There aren’t that many real grown-ups.
There are people building rockets, editing DNA sequences with Raspberry Pi enabled iPads, commercialising supersonic flight, building holographic brain-machine interfaces and decentralizing large parts of civilization.
But that’s a very small slice of business.
Mostly, the business world isn’t run by geniuses.
Mostly, it isn’t even run by adults…
… mostly, it’s a chaotic cohort of well-intentioned but ill-informed idiots, sociopathic sycophants, CERTIFIED LOONS, risky-frisky adrenaline junkies, bums, winos and crack addicts with exceptional work ethics.
Even Steve Jobs, who it is generally but sometimes reluctantly agreed was a genius, admitted this. “Everything around you that you call ‘life’” he said, “was made up by people who were no smarter than you. Once you learn that, you will never be the same again.”
What does this have to do with you and freelance copywriting?
Well, those people taking the plunge and running businesses who are no smarter than you can’t and won’t survive long without decent copywriting and advertising.
And mostly, their stuff needs some work.
Good copy is the SPLENDID SOUL of any successful business.
You only have to read a couple of the right books and practise just enough for your interest in persuasion to develop into an ability.
And that ability, once packaged into an offer that solves an immediate and painful problem with little or no risk, will have you up and running as a freelance copywriter.
Dive in, ignore fear and learn your lessons as you go.
P.S.P. French