Copywriting.org Interviews Daniel Roman Quipit

I discovered copywriting by accident.

A little over 3 years ago when COVID hit, our family business was shutdown along with all other businesses around the world. So, our income was heavily heavily affected.

That’s why I decided to try my luck with online jobs. I tried sharing my writing samples [blog/article that I have written for a friend’s blog] to a friend of mine who was working with a virtual assistance agency with the hopes of getting any job that is related to the only skill that I had back then.

Then with a stroke of luck, I landed my first ever client a week after I submitted my samples.

But during the onboarding, things got really interesting and nerve-racking.

When the call began, the client started talking about writing “copy” — like structures, frameworks, and so on…

And I didn’t really pay that much attention because I applied for “content writing” and I thought copywriting was for someone else in that group zoom call.

Then he asked “who’s the copywriter here”…

I didn’t even bother answering because, again, I thought I was there as the content writer.

But then, one of the facilitator of the call said “It’s Daniel”…

In my head, I was like… “what? me? Copywriter? I don’t even know what copy or copywriting is!”

All of a sudden I got really nervous because now, I know that every time the client ask any questions regarding the role, I’ll have no idea what to answer him.

So, my mind just went on auto-pilot and became a “yeah… yeah… nod… nod…” robot.

Fortunately, despite my apparent ignorance with the role, the prospective client still pushed through the 20 hour paid trial.

So after the call, I frantically asked google what copywriting was and what copywriter does.

And that’s how I discovered “Copywriting”.