Hey All:

I am a copywriter buiding my own business. My background is B-to-B sales in corporate America.

I have been having some success and I am thankful to have found this site. I really want to take my business to the next level!



Age
30

Location
Forida

Primary Business Venture
Copywriting

College
Georgia State University

Years in business
less than one

Favorite Interests
Travel, travel, travel.

Favorite Movie
Muriel's Wedding
Total Recall

Favorite TV Show
How I Met Your Mother
Faulty Towers

Favorite Website
Overstock.com

Hobbies
Hmmm...I haven't had time recently but usually boogie boarding, trying to exercise and reading.

I just discovered this forum, and very excited to join. I want to start freelancing, but need tons of advice. Thank you so much.

Here's some info about me:

Name
Mike Delgado

Age
31

Website
adyacker.com

Location
Orange County, CA

College
B.A. in English Literature, UCLA
M.A. in Communications - Advertising, CSUF (2007-200

Years in business
Writing professionally since 2000
Join my linkedIN account to see my full resume:
LinkedIn: Mike Delgado

Favorite Interests
- Advertising
- Search Engine Optimization
- Food

Some Favorite Books
- Naked, David Sedaris
- Fraud, David Rackoff
- Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain

Favorite Movie
- American Movie
- Rushmore

Favorite TV Show
- Seinfeld
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- The Office (BBC)
- Extras

Favorite Websites
- Copyblogger.com
- SearchEngineLand.com

Hobbies
- Writing short stories
- Cooking
- Reading
- Hiking

Hey Guys, just signed up yesterday. I'm just starting to get my copywriting business off the ground, currently i'm doing pro-bono work while reading up on as much as possible in regards to Marketing and Copywriting

Name

Justin Genovese

Age

26

Location

Toronto, Ontario Canada

Education

Film/TV Degree - Trebas Institute

Primary Business Venture

Entrepreneurship

Year in Business

uhhhh..........just started

Interests

Cooking
Movies - Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Casino, Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, The Rules Of Attraction, American Wedding etc.

TV - The Sopranos, Dexter, Curb Your Enthusiam, Entourage.

Music - Radiohead, The Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Metric, The Rolling Stones, Modest Mouse, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin.....just toooo many to name.

Books - Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
The Talisman by Stephen King
Awaken The Giant Within by Anthony Robbins
The 8th Habit by Stephen Covey
The AdWeek Copywriting Handbook by Joe Sugarman
Selling The Invisible by Harry Beckwith

Sports - HOCKEY!! Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Raptors

Favorite Sport Athletes - Bobby Orr ( The Legend )
Kyle Wellwood ( Toronto Maple Leafs )
Doug Gilmour ( Leafs Legend )
Vernon Wells ( Toronto Blue Jays )





Favorite Quote - "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything" - Teddy Roosevelt

Name
Traci Benoit

Age
26

Location
Lake Charles, Louisiana

Primary Business Venture
Writer - soon to be copywriter....

College
McNeese State University

Years in business
-Just started copywriting
-freelance writing (for money) since 2002

Favorite Interests
- family
-horses - riding, training, barrel racing, etc
-writing


Favorite Book
- Too many to list. I am a speed reader and have ready many, many great books

Favorite Movie
- Not much on movies. I like comedy and drama

Favorite TV Show
- Don't watch much tv, but I like Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives, lol

Favorite Websites
- Barrel Racing at Barrel Horse World, Barrel Horses for Sale, Barrel Racing Forums, Equine Health Articles, Western Tack, and more


Who do you look up to in business
- Haven't been here long enough to know

Hobbies
- rodeo - barrel racing
- horses
- building custom trucks/cars

Name
Mona Madry

Age
33

Location
Ashburn, Virginia
Ontario, California

etc, etc.

Primary Business Venture
Flight attendant
Ramping up to freelance write commerically

College
University of California, Berkeley

Years in business
Four in copywriting
Almost ten in marketing

Favorite Interests
Eating by a long shot. Travelling, dancing, reading, writing.


