One of the essential pitfalls of copywriting is a risk. For example there’s the risk not to receive payment for your work. Just like in real life, the Internet is full of customers wishing to obtain a copy for free or for pennies. That’s why it’s very essential for a copywriter to understand whom he deals with. So I’d like to give some recommendations on this matter.
If the customer offers a job on the exchange you should immediately see how long he’s engaged in this activity and what his reputation is. Typically, accounts have a short period of existence and negative feedback or a complete lack of any feedback at all. However, the lack of reviews or a small period of registration can’t be a true evidence in fact. You should analyze a particular situation.
In any case, if you suspect something it’s worth checking all the contact details such as nicknames, email, ICQ and other contact information with the help of search engines. Sometimes you can find something interesting. Working with such a customer you can ask for a written confirmation for any transactions and so on.
Prepayment is the best option, but a beginner usually has nothing to show as an evidence of his professionalism. The true argument of professionalism can be many things. For example I can point out to the existence of a portfolio and an account on the exchange with the feedback of course. It goes without saying that you should have your contact details. But on the other hand the personal information given by copywriters can make them vulnerable because having this data the customer may seriously damage their reputation.
There’s another point which should be also taken into consideration. Very often, when searching for a new copywriter or rewriter customers use so-called test texts. It goes without saying that test texts are free. Perhaps you’ve been also given such texts many times. But if you have only seen this one time then it means that your customer is a good chap indeed and he’s not going to deceive you. But the matter is that some customers give different candidates different test texts accordingly. In such a way they can have their orders executed for free.
The excellent indicator pointing out to perfect customers is the presence of comments and suggestions left by colleagues and competitors. If you see a lot of negative feedback from copywriters with extensive experience and good reputation then you shouldn’t contact this customer. There’s no need to explain it more because everything is clear. I think that very soon you’ll acquire a sort of intuition. Moreover you professionalism will also grow. So these problems won’t be so scaring as now. Work hard and you’ll succeed in copywriting.
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If you are good at article writing, it can change into your regular job. Luckily the online technologies offer many opportunities to earn. Use Google and other search engines to search for “article submission“. You will discover many sites accepting and even paying for article submission.
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