Just be a freelance commercial copywriter

Author: Baoman
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: You can live a happy life like this: If you are tired of the rigid 9-to-5 job, if the complex interpersonal relationships at work exhaust you, if the congested urban traffic and long commutes weigh you down, if you long to free your mind and body, then read this book. If you want to enjoy the joy of creation but worry about becoming a struggling writer, if you want to live a life of family and children but fear being marginalized by society, if your income is high but you are frustrated by not having time to take vacations and enjoy life, if you truly want to have your cake and eat it too, then you must read this book. This book tells you how to earn money with your pen. The author is Peter Baoman from the United States. Earning money with a pen? How easy is that. Where to publish what you write, where to publish it? How to turn words into money? Moreover, not everyone has the talent to write timeless masterpieces like Jiang Lang. In fact, this is what attracts me to you about Just Be a Freelance Commercial Writer. Not only because it has won numerous prestigious awards: selected by the American Book Club, the Quality Paperback Club, and the Writer's Digest Club as a top-quality book, and awarded the Foreword magazine's annual Best Book Award and the Benjamin Franklin Award from the Publishers Marketing Association. Not only because it is widely popular with readers and praised by experts: authoritative magazines such as Booklist, Library Journal, and Foreword have heaped praise on it, and it has received the highest reader ratings on the world's largest book website, Amazon, with a five-star rating. Not only because it has long been on the bestseller list, having been reprinted many times since its publication and being highly favored by readers and the market. Not only because of the author's impressive writing background: his main commercial clients include Coca-Cola, Southern Bell, IBM, MCI, UPS, Mercedes-Benz, and others, all household names. Not only because the book shows you a substantial income and a desirable, happy lifestyle: financially self-sufficient within six months, then "middle-class," then "wealthy," with time to travel abroad, to balance work and family, to re-examine the meaning of life. And the author is telling the truth—he completely lifts the veil on the mysteries of becoming a successful freelance commercial writer, sharing his secrets for turning writing wisdom into earning wisdom with you. I know that if you have some foundation and love writing, you can achieve this; I know that many people—those interested in innovation, those planning to change jobs, those who are stay-at-home mothers, as well as reporters, editors, company employees, college and graduate students, and those temporarily unemployed—can all have or have as a sideline such a job, such an income. This is not just a pure commercial writing manual, but "the art is beyond the poem," helping you solve the problems that may always perplex you, making it difficult for you to enter or excel in this industry, even if your abilities could otherwise make you a master of the trade. And the answers and insights to these problems are something no university, writing master, or design master can teach you. The author tells you in the book how to start, what equipment you need, where to look for leads to find clients, how to deal with intermediaries like advertising agencies and studios, how to find the key decision-makers in companies without being blocked by secretaries, how to handle clients who are a bunch of "mummies," how to make follow-up calls, when to call for maximum efficiency, when it's necessary to send samples and detailed personal materials, how to fully understand client intentions and do better than they expect, what to do when your creative ideas clash sharply with the client's, how to quote, how to calculate fees, and how to appear at the right time when the client needs you. In short, he teaches us how to turn the seemingly chaotic work of freelance writing into a magic wand for financial freedom. The author is speaking from American experience, but all of this applies equally to China. Don't say Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou—these global corporate headquarters and government departments are teeming with opportunities. Even in ordinary cities and regions, as long as there are businesses, commerce, government agencies, schools, hospitals, and all kinds of institutions, as long as there are economic and social activities, you have countless opportunities to succeed as a freelance commercial writer. In today's tight job market, when work is supposed to be for a better life but instead squeezes out all the joy of living, changing careers, changing the way we live, changing our life's state, and changing our mindset that always leaves us regretting the inability to balance things—could there be more benefits? Why not start with reading this book?