Copywriter and cold emailing specialist, Jorden Roper, joins Kira and Rob in The Copywriter Club Podcast studio for the 39th episode. Jorden is a three time college dropout who lost her job (the same day her husband lost his job at the same company) and managed to find several freelance clients within a month. She shares how she did it, and how she used cold emailing to find clients plus:

•  How you can do cold emailing that lands clients on day one

•  The cold emailing formula she used to grow her business

•  How she used Pinterest to brainstorm her brand

•  How to be fearless as you “put yourself out there”

•  How she uses Youtube to attract a different audience to her blog

•  How much work she put into creating and launching her course

•  The biggest mistake she sees new writers making today

This one is packed with useful information and ideas any writer, beginner or expert, can use to grow and improve their business. Click the play button below, or scroll down for a full transcript.

The people and stuff we mentioned on the show:

Sponsor: AirStory

Craig’s List

Problogger Job Board

Limeleads

Pinterest

Jorden’s video about haters on Youtube

Writing Revolt Blog

Cold Emailing Course

Mariah Coz’s Launch Your Signature Course

Maggie Patterson

Jorden’s FB Community

Jorden on Twitter

Kira’s website

Rob’s website

The Copywriter Club Facebook Group

Intro: Content (for now)

Outro: Gravity

Full Transcript:

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Rob: What if you could hang out with seriously talented copywriters, and other experts, ask them about their successes and failures, their work processes and their habits, then steal an idea or two to inspire your own work. That’s what Kira and I do every week at the Copywriter Club Podcast.

Kira: You’re invited to join the club for episode 39 as we chat with copywriter Jorden Roper about getting fired from bad jobs, and finding copywriting to pay the bills, using YouTube for brand building and outreach, what she has done differently from other copywriters to get an edge, and how copywriters can find great clients with cold emailing.

Rob: Hey, Kira. Hey, Jorden.

Jorden: Hey, guys.

Kira: Hello. Welcome, Jorden.

Jorden: Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.

Rob: Yeah. It’s about time. We’ve been trying to get you on the podcast for a little while. It’s time you got here.

Jorden: Yes, I’m so excited to be here. Thank you so much.

Rob: Jorden, I think maybe we should start with your story. I know you’ve shared this a lot with your list, but a lot of our listeners probably haven’t heard it. You went through a time in your life when you were going through different jobs and landed where you are. Tell us about that.

Jorden: Well, before I started my freelance writing business, pretty much right before, I had been working at this full-time job at a marketing agency. I was doing some writing there. It was very stressful. It was a super toxic work environment. I know a lot of people who are probably trying to break into freelance writing can relate to that, like just going to work every day, sitting in your car in the morning, and just wanting to scream or cry or whatever before you walk up to the office.

That’s kind of the situation that I was in. I ended up getting fired from that job. Just a few months before that actually, my husband started working at the same job. When his contract ended, they decided to just let me go, too.

Kira: What?

Jorden: Yeah, we’re both out of work on the same day.

Kira: Oh, no.

Jorden: We walk out of the office together like, “Oh my God. What are we going to do? This is insane.” It was very stressful. Actually, I had some other stuff going on at the time, too, just within ... I think within the same week before this happened,