We've chatted in previous podcasts about how it's impossible to make all clients love you, and how occasionally it's better all around if you just let them go.

In this podcast we'll be giving you tips and tricks on how to spot, handle and, if necessary, fire a difficult client.

Tune in to learn:

• How to spot bad clients
• Tips and tricks to get difficult clients back on track
• How to decide if firing a client is the right move
• How to do the dirty deed of firing a client
• Dealing with the aftermath of client firing

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And thanks to the members of the Clever Copywriting Community Lizzy Pepper and Mary Cameron, as well as Angela Denly for your input and reviews of the show. We appreciate it!

Links mentioned in this article:

• Crappy clients: How to spot, avoid, manage and fire them - Kate Toon Copywriter
• The Zen Guide to Shitty Clients - Kate Toon Copywriter
• Copywriting: Good client, Bad client - Kate Toon Copywriter
• The magic phrase that lets you say no to copywriting clients (without burning your reputation forever) - Copywrite Matters
• Copywriting templates email pack - The Clever Copywriting School

Once you’ve got a few copywriting projects under your belt, you learn that some clients will respond very quickly and others will take a short ice age to reply. But how long is too long? When do you know your client is MISSING IN ACTION and what should you do?

Tune in to learn:

• Why clients legitimately go missing
• How long should you wait?
• How too long is too long?
• How you can avoid having clients go missing
• How to follow up with clients after the quote, proposal, first draft and last draft
• What to do if the worst happens.

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And thanks to Mac Prichard for his review of the show. We appreciate it!

Links mentioned in this article:

• End of project sign off document - The Clever Copywriting School
• Copywriting templates email pack - The Clever Copywriting School
• The Zen Guide to Shitty Clients - Kate Toon
• Optimum Recoveries - an Australian debt collection agency

Blogging certainly isn’t new but it is a source of anxiety for many new copywriters, especially when it feels like it’s all been done before.

In this episode, Kate and Belinda break down the walls of blogging, sharing their views on the importance of blogging and how to get your blog working hard for your business. 

Tune to learn:

• If you actually need to blog
• How to write authority
• If copywriting is all you can and should write about
• Why Kate says vagina multiple times
• How often you should blog
• How long your blogs need to be
• Tips on writing about well covered topics
• Where to get blog ideas
• Guest posting, on your blog and others
• How to get your blogs noticed

And thanks to Melissa East for her 5 star review of the show. We appreciate it!

Tell us what you think 

Leave your thoughts and ideas on the Hot Copy website.

And subscribe on: iTunes | Android | RSS

Share the pod love!

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!

And a big shout out to Melissa East for her 5 star review of the show. We appreciate it!

Resources mentioned in the show:

• Kate’s Tip: Using Text to Voice
• BuzzSumo
• Copyscape: plagiarism checker
• Copywrite Matters guest blog guidelines