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Is freelance copywriting a bad job?

Posted on 29 May 2006 by Lord Brar

Bob Bly, asked on his blog

I have one question for you: would you advise a teenager today to pursue copywriting as a profession? Why or why not?

My answer — Any job in which the returns depend on the amount of effort you put in is bad. Your assets should make you money while you are on a beach in Bahama.

Ability to do good copywriting is an asset. Words sell. And it is very much possible to put your sites on autopilot. Your words are your salespeople.

But being a freelance copywriter? Well, not something I would take up as a profession.

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This is a viral video from Youtube that is getting a lot of attention.

I will let the author set the scene:

It was back in Oct 2005.

My wedding was about a month to go and I decided to make a memorable event for my future wife. But, I and she were working and due to preparation of wedding, I didn’t have enough budgets for expensive proposal. While I was considering for the event, I remembered what she said in the past. “Wow it would be great if I can get a chance to go in the room with full of yellow post it just like Sang Sang Plus” (Sang Sang Plus is one of the famous talk show (TV program) in Korea and they prepare a room with full of yellow post it - questions from fans to famous celebrity)

I wrote all the happy memories that I had with my wife in 5,940 post it. It took me 4 days & 5 nights to write everything and post it in the bathroom. (I tried main living room first, but, due to surface of wallpaper, I had to change the place) Once we back from honeymoon, we took all the post it off and kept it in the box until now.

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