Take ACTION and You’ll Succeed With Web Writing
If there’s one thing which will derail your Web writing career, it’s this: knowing what to do, yet failing to take action.
Sell Your Writing Online NOW (SYWON) is full of action plans: you receive a Web writing assignment every week.
In this article Writing Career: One-Year Fast Track to Success | Angela Booth’s Fab Freelance Writing Blog I said:
“Over the past 30 years of writing, I’ve become a huge fan of planning. I plan consistently, and have yearly, monthly and daily writing plans. I never follow any plan precisely as written. I may ditch my plan for the day if I decide that something else needs attention.
However I can see from my own career that a lack of planning leads to a lack of action, and ACTION is what counts.”
Please read the article carefully, and create plans. Here’s the thing about any plan for your writing: every plan you create will work, and it will always have benefits for you far beyond anything you anticipate.
Each and every action you take benefits you — and often you won’t see the results immediately.
Twenty years ago, when my primary income came from copywriting, I often spent an entire day each and every week, writing letters to clients with whom I wanted to work. I got the names from business listings.
I wrote lots of letters. I got lots of clients.
Ultimately, because I just focused on the plan, I got many more clients than I could handle. It was embarrassing to tell prospective clients that I was booked sold for the next six months. Of course, I stopped writing letters, but for years, the job offers kept coming. Some of those clients are still with me today.
The results of your actions can take time to arrive. In my copywriting letter-writing, the best results came three months after I started the campaign. And then they snowballed. I had to turn my phone off so I could write: the phone just wouldn’t stop ringing.
If you’re a SYWON subscriber, you know that you can always check your plans with me and with Julia, so you know you’re heading in the right direction.
Any plan you create and put into action is a GOOD plan, simply because you’re taking action. So create a short and sweet plan today, and take ACTION. If you do, you’ll find it’s impossible to fail with Web writing… and come to that, with anything at all.
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