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Keep on Truckin'

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2007-05-20 10:22:21     
Article by Cyndi White

. . . as Eddie Kendricks used to sing . . . . . .

I realize I'm showing my age, but this is the perfect vision to get us off the dime with our writing skills. (baby!) (Motown, for you youngsters).

I'm in the Master's Program with AWAI and recently heard quite a few of us don't ever finish our courses!!!! (which we paid for with money we could most certainly use otherwise!) Good grief!

I was astonished!! My first thought was that folks must have signed up after they had a few beers. My second thought was that folks are a lot like me, who is 60, unpublished, know I can write, am too darn busy, and was getting both overwhelmed and discouraged by all the success stories and miracle copywriters sent to encourage our fledgling skills.

Are you in this category? Think you're too busy, too thin, too fat, too old, too young, too tired, too uneducated, too educated, too ordinary, too scared, too depressed, too challenged, too . . . . . . . . whatever, to make that dream you started a reality?

So I want to send you hope so you will embrace the goals you already set for yourself, remembering that AWAI gives us all the time we want to finish a course.

I just attended the 3 CHIX seminar in Wilmington and was overwhelmed with their humility and determination to help new copywriters just plain get started making money. Without all the pitfalls they went through. http://www.3chix.com/

These CHIX are accomplished whiz kids, if you know what I mean. They don't need to teach us their secrets of what they've learned coming up through the confusion of "what to do next." And they could have an attitude.

Boy, did I need their wisdom. I was needing to get myself a client before I finish the Master's course, and I wasn't at all sure the right way to start, short of buying into other "job-getters" out there, which I wasn't willing to do because I didn't want to spend any more money-before I made any.

Besides, I had nothing in my portfolio except my AWAI assignments. But one of the CHIX wrote 10 Success Tips for Freelance Copywriters (free from her web-site) http://www.copybydoyle.com/ and Donna's Tip #5 solved that problem for me! (Donna was AWAI's copywriter of the year last year, and was featured in the Monthly Copywriting Genius!)

I had had an inkling I was ready to set up a web-site and send out a portfolio to companies I wanted to work for, but didn't have much of a clue how to begin. The seminar gave me so many web-sites to set it all up and actually make money with affiliates I may actually have more than I need to start!

Another one of the CHIX gave us her stunning portfolio. So we could take it home and copy the idea in our own presentation to clients! http://www.vbrosendahl.com/ Victoria writes novels, and gave us the scoop on how to publish and promote successfully without using the big publishing houses. And she told us in no uncertain terms how important it is to have a contract up front. And how to do them!

Beth is the 3rd of the CHIX: Filbert's Publishing's Queen Bee. She writes, "May our voices always remain true to our dreams, and may we leave this world a better place because we had the courage to broadcast our convictions." She taught us how to write power queries to potential clients to build our business, and how to keep our chin and convictions up as we enter what often is a sometimes-lonely career. http://bethannerickson.com/ Beth's wriiten books, too, on marketing, publishing, and writing, as well as fiction.

The CHIX will answer all your questions, too. And GIVE you CD's of the seminar so you can just listen, listen, listen and not have to take notes!

Take their next seminar to help you get back or stay on the road you started.

PLEASE be a dream finisher. Cyndi White

I've been a writer all my life and have recently decided to become a copywriter. I've taken AWAI's beginning six-figure course for copywriting and am in the middle of their Master's Program. I have a degree in sociology and have done extensive graduate work in social work, psychology, English, and education.

I've worked for the Federal Government for almost 20 years; prior to this I worked in non-profits.

I'm also a born-again Christian and would be happy to send you my testimony, if you request it.

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