”From the beginning, I saw myself as having a copywriting business instead of being a freelance copywriter.”

Alex Thompson caught our attention with his LinkedIn post, ”My current freelancer ‘wage bill’ is £4,450 a month. And I love it.” He generously shares his insights for growing a business and working with other freelancers.

Do you remember when you found out what a copywriter was? My fiancée Kelsey told us about it. I was having an existential crisis of what I’d do with my life. I was always smug through high school and uni whenever anyone else had a mad panic because I had it all planned out to be an English high school teacher; I was going to make deputy head and head by a certain age. I started teaching in Beijing – nine lessons a week with no marking and no accountability. It was the easiest job, and I hated it. I thought, “Shit, what the hell am I going to do?” I’d moved to Melbourne by this point and was good at writing but I didn’t know how on earth I…

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