I Owe My Success to a Cheeseburger

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So, it wasn’t out-of-character for me to stand my ground when everyone I knew was quite skeptical about my writing career ambitions. “How are you going to be a writer?” “What have you written?” “Who is going to listen to you?” I’ve heard it all, and in the beginning I really didn’t care about the amount of people waiting to say "I told you so" when I would inevitably give up. But a couple of years after pronouncing myself a “freelance writer and editor,” things started to get a bit scary. I wasn’t getting the long-term work and challenging projects that I hoped would grow my business. Every time I ran into a former colleague who had given up on content writing and currently had a completely different job, it got a little scarier. “Writing? I don’t do that anymore. Not for work. You don’t make a living writing.” Maybe everyone else was right. Maybe I was ridiculous to think I could become a full-time writer and editor. Your writing skills alone don’t build a business One day, I was sitting in my car while stuck in traffic. I looked up at a giant billboard that sat above the crowded intersection and noticed the ad was for McDonald’s. If a company as large as McDonald’s still needs to promote their offers (in this case, a cheeseburger), why did I think I could grow my business without strategically marketing my services? In that moment, I realized there was so much more that I needed to do to sell myself as a freelance writer and editor. What were you doing when you realized you need to learn how to sell? 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