Favorite Book
Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, Gerald's Game, The Gunslinger, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Fountainhead, Freaky Friday, James and the Giant Peach

Favorite Movie
Freaky Friday, Boondock Saints

Favorite TV Show
CSI, House (but I haven't been watching), any reality tv show based on people not getting along in a house together

Favorite Websites
How about addicted to? Livejournal, Myspace, Fastcupid


Who do you look up to in business
Good God, that is a long list. Paul, Kyle, Artlyn, Jan, Temple, Tom, Ian, Angela...

Hobbies
Hula, any dance really, eating, reading, surfing, hanging out

Hi to everyone!
My name is Marija and I am currently working as a Marketing Manager.
Before I got this job (which was 5 months ago) I was working as a copywriter.
Since I loved that job cause of the creativeness I decided to join this board and get to know more copywriters and take their advices.
Much love!

Hi everyone! I just found this board and I am excited to be here. I have been on the internet since the early days of Prodigy and AOL. My main niche is in the travel industry but I have lots of irons in the fire.

I have been an internet marketer for many years and I love writing. People tell me I am great at writing self-help articles but I don't consider myself much of a sales copywriter...YET!

Anyway, it's great to be here and I look forward to getting to know all of you. Take care and have a great day!

Hello Everyone!

I have come across this forum several times before and have never been able to remember where I placed the bookmark! I finally found it today (in my Firefox bookmarks, not the IE Favorites) and decided to join your awesome community.

I’ve had a bit of article writing experience and have found that some… okay… most of those venues weren’t a good fit in terms of what I’m looking for. I’d love to work as a part time, freelance short article writer and have come here to discover where I might fit into the smaller scheme of the grander scale of ‘wordy’ things. I guess that you could say that I’m trying to find my personal writing niche. I’d like my writing to add great value to my potential customer’s niche.

So… I’m very happy to be here and look forward to learning a lot and meeting many of you!

To Your Success!

Mary Ann

Name
Mila Sidman

Age
33

Location
Hampshire, England

Primary Business Venture
Marketing, writing & transcription

College
Started but lost interest and didn't finish

Years in business
Offline 1997 - 2003
Online since 2004

Favorite Interests
Reading, marketing, spending time with my family, nice meals/nice wine

Favorite Book
Too many to choose - mainly motivational and business/success books. I like autobiographies as well.

Favorite Movie
Can't think of any specific favorite. I mainly like comedies and romantic comedies... unfortunately, not enough time to watch many movies these days

Favorite TV Show
Law and order
Desperate Housewives
The office
Green Wing

Favorite Websites
Success Doctor
Dan Kennedy

My Website(s) I wish to share

AllCustomContent.com
Private Label Content
Mila Sidman


Most beneficial ebook, course, etc.
Traffic Secrets
Mom Masterminds membership site
Success Doctor membership site

Who do you look up to in business
Michel Fortin (coaching with Michal has been an amazing experience)
John Reese (very cool and smart guy)
Ken Envoy (my intro to internet marketing)
Alice Seba (friend and business partner)

Hobbies
running
leisurely lunches and dinners with good friends
running around after my kids at the park or anywhere else!

Favorite Quote
I have many but here are two..

You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Ghandi

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out - Robert Collier

I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you, learning lots and giving back. Thanks!

Name
Ollan

Age
Middle-aged

Location
San Francisco Bay Area

Primary Business Venture
Internet Marketing / IT Consultant

College
The School of Hard Knocks
(actually, I did attend a JC for 2 months in 1981)

Years in business
Information Technology: December 1981 to Present
Internet Marketing: Since 2002

Favorite Interests
*My Family
*Checking my Clickbank/Google/YPN/CJ etc. stats
*Custom Cars - Specifically, BMW 7-series and Ford Expeditions
*Bass Guitars
*Travel
*Surfing the Internet

Favorite Book
*Scientific Advertising
*Copywriter's Handbook
*Rich Dad, Poor Dad


Favorite Movie
*Ronin
*The Fifth Element
*AI

Favorite TV Show
*24
*CSI
*The Riches
*The Sopranos
*Scrubs

Websites I'd like to share!
warriorforum.com
cardomain.com

Who do you look up to in business
*My Late Father
*Perry Marshall
*Sean D'Souza
*Paul Hartunian
*Fred Gleeck
*Trump

Hobbies
*Table Tennis
*Bass Guitar
*Custom Cars & Trucks