Today we’ll be chatting with a very successful freelance writer and online business owner, Ashley Gainer.

Ashley is the founder of Gainer Ink and has been a freelance writer and editor for more than ten years. She’s worked with clients across a variety of industries including career advancement, internet marketing, B2B, ecommerce, entrepreneurship, web design and more. After writing more blog posts than she can count, Ashley now ghostwrites game-changing books for entrepreneurs with big ideas and her agency provides funnel copy for great offers.

In 2015 Ashley opened the Ink Well Guild, a learning platform for new freelance writers. Nearly 1,000 students have benefited from her no-fluff, no-hype approach and countless others are listening in on her podcast, Copy Chatter.

 

Why should YOU tune-in?

Ever want to be able to make money working from home but you don’t think you’re the type to make it? Then you should definitely tune-in because Ashley is a mom who was never super ambitious about making a ton of money online and yet her most profitable month was $20,000! She just wanted to be able to make “enough” money and be able to be home with her kiddos.

 

What we’re talking about:

• Repositioning yourself and your business
• Working from home and having more babies
• Books and sales funnels
• Why books are great tools for marketing
• More and more businesses are transitioning online
• Facebook ads
• Being a mom and an entrepreneur
• Getting started with the online biz
• Finding your niche
• Freelance writing

 

Links mentioned in this episode:

Ashley’s website

Instagram

How to make your writing portfolio

 

Minute-by-minute breakdown:

1:31 – Explaining to friends and family what it is you do for a living

3:09 – Where do you spend your time on Facebook?

4:14 – Tips and tools to contain the amount of time spent on Facebook

4:28 – What takes up the majority of your time right now?

5:59 – Ashley’s home life

8:22 – Does working online allow people to have more children?

9:26 – Why would a small business owner or entrepreneur want to self-publish a book?

15:23 – COVID’s impact on Ashley’s business 

17:17 – Ashley’s income

19:53 – Normal life, being a mom, business and just showing up

22:52 – The beginning stages – how Ashley got started 

28:59 – So what did you write? What was your first paid project and how much did you make?

30:21 – What was the most you've ever made writing blogs or articles and where did you find that client?

32:17 – The biggest contribution to Ashley’s success

33:08 – What's next 

34:15 – Ashley's one piece of advice