For copywriters
Every project starts with “what would something like this cost?” and a brief that says nothing. Ask the missing question before anybody books, take a deposit, and sell your month to the clients who keep coming back.
Questions copywriters ask
Should a copywriter charge per word or per project?
Per project. Per word pays you less for writing less, and good copy is usually shorter.
How much should a copywriter charge for a website?
Price it by the pages and what each one must do, never by the word count. Quote one number with the rounds of revisions written in.
What should a copywriting agreement say about rights?
That your client owns the words once they’re paid for, and whether you can show them in your portfolio. The project agreement your page starts with says both.
How do I stop a project stalling on feedback?
Put a date for feedback in the agreement, and invoice the balance on a set day after delivery, feedback or not.
Should a copywriter sell templates?
If you write the same kind of thing for many clients, yes. An email sequence or a sales page outline sold as a file reaches the people who can’t hire you yet.
How should a copywriter price a retainer?
A set amount of writing a month for a set fee, a little below the same work bought one project at a time. The discount pays for the certainty, on both sides.
What gets in the way
Every project starts with “what would something like this cost?” and a brief that says almost nothing.
You’re paid on delivery, and delivery waits on your client’s feedback.
Your best clients want you every month, and they buy you one project at a time.
Your page on the first day
This is the design or creative setup, and it’s what your page starts with. Change any of it where it appears.
- Clients can book from tomorrow onward.
- Moving or canceling is free up to 24 hours before.
- Before booking, your page asks: “What are we making, and by when?”
Your project agreement opens with this: Half of the project price is due up front and half on delivery. The scope is what we agreed in writing; new work is a new agreement.
What’s different for copywriters
A question before every booking
Your page asks one question before anybody books. Change it to whatever your briefs always leave out.
Monthly availability
Days held for a client each month, renewing on their card. A client who would send you a project a month pays for the month instead.
What it doesn’t do for you
There’s no document editor, no comment threads and no approval steps. You’ll write and share drafts where you do now.
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