Freelance and copywriter – how to get started?

If you are in doubt about whether to start a remote work activity, it is better to start with copywriting. There are several reasons:

  • Absolutely no financial investment is required from you;
  • This is a fairly flexible source of income that can be perfectly adjusted to your rhythm of life;
  • There is always a demand for the services of copywriters;
  • You got all the skills for work at school;
  • Copywriting has great potential and is one of the most in-demand freelance services on the market.

There are many ways to start copywriting:

  • Find a direct customer – websites, portals, forums and even newspapers need constant publishing of content;
  • Contact the administration of large groups in social networks – SMM is actively developing, group owners are interested in hiring low-cost specialists, but on an ongoing basis;
  • Register on freelance exchanges – there is extremely high competition, however, a novice freelancer can get access to a stable stream of customers with different payment abilities. The disadvantage of freelancing exchanges: it requires the purchase of a subscriber, license or temporary access in order to be able to respond to customer vacancies, and exchanges are a favorite place for scammers. Recall that the Avtor24 exchange works according to the mechanism of protecting the interests of both customers and freelancers. Registration in our service is absolutely free, which distinguishes the Avtor24 platform from other exchanges;
  • Create text content for sale – there are a lot of exchanges that sell already written content. Prices are set either according to the base price, or each author can declare the cost of the finished text.

There are a lot of ways to get started in copywriting, their choice depends on your goals, skills and amount of free time.

How about rewriting?

Rewriting (rewriting) is the uniqueization of the text provided by the customer. For a beginner in the field of text support, it is better to start with rewriting, because:

  • This is the easiest way to quickly start making money on texts – the sources will provide you, the essence of the task is to replace words with synonyms in such a way that the meaning does not change, but uniqueness rises;
  • Rewriting will help you understand the intricacies of the industry, adjust your work schedule, and get a feel for the specifics of freelancing;
  • You will be able to increase the amount of work performed by increasing the speed of printing, quickly finding quality sources, acquiring speed reading skills, and so on;
  • Due to the processing of a large amount of texts, you will be able to develop your own style, get an idea about the basic principles of SEO, structured text on the pages.

Disadvantages of rewriting:

  • Rewriting is 30-50% cheaper than copywriting;
  • Rewriting is in some cases harder to do than writing text from scratch. For example, if we are talking about articles overloaded with content;
  • Copywriting and rewriting are practically the same, since few customers provide really high-quality sources. Therefore, you will do copywriting work, and get a rate as for rewriting.

How to win your first client?

Start small. The simplest thing is to register on the Avtor24 exchange. It will take a few minutes, but you will get:

  • Your base rating after testing – which is very important for a beginner who has no reviews;
  • Access to a minutely updated feed of current projects, among which you can choose reliable customers;
  • Fraud protection thanks to 100% prepayment through the Author24 system.

Many people make the mistake of starting out as a freelancer and fall off the freelance path before they really get started due to scams, failed first projects, or negative customer reviews.

How to choose your own niche?

  • The rate and efficiency of a copywriter is always higher if he is an expert in a particular field. When choosing a niche, proceed from your preferences, education, professional or life experience. For example, if you have done major repairs at least once in your life, you can safely take on the topic of construction.
  • Women’s topics, medicine, filling online stores, student work and construction are always relevant in copywriting. It will be much easier to find clients if you are related to any of the topics listed;
  • You don’t need to jump into all the topics in a row, but it’s also better to experiment in a few niches at the initial stage;
  • Please note that some topics are seasonal;
  • It is better to refuse highly specialized projects, however, if you are offered favorable conditions, agree.

What else can I do?

Pay attention to these types of freelancing that are associated with copywriting:

  • Student Paper Writing – Do you like short and simple tasks? Try to write laboratory works, control, abstracts. If you are attracted to large but expensive projects, you can write diplomas, term papers or even dissertations;
  • Translation is a profitable freelancing direction if you have an impeccable knowledge of foreign languages;
  • Working with commercial texts – writing text for brochures, slogans, commercial offers, texts for mailing.

