That was a close one.
Remember when I lost all my blog posts last month? Well I tried to get as many of the valuable posts back as I could from Google’s cache.
One post that I didn’t find the first time around was an awesome interview I did with Ryan Healy.
I was reminded of it when I saw that the interview he gave me was still one of the most popular posts on his blog. Well, I didn’t want to lose this interview. I got Google up and running again and searched for that interview…
…I had to be clever, but I found it. So here it is, once again. The interview!
1. What attracted you to copywriting?
Actually, copywriting found me.
Starting in the 8th grade, I knew I would be a writer. I wrote for the high school paper, poetry journals, and the college paper. I wrote essays, speeches, and fiction — the whole gamut.
At every job I had, people would come to me to edit their writing. At Merrill Lynch, my managers would have me edit and rewrite their most important emails before they sent them out! (I wasn’t hired to do this; it just kind of happened.)
Anyway, I was approached by the owner of Sonlight Curriculum to write copy for him. He wanted to replace himself. He knew I loved to write and had an entrepreneurial bent, so he hired me.
I spent three years writing sales copy for him and his company, and doing all their Internet marketing.
And that is how copywriting found me.
This interview is continued over at my new blog, click here to keep reading.