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I want to tell you about my very first freelance writing contract. Back in 2020, I was just starting out in the freelance world. A marketing company, after seeing my writing samples, asked me to write 7 blog posts about windows. That's all the direction they gave me. No specific topic, no pain points, no target audience.....just windows. So I said, "Absolutely!" I knew nothing about windows other than how to look through them or give them a lazy clean with Windex, but it was a real paid writing opportunity for $35 per article. I brainstormed as much as I could for interesting articles about windows. When I had exhausted all of the brainpower (and coffee) I had, I counted my article ideas. Crap, that's only 5. How the hell can I write SEVEN articles about windows? As it does sometimes, a burst of creativity came to me and I was able to drum up two more topics to cover: How do those interrogation room, one-way mirror windows work? and, What is life like for a high-rise window cleaner? Not bad, right? 😜 I wrote the articles, submitted them to the client, and prayed that they wouldn't come back to me saying this is crap, we never should've hired you. (The usual self-doubt that writers are too good at). A few days later, an email from them arrived in my inbox that said, "Andrew, your window articles are fantastic. Can you do 7 more?" Are you kidding!? Seven more!? Okay 🙂 I'll do it. I tell this story because I was talking with a company the other day about a potential engagement for their sustainable window innovation and it reminded me about the first time I wrote about windows. A lot has changed since then, but it did teach me some valuable lessons. You have to do heavy research before writing about a topic, and if I can write 14 articles about windows, I can find interesting stories for just about anything. Anyone else have a fun 'first contract' story? For anyone interested, here's that article on how one-way mirrors work. https://lnkd.in/dkhW4C7J

One-Way Mirror Windows - Acorn Window Cleaning Melbourne

One-Way Mirror Windows - Acorn Window Cleaning Melbourne

https://acornclean.com.au

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