The main advantage of copywriting is accessibility, you can always try a new way of earning for you as a main or additional income.

When, after many sleepless nights, the diploma is finally ready, I want to pass it and forget it. But the university will not lag behind the student so easily. After all, the full text of the diploma was read only by the supervisor, and a whole commission will gather to evaluate it. Therefore, in many respects, his assessment depends on how a student defends a diploma.

So what is a successful defense?

  • Competent protection text
  • positive diploma review
  • confident answers to commission questions

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

In the introduction to the course it is necessary to indicate many important points. One of them is methodology. The student is required to indicate what methods he will use in the study of the topic. This is not the easiest task, and often students cannot cope with this task themselves. In this case, you can contact us. Our experts will write you a paper of any complexity, and you can discuss the price with them personally.

Speech structure

Of course, what exactly to say in the defense depends mainly on the topic of the thesis and on what exactly is written in it, but there are general recommendations that are suitable for everyone.

  • First of all, we need to greet the members of the evaluation committee. (“Dear members of the attestation commission! Your attention is presented to the final qualifying work on the topic …”)
  • Introductory part. Here you need to reveal the topic and identify the issues that are raised in the work.
  • Relevance of the topic. At this stage, it is important to prove the relevance of the chosen topic and the degree of its development in other people’s works. Indicate the subject, object, objectives and purpose of the study.
  • Theme disclosure structure. Here you just need to list the paragraphs that are in the work and briefly describe them.
  • Problem statement. To confirm the relevance of the topic, it is necessary to state the problem and indicate the debatable opinions on this matter.
  • Conclusions. At the end of the speech, the commission should hear the conclusions that the student came to in the course of writing the diploma, in which there are ways and methods for solving the stated problems.

On the one hand, it seems that it is much easier to write a graduation speech than the diploma itself. However, high-quality speech is a skillful squeeze out of the work, as well as its competent presentation. And it often happens that a diploma is written with the highest score, and a student gets a worse grade. Therefore, if there is a lack of self-confidence, you can order a speech on our website. And then the probability of failure due to bad speech will disappear. After all, we give a twenty-day guarantee for the work, and if something does not suit you, you can demand that the author finalize the order for free. We make sure that students are satisfied, so if the final version of the work does not meet the stated requirements, you will get your money back.

Formal requirements

When writing a speech for a thesis, you must also take into account that there are purely formal requirements.

  • Time. Do not forget that there are many students, but the commission is one. Therefore, the time for a defensive speech is regulated and ranges from 5 to 7 minutes. At the same time, you should remember about the time that will be spent on commission questions.
  • Intonation. Where, no matter how on the defense of a diploma, is it important to win over listeners? Therefore, it is better not to read the speech monotonously, making accents with intonation.
  • Style. When presenting a speech, it should be remembered that the main goal is understanding on the part of the commission. Therefore, you should not be too smart, but you can’t switch to colloquial speech either. In this matter, you need to observe the golden mean.
  • Pronouns. As in the diploma itself, it is important to remember during the defense that although the author of the diploma is clearly spelled out, there are a lot of true owners of knowledge reflected in the work (the authors of all the sources the student relied on plus the supervisor), so first-person pronouns are not appropriate here.
  • Questions. After the end of the speech, questions from the commission will inevitably follow, and you need to be ready for them. Suggested questions should be written down in the course of writing the thesis, work through all the questions that arose during the pre-defense, and you can also look at the questions at the end of chapters from textbooks on this topic.
  • Pre-protection. In such a matter as defending a diploma, it is better not to be presumptuous and neglect pre-defense. On it, you can practice giving a speech and write down possible questions from the audience. This will allow you to feel more confident in the official defense.

Of course, these are only recommendations, and no one forces you to strictly follow them. However, the rejection of some positions during the defense will create additional questions from the certification committee, which is not always loyal. Therefore, it is best to think through all possible questions and answer them in advance in a defensive speech. Then the teachers will have a minimum of questions, and they will be grateful for the saved time.