There Has Never Been a Better Time to Trade in Your Old Writer for A High Performance Internet Copywriter

But first, I have a confession to make.

I have no formal education in writing. In fact my formal study has been in Accounting & Programming.

There I’ve said it.

It puts me in the same boat as Dan Kennedy & Ted Nicholas – two of the very best master copywriters in the world.

I however, have grown up with the internet.

I first got the internet hooked-up at home in 1996. I was 11 years of age.

Bear in mind in the 90′s it was extremely unusual for a teenager to spend any recreational time online. Oh how times have changed.

I went against this norm as I always had a gut-feeling the Internet would play a huge role in my future.

After graduating High School in 2001 I left home and embarked on university life. Against all advice I took a Bachelor of Electronic Commerce at the University of Queensland. You see this was a matter of months after the brutal dot-com crash.

So Much Money Had Been Lost on the Markets.  Did the Internet have any legs?

Even I was questioning it. IT staff were being laid-off left right and centre. The media had gone as far as declaring the internet was over!  Especially where Business was concerned.

All the talk out there got to me. I must admit I turned my back on the industry somewhat and during my degree I changed direction. I opted to major in accounting.  Definitely not my passion.

Apparently it was my best chance of employment. And who wants a degree that will have them flipping burgers in Maccas right?

Everyone was right, it was easy to get an accounting job.

After five long years of being a bean-counter, I got out. Valuable business lessons learnt  however the professionial rat race was just not for me.

While working as an accountant, instead of doing my CA (Charterted Accountancy Studies) as my employer would have liked – I decided to study copywriting. My hat goes off to anyone who can study to become chartered and work as an accountant at the same time!

My study of copywriting as an after work hobby rapidly turned into an addiction. Mixed in with the internet where you can measure your results in real-time and I knew I had found my calling.

After applying what I had learnt I was making enough passive money online  to quit my job in late 2010.  Since then I have enjoyed the fruits of doing business online through my own successful ventures as well as offering services and consulting to my clients.

If you’d like to take your website, online advertising & social media to the next level, I’d love you hear from you.  Just contact me via the form on the right.