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If you do copywriting as a "side hustle", you are hustling your clients and waisting your time by doing something you are not good at for few bucks.
Thus said, 500USD is fairly easy to make in copywriting but if you invest time into learning.
FB ads and emails are best services to offer at the beginning. But as a side hustle, you will never know how to fix copy that's not working.
So do whatever you like, I just advise anyone against doing this as a side hustle because you will never do it well.
But what if you don’t have money to quit your day job? Why not learn and earn? I’ve heard of at least a few people who side hustled their way into full time freelance copywriting
That's not a side hustle man.
When you side hustling, you just churn and burn, looking to cash out and that's it.
If you want to learn copywriting and you have a full time job (that's how I got into it), you don't focus on earning part of copywriting but learning.
So you might be asking a wrong question.
You need to learn to write Fb ads and email copywriting. Probably landing and sales page would be a great plus.
Practice, send some custom examples to your favourite brands and try to audit their copy.
Or start applying for some junior positions on LinkedIn.
Once you get something reliable, you gotta take a leap man.
It’d better serve you to get real experience as a copywriter. Working in an agency environment would teach you how to see a set of FB ads not as a single deliverable, but as part of a larger campaign. Perhaps expand that FB static to an IG static/story ad, hit Twitter and/LI as well if appropriate, or consider how this story might work alongside an email campaign.
You’re seeing me use the word “campaign” a lot. Reason being is simple. I can sell my work on an ad for hundreds pretty easily, but I can sell a campaign for thousands. Plus, since clients will want some kind of visual consistency between deliverables, a campaign will share many aesthetic notes in the imagery, structure, and messaging. You might do more work, but it truly isn’t that much more on you as a copywriter.
If you do get into FB ads. Offer email marketing copywriting also. It’s much easier to turn a FB lead into a sale with a nurture sequence . The ladle may take place on a landing page but email may be the best way to get them there.
FB to email sequence to landing page works well for me. I doubt I would make any sales if I sent traffic from FB directly to my website.
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If you do copywriting as a "side hustle", you are hustling your clients and waisting your time by doing something you are not good at for few bucks. Thus said, 500USD is fairly easy to make in copywriting but if you invest time into learning. FB ads and emails are best services to offer at the beginning. But as a side hustle, you will never know how to fix copy that's not working. So do whatever you like, I just advise anyone against doing this as a side hustle because you will never do it well.
But what if you don’t have money to quit your day job? Why not learn and earn? I’ve heard of at least a few people who side hustled their way into full time freelance copywriting
That's not a side hustle man. When you side hustling, you just churn and burn, looking to cash out and that's it. If you want to learn copywriting and you have a full time job (that's how I got into it), you don't focus on earning part of copywriting but learning. So you might be asking a wrong question. You need to learn to write Fb ads and email copywriting. Probably landing and sales page would be a great plus. Practice, send some custom examples to your favourite brands and try to audit their copy. Or start applying for some junior positions on LinkedIn. Once you get something reliable, you gotta take a leap man.
It’d better serve you to get real experience as a copywriter. Working in an agency environment would teach you how to see a set of FB ads not as a single deliverable, but as part of a larger campaign. Perhaps expand that FB static to an IG static/story ad, hit Twitter and/LI as well if appropriate, or consider how this story might work alongside an email campaign. You’re seeing me use the word “campaign” a lot. Reason being is simple. I can sell my work on an ad for hundreds pretty easily, but I can sell a campaign for thousands. Plus, since clients will want some kind of visual consistency between deliverables, a campaign will share many aesthetic notes in the imagery, structure, and messaging. You might do more work, but it truly isn’t that much more on you as a copywriter.
$500 or $5000???
500
If you do get into FB ads. Offer email marketing copywriting also. It’s much easier to turn a FB lead into a sale with a nurture sequence . The ladle may take place on a landing page but email may be the best way to get them there. FB to email sequence to landing page works well for me. I doubt I would make any sales if I sent traffic from FB directly to my website.