Mel Barfield

Building a Freelance Business You Love

Becoming a copywriter Back in the heady days of *checks calendar* early 2022, becoming a copywriter seemed such a good idea. That wasn’t a joke date check btw; the pandemic really messed with my mental timekeeping so I had to look on LinkedIn. I left my old job on the last day of 2021. Now people pay me good money to put the right words in the right order. And more: copywriting is about understanding behavioural psychology (at last, a use for my degree) and how to use words to tap into human emotion. I did a ‘Confident Copywriting’ course through work in October 2020 and fell head-over-heels for it. You don’t need any formal qualifications to call yourself a copywriter. But once I had a taste of that sweet,…

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