How to become a copywriter?

[nusaibatara]

I get asked this quite often. So here's an honest story of how I became a copywriter. Even the more experienced might learn something from this story.

I've been greece phone number data supporting myself by writing sales letters, advertisements, and who knows what marketing material, along with other spiritual products, since I was 24 years old.

The first book on advertising I read was David Ogilvy’s classic Ogilvy on Advertising . My father gave it to me. That impressive opus inspired me to pursue the field. (It later inspired my own book The Power of Words , but that’s another story.) I didn’t know what I would actually do at first—I just knew I wanted to be involved in advertising. I also admired Ogilvy’s style. Who wouldn’t want to live in a fancy castle in France and be a world-famous genius?

Despite my enthusiasm, no advertising agency would even hire me to make coffee. I had learned from Ogilvy's book that an advertiser must, above all, know how to sell. So I applied and got a sales job. I sold all kinds of mobile phone subscriptions to household appliances.

I even did a one-day door-to-door sales when I saw the news that only a few Finnish homes have fire blankets. I bought a couple of them cheaply at Bauhaus. I thought I could easily sell them at a nice profit to anyone who doesn't have one.