5 Proven Ways To Start A Copywriting Career With No Portfolio (And No Experience)

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Dan Lok

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

When you are starting out as a copywriter getting gigs is hard. Your prospects want to see samples of your work, but you don’t have any yet. So, you need clients to get experience but you need experience to get clients. Break from the vicious cycle and use the 5 proven ways to start a copywriting career with no portfolio and no experience.

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0:00.0	Five ways to start copywriting and make a portfolio with zero experience.
0:20.0	When you are just getting started,
0:22.6	when you are a beginner copywriter,
0:24.6	you're going out there to the marketplace,
0:26.6	and you're trying to get gigs, you're trying to get clients.
0:29.6	One of the most common questions you will get is,
0:32.6	do you have samples of your work that you can share with me?
0:36.6	Do you have a portfolio?
0:39.3	Now, if you're brand new, you may be saying that,
0:41.5	well, I don't have a portfolio,
0:43.7	I'm brand new and I'm just getting started.
0:46.8	And what you hear from your prospects are,
0:49.3	well, then we can't really trust you,
0:51.9	we can't really hire you.
0:53.0	Well, how the hell am I going to build a portfolio
0:55.2	when I'm brand new?
0:56.7	So I cannot get any gigs
0:58.6	because I don't have a portfolio,
1:00.8	but I cannot build a portfolio
1:01.9	because I'm not getting any gigs.
1:03.6	I understand your frustrations.
1:05.9	The question is,
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