Sean Platt
Content mills. SEO articles. Bidding sites. Lowball job ads that ask for “free samples.”
Do you think it’s the worst time to be a freelance writer?
Sean Platt doesn’t. I recently had the Ghostwriter Dad blogger on as a guest on one of the Den Meetings I hold for Freelance Writers Den members each week, and he shared his philosophy — that now is the best time ever to be a freelance writer.
His message was so inspiring, I really couldn’t get our talk out of my head.
I decided I just had to share it with everyone on this blog. I really want you to hear this. It’s going to change your outlook.
Why does Sean feel the skies have never been bluer for freelance writers? Take a listen to a short excerpt from our talk and find out.
Sean discusses how he went from foreclosure, financial stress, and writing the cheap key-word articles to being a six-figure copywriter — and how you can, too.
This all makes so much sense. And I’m proud to say that since I left my ‘salaried’ day job five months ago, I’m on track to approach the six figure mark for the year. I think that your comments about expectations (you EXPECT your earnings to increase each year) are so true. I would just add that writing down those expectations and goals – somewhere that you can refer to every so often – just concretizes everything and makes it more likely to materialize.
That is AWESOME Ruth…going over to update your Den membership status to “expert”!
I do find expectations are huge. So many writers I’ve mentored were making $20,000 a year…and they sort of felt like that’s what freelance writers make. Then they did 1-on-1 mentoring or the Blast-Off Class..and doubled it, and then doubled it again…and so on.
My point of view is as a freelancer, MY EARNING POTENTIAL IS UNLIMITED. That’s the real thrill of being a freelancer! But if you have the starving-artist mentality, it seems most tend to earn much less.
The trick is knowing what gigs are the ones to stay clear of. Once a writer can see the warning signs, making the money becomes easier.
Hi Bill —
Your post linked above is interesting. Don’t know if you’ve ever seen my posts on how to scan the job ads to avoid scams. But I have a new feature coming to Freelance Writers Den that may interest you — a job-ad list weekly that screens out all the crap for you. Really excited to be adding that — think it’ll be a major timesaver.