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(From copywriter Mike Humphreys) You can pay for training by spending your time, your money, or both. More than half of the great copywriters I know developed their chops like I did: By reading the classic copywriting/direct response marketing books, studying great copy, and writing copy. I've never belonged to a paid mastermind for copywriting or marketing. I've never hired someone to privately mentor me. Or been someone's copy cub. I didn't pay for my first high-ticket copywriting training program until after I'd already produced over $10M in sales for my clients. At that point, I was charging $5K+ for a salesletter. So I was making good enough money to pay for that specialized training without going into debt. I broke into copywriting in 2006. Took me 2 months to go full-time with it. I've been full-time ever since. Money was tight then and my oldest child was in diapers. So I invested time instead of money in my copywriting career. Early on, I developed the habit of reading great copy or writing it 6 days a week. I've stuck to that routine ever since. And I'll continue to do it until they nail my coffin shut someday. Simple in theory... difficult in execution because it requires daily persistence and commitment to actually doing it. It also requires patience too because success won't arrive instantly or overnight. But it is doable, even if you're dealing with a shoe-string budget. If I can do it, then I believe anyone else can do it too. Especially with all of the amazing free resources out there. Most of which didn't exist when I was breaking into copywriting. Gary Halbert's website. Justin Goff's free email course. All of the major mailers and huge 8-9 figure companies that put out great copy every day. Not only do they send you great emails for free... those emails take you to their well-written VSLs, webinars, and salesletters too. That's off the top of my head. There are lots of other great free resources out that I'm neglecting to mention.

[SOLD OUT] I saw this conversation on Twitter and thought it worth sharing with you >> Among all the Creative Strategist skills tests I've seen recently (30+): Copywriters surprisingly make the worst candidates when they try to fit this role. They often miss or dismiss the importance of visuals and focus too much on overt direct response. – Jason / @JasonJh1319 >> This actually doesn't surprise me too much. Most copywriters have the mentality of "I get paid to write words." This was true pre-AI and many of them haven't changed their ethos to get with the times. Meanwhile the great copywriters have always acted as creative strategists - providing input on crucial design decisions. That's one of the things that made them great. – Stefan Georgi And here's a conversation I took part in on Facebook. >> “It’s over for copywriters, everyone wants a creative strategist now.” Bruh a creative strategist is literally just a f***in meta ads copywriter, calm down. – Sean Ferres >> It is just copywriting. – Nabeel Azeez >> And strategy... and briefs. So long as you can write a creative brief and analyze data, you're gucci. – Heidi Anspauch >> I agree with you. That's copywriting. – Nabeel Azeez What this looks like to me is there's a divide in understanding what copywriting is. And that divide exists between... - Copywriters who started before it was sold as a “business opportunity” by course creators - Copywriters who started after The first group had no courses or YouTube channels to learn from. They had to read books and old newsletters and watch or listen to tape recordings (or hope those newsletters and recordings had been put online.) They had to hand-copy sales letters and advertorials and magalogs. And in the course of doing so, they picked up the “media” skills along the way. - A-pile/B-pile - Space ads - Editorial - Media buying - …And so on The second group got into copywriting from a course that promised they'd make 10k per month working two to four hours a week writing emails in Google docs.

# And How to Move from Service Provider to Business Owner in the “AI Age” *Note from Nabeel: This essay was 100% researched and written by AI. There are no human edits. Do not let that stop you from reading it. The data and analysis are real.* --- ## The End of the Old Deal For over 400 years, the deal for copywriters was simple. You had a rare and valuable skill: the ability to persuade with words. You rented that skill to a business for a fee. The business captured most of the value your work created. You got paid. It was a stable arrangement, but it had a hard ceiling. The person doing the most creative work rarely got to keep the rewards. In the last three years, AI has broken that deal. It has not just changed the market; it has split it in two. The bottom of the market has collapsed. Spending on freelance writing has fallen by nearly 80%.[^1] Thousands of writers who sold words by the page are struggling to find work. At the same time, the top of the market has never been stronger. Strategic, persuasive writers are in record demand. OpenAI–the company that built ChatGPT–is paying up to $393,000 a year for a human content strategist who can "be the human that actually connects with people."[^2] This split is not the end of the story. It is a new beginning. The same forces that broke the old model have created a major opportunity. Copywriters can now stop being service providers and start being owners. With AI leverage, a vast market of non-users, and lower barriers to launching a business, a new path is open: the copywriter as founder. This essay maps that path. It draws on data from the creator economy, eCommerce, affiliate marketing, and the AI services market to show why this moment is unique. It shows the specific levers you can use to build a business. And it gives you a clear playbook for capturing the full value you create, not just a fraction of it. 1. Part 1: Understanding the split in the copywriting industry 2. Part 2: The 3 levers of the new economy 3. Part 3: The 4 business models available to you 4. Part 4: The new skills that make you irreplaceable 5. Part 5: The playbook to go from copywriter to founder

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