the Internet, by one person doing IM.

Why this is not a content writing forum...because at the time, Content writing was just writing, a person who could write articles for magazines, or newspapers or journalists converted their writing skills to online skills and it exploded. Then the content mills spring up and all kinds of courses, classes and the Biz-Op schools of writing, which were offline for the last century, never a shortage of people wanting to write for a living...

These guys, like AWAI, wrote great copy making it sound like anyone with the ability to put pen to paper could rapidly become a 6 figure writer...and the race began.

Now, most professional COPY writers and even the published and professional writers have FLED this forum, especially after the change of ownership and the results of the Peter Principle which most corporations exhibit...but.

BUT, there are some of us still here, we want to help you. We want to see you succeed. We have answers for you, help even.

But, the tolerance has lowered for the recent rash of posting useless, even spurious articles about copywriting from people who don't even know what that is...

You have access, still, to people well established in the writing world, some remaining members have had over a dozen books published by mainstream publishers, several have hit the 6 and 7 figure marks with their copy writing skills.

But you have to meet us half way.

You will get several different opinions because our journeys have been different, we came to this via many different paths.

It would be great to see you ask questions and then question our responses rather than see you post the 3 Things Every Copywriter MUST Do...(Eat, Drink and Poop).

We can rebuild this forum, or it can go the way of the dusty trail, so, how about a refocus on COPY writing, AND you content writers can petition Freelancer for a new sub-forum...or we can all just ignore the trolls here, and let it become a ghost town as several forums of yesteryear have become.

I'm NOT going to feed the Trolls, let's starve them out, or NOT, we're all free to do our own thing, eh?

GordonJ

The times they are a changin' (Bob Dylan, 1964)

Just as true today as it was back then.

Discussion boards still have their place, but social media is where the action's at these days.

Sit around wishing things were like they used to be... or adapt.

Each individual's choice.

Alex

And BTW, the Warrior Forum Copywriting sub-forum was never "all that". Michel Fortin's discussion board was the place to be.

I guess what is gowin' on here is the kinda shiftya see when hunnybees swoop their buzzola from pollensmash to pollensmash.

Allied also to how ants kinda kiss antennae with one another as they are huntin' for ANT STUFFS.

Plus, acourse, possibilitya genetic mutation, whereby previously rock solid insect-specific roolz flip over an' reveal a vulnerable noo underbelly, an' for a short time, the ants dig all things hexagonal over beeline-like straight lines, an' the hunnybees drop down outta the unergonomic air to stomp out an' burrow an' generate massesa irritation down evryone's frickin' pants.

Where we fix our involvement in mutable evolvement is not easy to figure an' certainly any hard an' fast rule ain't gonna last.

But for sure sum cosmic force is suckin' the life outta this kinda shebang for the mo — despite alla my attempts to generate facile excitement — an' we all gotta go with that for now.

Thing is, forums have been around since sumone thought, "hey, that would be a cool thing to do in the namea serious discussion, but cos I got a warped sensea humor I am gonna figure a word for it sounds moderately porno," an' most internet incarnationsa the forum idea got a formal edge to 'em.

Prolly social media is more non-forumly forumular right now, glitzin' out on easea networkin' cos alla the beesy antsy mutantpeeps are there, conjoinin' antennae on fluxa 2016, but mood an' form gonna switch an' twist, an' meetin' places for all discourse gonna flow where they go.

Way I see it, forums are essentially TOGA.

Wrinklesome wraps, uniform in their ubiquitousness, flap in winda change for sum communal purpose.

Social media is prolly more casual thong — individualistically delicious expressiona the gossamer veneer between inner life an' hellbent voyeur, via the mediuma mainly drivel.

As a princess, I would always wanna conduct myself with the necessary f*ckin' decorum, an' I figured gravitasa forums suited my hubristic logistics.

But 2017 may be another open vestibule for Moi.

Cut curt to 140 characters, I could juice out on poison, succinctominxo, tellya.

But I digress.

Guess I figured a while back with WF how I had meandered myself before a horizon grayed out with once-legendaryness, but it is in my nature to tryta breathe regalia-rich life back into even the most bulbously inert toads.

Gonna mebbe spend enda 2016 pontificatin' to sum purpose 'bout where I wanna fire off, jus' in case I thinka sumthin' awesome.

I got candy, I got alcohol, I got pasta — an' I am restrainin' my Cumberbatch-hungry Dr Strange horses for at leasta nother week in the namea discipline an' diligence.


Get lost.

Gordon,

You told content writers to "go away".

And now you're telling me what to post and what not to post.

As Dana Carvey (imitating Johnny Carson) would say, "That's weird stuff!"

Alex