Ashley Gainer: Stubbornness Equals Success
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English - November 02, 2020 05:15 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBEntrepreneurship Business blogger entrepreneur pinterest pitch remotework amwriting contentmanager editing freelancer freelancewriter Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today we’ll be chatting with a very successful freelance writer and online business owner, Ashley Gainer.
Ashley is the founder of Gainer Ink and has been a freelance writer and editor for more than ten years. She’s worked with clients across a variety of industries including career advancement, internet marketing, B2B, ecommerce, entrepreneurship, web design and more. After writing more blog posts than she can count, Ashley now ghostwrites game-changing books for entrepreneurs with big ideas and her agency provides funnel copy for great offers.
In 2015 Ashley opened the Ink Well Guild, a learning platform for new freelance writers. Nearly 1,000 students have benefited from her no-fluff, no-hype approach and countless others are listening in on her podcast, Copy Chatter.
Why should YOU tune-in?
Ever want to be able to make money working from home but you don’t think you’re the type to make it? Then you should definitely tune-in because Ashley is a mom who was never super ambitious about making a ton of money online and yet her most profitable month was $20,000! She just wanted to be able to make “enough” money and be able to be home with her kiddos.
What we’re talking about:
Repositioning yourself and your business Working from home and having more babies Books and sales funnels Why books are great tools for marketing More and more businesses are transitioning online Facebook ads Being a mom and an entrepreneur Getting started with the online biz Finding your niche Freelance writing
Links mentioned in this episode:
How to make your writing portfolio
Minute-by-minute breakdown:
1:31 – Explaining to friends and family what it is you do for a living
3:09 – Where do you spend your time on Facebook?
4:14 – Tips and tools to contain the amount of time spent on Facebook
4:28 – What takes up the majority of your time right now?
5:59 – Ashley’s home life
8:22 – Does working online allow people to have more children?
9:26 – Why would a small business owner or entrepreneur want to self-publish a book?
15:23 – COVID’s impact on Ashley’s business
17:17 – Ashley’s income
19:53 – Normal life, being a mom, business and just showing up
22:52 – The beginning stages – how Ashley got started
28:59 – So what did you write? What was your first paid project and how much did you make?
30:21 – What was the most you've ever made writing blogs or articles and where did you find that client?
32:17 – The biggest contribution to Ashley’s success
33:08 – What's next
34:15 – Ashley's one piece of advice