Every Freelance Copywriter Needs To Install Their Very Own Bat Phone
Optional Description: Once you become busy as a freelance copywriter, you can’t afford to answer the phone every time it rings. And if you’re not yet loaded with projects, you’d be better to pretend you are. Otherwise, copywriting prospects may think you are desperate for work, and talk you down in your fees. At the same time it’s important to have open communication with those clients who are paying you money to write copy. Here’s my unique solution gleaned from too much time as a child, watching Batman.
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I recently installed a “Bat Phone.”
Remember the old campy Adam West Batman series? Whenever Commissioner Gordon called, a red phone in Wayne Manor’s library would start flashing.
Alfred would come along, pick it up, and say in that servile English-butler voice, “Yes?… One moment, please.”
Then he’d go grab Bruce who’d be doing something heroic like teaching Dick how to bake no-fat brownies. They both race to the phone to find out which felon had broken out of Gotham City’s...