Oh wow, Craig! 25 assignments/month earning $1,400-$1,700 sounds like a recipe for burnout. Good for you for doing it to this point, but this certainly sounds like a situation of you being underpaid! Are you on Upwork or Fiverr? If that’s the case, our recommendation would be to ditch these platforms ASAP! You may find this post helpful on pitching: https://filthyrichwriter.com/5-ways-to-vastly-improve-your-pitches-to-would-be-copywriting-clients/ This post may help, too (even though you have TONS of experience, some of the pointers may give you a new way to approach your work): https://filthyrichwriter.com/how-do-you-land-your-first-copywriting-clients-without-experience-or-samples/

Keep us posted and we hope to see you in the course one day soon!

With any luck, I should be able to sign up toward the end of 2025. I hope your prices stay steady!

Wishing all the best to everyone who is currently enrolled.

Hi Michelle,

I don’t actually have a teaching background myself; it’s something I’ve discovered I enjoy and a skill I’ve developed over the years. That said, though, we actually have a lot of current and former teachers in our student group. I think a teaching background makes them especially good at learning themselves, as well as working with their clients to uncover strategies and messages they might not even know are important. (Among many other things.) 🙂

Thanks for commenting!
Nicki

How did you use your early teaching experience in copywriting? Interested as I am an early childhood teacher but getting older in a physically demanding career.

Hi Ferran,

We’ll have to agree to disagree. I’m familiar with the concept of structural priming, but learning sentence structure isn’t a very big concern when it comes to effective copywriting. Instead, students should be learning to analyze the copy they come across according to principles they learn so that they can more effectively create copy of their own.

Thanks,
Nicki

It works and that’s why some of the greatest copywriters recommend this exercicise.

Take care,

Ferran

Hi David,

No, it’s really not a valid way to learn copywriting. I mean, what would you actually be learning by hand-copying something? You wouldn’t learn how to write a novel by hand-copying War and Peace, right? Just like with anything else you want to learn, you need to learn the principles of copywriting and then you need to practice them. While reading and analyzing copy that’s out in the world is useful and a practice I recommend, hand-copying ads definitely isn’t.

Thanks for commenting,
Nicki

Hi Skip,

Thanks for the insight – and I agree, teach helps make us all better and keeps us sharp! Learning never stops for any of us. 🙂

Thanks for commenting!
Nicki

Hi Nicole,

I agree – when we can have the best of both worlds, why shouldn’t we do it?? And I’m so happy for you that you can combine teaching and copywriting, too! 🙂

Thanks for commenting!
Nicki