Even the most experienced copywriters can suffer from confidence wobbles. Those moments you begin to question your writing abilities or your business skills... or both! In this podcast, we chat through some confidence blurts copywriters have kindly shared with us and add our own experiences and tips on overcoming them!

Tune to hear us chat about confidence blurts like:

• Comparing yourself (and your writing) to others
• Answering the phone
• Communicating off the page (verbally)
• Meeting clients to discuss projects
• Preparing quotes and getting clients through the sales process
• Getting negative feedback
• Questioning your writing skills
• Keeping the pipeline consistently full
• Waiting for clients to get back to you
• Lack of experience

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Thanks to Jenny De Lacy, Lisa Cropman, Jodi Gibson, Rashida Tayabali, Anne Maybus, Nicole Leedham, Matt Fenwick, Katherine Elizabeth, Rose Spagnolo for sharing their wobbles in Kate’s Clever Copywriting School.

Useful links

• The Clever Copywriting School coaching calls
• Belinda’s copywriting coaching and mentoring
• G+: Clever Copywriting community
• FB Group: The Cult of Copy
• FB Group: Online copywriters

Today we’re talking to Ryan Wallman Head of Copy at Wellmark a Melbourne creative agency that specialising in niche industries and in particular healthcare and pharmaceutical communications.
Ryan has an alter ego Dr Draper on Twitter and is a well known name in copywriting circles.

Tune in to learn:

• What a Head of Copy job entails
• How Ryan started out as a copywriter?
• Advice for copywriters considering specialisation?
• Whether you need qualifications to become a medical copywriter?
• Tips for breaking into agency land?
• Ryan's biggest challenges in his copywriter career
• Ryan's creative process
• Tips for newbie copywriters

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If you like what you’re hearing on Hot Copy, the best way to support the show is to take just a few seconds to leave a rating and / or comment over on iTunes or Stitcher. Thanks!

Thanks to Andrea Rowe from Your Coastal Connection for her fab review, read out on the show.

Find out more at:

• Linkedin
• Wellmark blog
• Wellmark
• Twitter

Links mentioned in this article:

• 'A beautiful constraint’ book 
• Ad Teachings (Suzanne Pope)
• Andy Maslen’s copywriting books 
• Dave Trott’s books 
• Drayton Bird’s books 
• Mark Duffy’s article on unexpected visuals 
• Nick Asbury’s site
• Ogilvy on Advertising
• Product copy agency
• Rory Sutherland’s article