Editors

Steve Slaunwhite

Steve Slaunwhite is an award-winning copywriter, marketing coach and author.

His books include Start & Run A Copywriting Business, Secrets Of Six-Figure Freelancing and The Everything Guide To Writing Copy - all released through major publishers. He is also the creator of two popular home-study courses: Secrets Of Strategic Copywriting and Marketing Your Design Business (with Michael Huggins).

Recently Penguin Press, one of the world’s largest publishers, picked Steve to write The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting a Web-Based Business. (His friends say he qualifies.)

A recognized expert on successful freelancing, Steve’s insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Inside Direct Mail, Vancouver Sun, Insurance Marketing, Sales & Marketing Journal, Work-At-Home Expo, The Writer, Writers Digest, Home Business Report and dozens of other publications.

Each year hundreds of freelance professionals learn how to attract more clients and better paying projects through Steve’s courses, seminars and coaching programs. As a successful freelancer himself, he has used the techniques he teaches to land such clients as UPS, Symantec, Forbes, Canadian Business magazine, Hoovers, Scotts Directories, Hewlett-Packard and dozens of others.

To learn more about Steve’s books and programs, and to get a FREE copy of The Copywriters Success Kit visit www.ForCopywritersOnly.com.

Pete Savage

Freelance Copywriter
Publisher, SAVAGE Marketing
Host, The Freelancer’s Friday Call-In Club

Pete Savage is a freelance copywriter, speaker, and coach whose insights have been published in the World’s Best Kept Copywriting Secrets Vol. II, and by the Canadian Professional Sales Association, SixFigureJobs.com and more.

Every Friday, Pete hosts The Freelancer’s Friday Call-In Club, the world’s only FREE teleseminar club dedicated to answering real-world questions from freelance professionals.

Participation in The Freelancer’s Friday Call-In Club is free for subscribers to the SAVAGE Marketing newsletter (also free!) where Pete shares his success strategies for every aspect of life as a freelancer.

Pete has built a successful freelance copywriting business “by hand” - without relying on any of the over-hyped, promise-laden success “solutions” that suffocate and frustrate so many fledgling and aspiring freelance copywriters.

He’s accumulated an enviable client list, and written marketing materials of all descriptions for companies like Motorola, HP, AT&T Wireless, 3M, AOL, Delta Faucet, Sears, Siemens, NCR, and RIM (makers of the BlackBerry®).

In 2007, Pete wrote and launched his own direct mail self-promotion campaign that shattered even his own expectations for success. He reveals all the details of his winning package in his new ebook, The Freelance Copywriter’s $64,000 Direct Mail Self-Promotion Package!

Visit SAVAGE Marketing for a free download of Pete’s popular presentation, “The 16 Critical Questions Every Writer Should Ask To Start Every Project Off Right!”

Ed Gandia

Freelance Copywriter
Publisher, The Profitable Freelancer
Author, Stop Wishing and Start Earning

Ed Gandia has been a working freelance copywriter since March 2004. In only 27 months-and while holding a demanding full-time sales job-Ed took his part-time freelance business from zero to a six-figure income without sacrificing his paycheck or putting his family’s financial future at risk.

Ed attributes much of his freelance success to his 11-year career as a sales professional in the high tech and industrial arenas. During that time, Ed built and managed new sales territories for demanding sales organizations. Working in results-oriented environments taught him how to start and grow a business from the ground up and with limited resources. It also helped him develop the self-confidence and work ethic necessary to succeed as a freelancer.

Since 2004, Ed has written copy for more than two dozen clients. He is the author of Stop Wishing and Start Earning: A Low-Risk Plan to Escape 9-5 and Launch a Profitable Copywriting Business and the editor of The Profitable Freelancer, a free biweekly e-newsletter that helps both working and aspiring freelancers across all professions launch, run and grow their businesses profitably.

Contributors

Michael Huggins

Michael Huggins helps design business owners and other creative entrepreneurs attract more clients, make more money and grow their business. He does that through his coaching programs, audio classes, books and articles. He is the publisher of www.ForGraphicDesignersOnly.com one of the most popular e-newsletters and podcasts in the industry, and the author of the breakthrough program www.MarketingYourDesignBusiness.com. Michael is professionally accredited as a Registered Graphic Designer (RGD).

Peter Bowerman

Peter Bowerman, a freelance copywriter, speaker and business coach, is the author of the award-winning Well-Fed Writer titles - how-to “standards” on lucrative freelancing for businesses. Sign up for his acclaimed ezine and blog at www.wellfedwriter.com. In 2007, leveraging the successful self-publishing of his first two books (52,000 copies in print, and a full-time living for five-plus years), he released The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living. (www.wellfedsp.com).

Dean Rieck

Dean Rieck is known as the “go to” copywriter and designer for many of today’s direct marketing leaders. Dean has made sales, generated leads, and raised funds for more than 200 businesses in dozens of industries in the U.S. and around the world. Sign up for his popular monthly newsletter at www.DirectCreative.com. You’ll get proven tips on how to create highly effective direct mail, e-mail, Web sites, and ads, plus practical advice on freelance success. Subscribers also get a free copy of Dean’s 16-page report “99 Easy Ways to Boost Your Direct Mail Response.”

Nick Usborne

Nick Usborne is a freelance copywriter, speaker, trainer, author and business coach. He has written, consulted and conducted training for companies as diverse as Yahoo!, Disney, Intuit, Encyclopedia Britannica, MSN and many others. Find out how to double your freelance income through his coaching site at www.AskNickUsborne.com. Nick has also gathered together a valuable collection of articles and reviews for freelance copywriters at www.freelancewritingsuccess.com.

  

Paul Lima

Paul Lima has worked as a freelance writer and communications trainer since 1993. He has written for the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, National Post, CBC.ca, and other periodicals. For corporate clients, he writes case studies, media releases and promotional copy, and conducts business writing and media interview preparation seminars. He also conducts freelance writing and business writing e-courses. Paul has written eight books on the business of freelance writing and business writing. Read more about him, and read his freelance writer’s blog, online at www.PaulLima.com.

Dianna Huff

Dianna Huff, principal of DH Communications, Inc. specializes in B2B marketing communications consulting and copywriting for companies such as Cabot Corporation,Thermo Scientific, Coldwell Banker, and a host of small to mid-size companies and agencies. Dianna has contributed to many online publications including Marketing Sherpa,  and Search Engine News, and has been quoted in numerous books and articles. She publishes her own e-newsletter, The MarCom Strategist, as well as the MarCom Writer Blog (www.marcom-writer-blog.com).

 

Jennifer Remling

Jennifer Remling, founder of Carve Your Own Road www.carveyourownroad.com, had become successful by all traditional standards, but she simply wasn’t fulfilled. Today, Jennifer’s passion for understanding the entrepreneurial spirit is helping people redefine how and where they work to achieve career fulfillment on their own terms. A frequent speaker on the topic of professional development, Jennifer has been featured in media outlets like MSNBC.com and The New York Post and has a book coming out in April 2009.