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Welcome to Writing for Money

Helping you write for a living🖊️📈 Journal of a financial copywriter. Everything you need to know about copywriting and how to make money writing.

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Welcome to Writing for Money.

My name is Caleb, and I’ve been a copywriter for about six years now. About two years ago I moved into the financial space (a great niche for copywriters if you’re considering it).

I write for banks, fintechs and anything in between, and have been incredibly lucky with some of the opportunities I’ve had.

That’s where I took this cool picture — from the Citibank building in Canary Wharf 📸

I work full-time, but also have a small writing business.

Feel free to stalk me on LinkedIn and see everything I’ve done.

My first steps into freelancing were with Fiverr, which I still recommend all budding freelancers to at least start with.

You can see how much I like Fiverr here 👇

But I’ve since moved on from Fiverr.

Now I spend my time writing about money, for money.

Becoming a copywriter

Once I’d built up some small cred with a few years in the workplace, I had a decent portfolio.

This was when I picked the finance niche and began to obtain clients.

I started this newsletter because I wanted to show exactly how you can start writing for money, and the steps I took to achieve it.

My framework is for any copywriting niche, not just finance.

You can write about:

• Fitness

• Food

• Sport

• Beauty

• Technology

Literally, anything you want, as long as there’s a demand for it. The list is endless.

There are so many companies out there looking for high-quality writers to help them boost their websites and start putting great content out there.

And despite the AI hysteria, the demand for writers is higher than ever.

There has never been a better time to become a copywriter than now.

You might want to check out this post if you don’t believe me.

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And this isn’t a copywriting newsletter where I’ll just be spamming you with a paid course.

I want to provide actual value to copywriters, and to anyone else who wants to read it.

If I’m not doing this, then feel free to tell me.

You can subscribe completely for free.

I post a few times a week usually.

Things to expect

What to expect on Writing for Money.

How to start writing for money

This is the main goal — to explain clearly how writing for money works.

For a long time, I didn’t understand what people were actually paying for, or how to give any value.

I hope that my newsletter teaches you more about what you need to do.

Writing guides

Everyone can always improve on their writing, no matter who they are.

I post about the ways I’ve found to make myself a better writer.

Some of my favourite tips I summarised in this post:

I often write other random thoughts on the writing process, such as this one below:

How to handle the AI revolution

AI is something that cannot be ignored by writers these days, and it’s a wonderful thing.

I often write about AI and AI tools.

I’ve been creating my own GPT tool called Article Muse.

You’re likely to see some posts about me tweaking and updating it.

Check the first post here:

Actionable guides

I like to create posts that I would have needed five years ago.

I do lots of posts like this, cutting the fat, and creating small guides packed with value:

SEO

SEO is a constantly moving industry.

I like to write about what I personally know as an SEO copywriter.

For example, I ran into this dilemma last year:

My own journey

I’m learning new things every day, and the more years I put into copywriting, the more pockets of it I discover.

There are likely to be random posts about things I’ve done and found, which I hope you’ll enjoy.

Speak soon.

Caleb