I overheard an interesting conversation yesterday between two men – I always seem to find myself close to interesting conversations, I think it’s my super power; it’s very handy when it comes to writing emails.
Anyway, these two chaps were talking about a son who was moving overseas soon.
Chap A, the father, was concerned that ‘it could all go wrong’ while his son was abroad and leave him in a right mess and that he (the father) was in no position to bail him out.
Chap A was really panicking.
“What if the company he works for goes bust?”
“What if they decided to get rid of him?”
There were plenty of ‘what-iffs’ from the father… sadly all were negative.
The only ‘what-iffs’ that were positive came from chap B.
“What if he doesn’t lose his job and it all goes well?”
Followed by a few ‘whys’:
“Why do you believe it will all go wrong?”
“Why do you believe you will need to bail him out?”
Chap B asked chap A, what it was that his son was going to be doing while he was overseas, and from what I can gather, he is a remote worker who works for a company here in the UK and the company has approved him to live and work abroad.
Pretty much similar to what is happening here in our business, we too have a remote worker who is moving abroad and he too will be continuing to work for us.
The more I heard the two men talk, the more I realised that the father was still living in the past. He had little to no knowledge of how the new economy works.
It is a brave new world out there and he had little understanding of it.
I don’t know if he had ever spent any time talking with his son about his work but I can only assume that he has what I call a surface level understanding.
He knows that his son works for a company here in the UK and that he works from home using a computer, but other than that, he has no idea as to what he does or how it all works.
I think that chap A is disrespecting his son by not listening to him and trusting his skills and knowledge of the situation.
His constant worrying about his son says more about his lack of understanding of the situation and the lack of trust he has in his son’s abilities.
The truth is we live in a completely different world to the one the father once ‘worked’ in.
In his day, he had very little option other than to work for local companies in their local factories and shops.
If he wanted to work for someone else in a different part of the world, he would have to move there so that he was close to the place of work.
Today we have powerful computers and the internet which allows people to do certain tasks for others no matter where they live in the world.
Instead of moving to be close to the company, we are now at a stage where some workers can move away from the company.
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Should the worst happen and the son loses his job while living abroad, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it would be any worse than losing his job if he was here in the UK.
There may be a few different ‘localised’ hurdles to deal with but on the whole, there is no reason as to why he cannot find another job or clients and carry on as before no matter where he is.
It’s possible that because of the nature of his work and the global pool of people and companies to pick from through the internet, he could find a new job the same day…. or at least some work to bring in money.
Very often it is a case of simply reaching out to people or building a network of people who are likely to want what you offer.
In previous articles I have talked about building a following. A following is a pool of people who are interested in what you say and do. Those people are likely to want to work with you or pass work your way.
I’ve talked before about the seven degrees of separation where the people you know, may know people that you need to know.
There could be one or two decent clients lurking a few social connections away.
It is far easier today to find work through the people you already know because those people now know more people and can connect with their network easier and faster than ever before.
They can soon pass work or possible clients and customers your way.
In the past I’ve also talked about incentives where you can find work quickly by simply offering a commission to anyone who passes work your way.
Offer your network of friends £200 whenever they forward someone to you who purchases a premium service from you like pay you £1,000 to write a sales letter.
People need and want money so to give them a decent sized kick back when they pass work to you is a huge motivator for others to send people your way.
In yesterdays article I talked about making money as a writer after comparing that to a couple who made £330 delivering food and drink for 24 hours around Brighton and Worthing.
A writer today can earn money writing for clients and companies all over the world. They can work remotely from anywhere as long as they have a connection to the internet.
They don’t even need to be constantly connected to the internet, they only need to be connected to send and receive work.
Unlike the couple who were delivering food locally for local businesses, they would be a little up s**t creek without a paddle if they lost their delivery job.
The fact that they are self-employed and working for several delivery companies makes it a little different but should they ever find that they were unable to work for those companies, then they would really be up s**t creek and this time they are without a canoe too.
We live in an information age where information is accessible from the palm of your hand 24 hours of the day.
What that means is that information is big business.
Information can be incredibly profitable!
The information to be shared and published whether online for free or to sell in a book or manual needs to be created and presented in a manner that people can enjoy.
Not only is publishing information big business, creating that information is also big business.
Becoming a writer means that you can earn money no matter where you or your clients are in the world. All that matters is that you are able to deliver the work once it’s completed.
There are many places to find writing work online.
It is a HUGELY in-demand skill.
Top writers can charge hundreds of pounds for simple articles and those who specialise in writing sales material like sales letters and email campaigns can charge several thousand pounds per job.
There are two things I recommend people should do and they are:
- Build an email list.
- Learn to write a sales letter.
Learning to write a sales letter is to learn how to communicate effectively and that is a skill which will always pay the bills, no matter where in the world you live.
Knowing how to write an effective sales letter, email and article can make you a lot of money in a world where publishing information is big business.
A simple sales letter which can take as little as a few hours to write could easily earn you £1,000 or more with the right client.
Write a sales letter for your own products and services and you could earn tens of thousands of pounds or more in sales.
As the Beastie Boys once said:
“I got the skills to pay the bills!”
And if you know how to write a profitable sales letter or email…. you do have the skills to pay the bills… for life!
Discover how you can write a sales letter which has the potential to earn you tens of thousands of pounds or more, click the link below:
One Letter From Retirement
Kind regards
John Harrison
PS… The term write your own
PS… Writing is the ultimate freedom giving skill. There are so many ways to make money writing…but the easiest and fastest by far is to write sales letters.
Here’s that link again: