05-18-2016, 09:18 PM
Stage 2 Round 2 Day 18
This has been a very reflectionary / rebuilding type of month for me. A few major setbacks for email marketing with Aweber have caused me to restructure my traffic business entirely, which means a tiny bit less profit for now, but hopefully a stronger foundation going forward.
I have also signed up for some high level coaching so I can enhance my copywriting skills. The program lasts about 6 months, and I’m pretty satisfied that this was the right choice for me right now. I sort of wanted the coaching program to align more with running BASE for the second round, but it didn’t work out like that, so I’ll have to settle for the slightly off timing for now.
One odd consideration came up that I have been seriously thinking about…
A friend mentioned that I might work for an ad agency as a copywriting newby / apprentice in my area. I might only get like $12 – 16 an hour (I haven’t had a day job since 2010) but it would be ONE way I could learn and earn my way into the copywriting world, if only through the scope of a small local advertising agency.
If I were to consider this, I would definitely be setting aside the businessman ego bull crap so I can allow others who know the game to show me the ropes. Even if that job ends up as a dead end gig, it wouldn’t matter since I have the copywriting coaching on the side and I would be a freelancer doing my own thing aside from the job anyway.
I haven’t researched that much, but it’s an option. I’m not willing to take the “holier-than-thou” stance that a lot of my business friends take toward working a normal 9 – 5. I won’t make it a permanent thing, obviously but if it helps me learn and grow, why not?
But that’s tentative, so if that develops into an opportunity – great. If not, that’s fine too. There’s always a way to push forward and I just have to find my unique way of doing that.
But this month has been quite a challenge overall though. I’m hoping to regain momentum for the traffic biz within the next month or so. Then once the copywriting stuff is sorted out, I can concentrate more on that and build that up.
What’s funny is that even though I don’t really need it right now, I have 2 potential candidates for interns / workers who could potentially help me. But that would have to come later, if not much later, since I’m trying to rework things right now.
So I guess this month has been about being resilient. A lot of players in the traffic biz have had to pull the plug simply because they couldn’t figure things out and / or they just didn’t have the funds to keep things going long term. But that’s fine. There’s a ton of others things out there, and true business minded people will always find a way to make something work for them.
Admittedly I am a bit bored with the traffic biz, but the money is good for the effort needed to keep things running, so I can see keeping this up for at least the next year or so. But who knows, copywriting might end up being more of a beast than I imagined and I may need to solely focus on that. But we will see. Still a lot of variables to consider going forward.
This has been a very reflectionary / rebuilding type of month for me. A few major setbacks for email marketing with Aweber have caused me to restructure my traffic business entirely, which means a tiny bit less profit for now, but hopefully a stronger foundation going forward.
I have also signed up for some high level coaching so I can enhance my copywriting skills. The program lasts about 6 months, and I’m pretty satisfied that this was the right choice for me right now. I sort of wanted the coaching program to align more with running BASE for the second round, but it didn’t work out like that, so I’ll have to settle for the slightly off timing for now.
One odd consideration came up that I have been seriously thinking about…
A friend mentioned that I might work for an ad agency as a copywriting newby / apprentice in my area. I might only get like $12 – 16 an hour (I haven’t had a day job since 2010) but it would be ONE way I could learn and earn my way into the copywriting world, if only through the scope of a small local advertising agency.
If I were to consider this, I would definitely be setting aside the businessman ego bull crap so I can allow others who know the game to show me the ropes. Even if that job ends up as a dead end gig, it wouldn’t matter since I have the copywriting coaching on the side and I would be a freelancer doing my own thing aside from the job anyway.
I haven’t researched that much, but it’s an option. I’m not willing to take the “holier-than-thou” stance that a lot of my business friends take toward working a normal 9 – 5. I won’t make it a permanent thing, obviously but if it helps me learn and grow, why not?
But that’s tentative, so if that develops into an opportunity – great. If not, that’s fine too. There’s always a way to push forward and I just have to find my unique way of doing that.
But this month has been quite a challenge overall though. I’m hoping to regain momentum for the traffic biz within the next month or so. Then once the copywriting stuff is sorted out, I can concentrate more on that and build that up.
What’s funny is that even though I don’t really need it right now, I have 2 potential candidates for interns / workers who could potentially help me. But that would have to come later, if not much later, since I’m trying to rework things right now.
So I guess this month has been about being resilient. A lot of players in the traffic biz have had to pull the plug simply because they couldn’t figure things out and / or they just didn’t have the funds to keep things going long term. But that’s fine. There’s a ton of others things out there, and true business minded people will always find a way to make something work for them.
Admittedly I am a bit bored with the traffic biz, but the money is good for the effort needed to keep things running, so I can see keeping this up for at least the next year or so. But who knows, copywriting might end up being more of a beast than I imagined and I may need to solely focus on that. But we will see. Still a lot of variables to consider going forward.
