{"id":1034,"date":"2017-12-19T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T08:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2018-01-04T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T03:20:48","slug":"micro-agency-copywriter-jamie-jensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/micro-agency-copywriter-jamie-jensen\/","title":{"rendered":"TCC Podcast #62: The ins and outs of creating a micro-agency with Jamie Jensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the 62nd episode of\u00a0<em>The Copywriter Club Podcast<\/em>, Kira and Rob brought former screenwriter, movie producer and copywriter Jamie Jensen into the studio to talk all about her copy business. She shares the good and the bad and why she decided to shut down her agency just as it was really taking off. We also talked about:<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0how her dad unknowingly put her on the path to copywriting as a kid<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0why she left Hollywood to make her own movie, then jumped to copywriting<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0what she did early on to attract clients to her business (her no-strategy strategy)<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0how she developed a unique brand voice (Hollywood helped)<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0the systems and processes she used to connect with her customers<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0the place honesty and enthusiasm plays in attracting clients to her<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0why she decided to grow a micro-agency instead of staying a sole proprietor<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0the challenges the come with running an agency\u2014she shares the dark side<\/p>\n<p>We also asked Jamie about what she\u2019s doing today, the course she just created and launched, and her one word tip for course creators. Lots of laughter in this one and some painful lessons.\u00a0Click\u00a0the play button below, or scroll down for a full transcript.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6017\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1034-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/content.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/TCC062JJ.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/content.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/TCC062JJ.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/content.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/TCC062JJ.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/content.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/TCC062JJ.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1034-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/content.blubrry.com\/thecopywriterclub\/TCC062JJ.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"TCC062JJ.mp3\">Download<\/a><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/thecopywriterclub.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The people and stuff we mentioned on the show:<\/h3>\n<p><em>Sponsor:<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airstory.co\/club?utm_source=thecopywriterclub.com &amp;utm_medium=shownotes\">AirStory<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1935139\/\"><em>Hannah Has a Ho Phase<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/members.theuncagedlife.com?utm_source=thecopywriterclub.com&amp;utm_medium=shownotes\"><em>Uncage Your Business<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/highly-sensitive-entrepreneur-heather-dominick\/\">Heather Dominick<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourhotcopy.com\/storyschool\/?utm_source=thecopywriterclub.com&amp;utm_medium=shownotes\"><em>Story School<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yourhotcopy.com\/?utm_source=thecopywriterclub.com&amp;utm_medium=shownotes\">Your Hot Copy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kirahug.com?utm_source=thecopywriterclub.com&amp;utm_medium=shownotes\">Kira\u2019s website<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/kaleighmoore.us11.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=7bdb50a2eb0d5b0a501cd1bf4&amp;id=9bf46b3e1d\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandstoryonline.com?utm_source=thecopywriterclub.com&amp;utm_medium=shownotes\">Rob\u2019s website<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/kaleighmoore.us11.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=7bdb50a2eb0d5b0a501cd1bf4&amp;id=9bf46b3e1d\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/thecopywriterclub\/\">The Copywriter Club Facebook Group<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Intro:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/fauves\/content-for-now\">Content (for now)<\/a><br \/>\nOutro:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/gravity\/id304219081?i=304219099\">Gravity<\/a>\n<h3>Full Transcript:<\/h3>\n<p><em>The Copywriter Club Podcast<\/em> is sponsored by Airstory, the writing platform for professional writers who want to get more done in half the time. Learn more at Airstory.co\/club.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1046 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jamie-jensen-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"Copywriter Jamie Jensen\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jamie-jensen-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jamie-jensen-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jamie-jensen-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jamie-jensen-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jamie-jensen-1-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jamie-jensen-1-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jamie-jensen-1.png 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Kira:<\/strong> What if you can hang out with seriously talented copywriters and other experts, ask them about their successes and failures, their work processes and their habits. Then steal an idea or two to inspire your own work. That\u2019s what Rob and I do every week at <em>The Copywriter Club Podcast<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>You\u2019re invited to join the club for episode 62 as we chat with copywriter, filmmaker, and storyteller Jamie Jensen, about going from Hollywood to hot copy, the importance of storytelling when it comes to writing copy with personality, working with a team of writers, the ins and outs of creating courses, and how making a movie made her a better copywriter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Jamie, welcome!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Thank you! Thank you so much for having me!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> It\u2019s great to have you, yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Yeah! You were on our list early on as someone that we wanted on the show and it\u2019s nice to have a fellow New Yorker on the show, as well! So a great place to start is, you know, you went from Hollywood to hot copy. So we want to know, how did you even get into copywriting?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Sure! Well, what\u2019s interesting is for me, for my story, is that my dad was an entrepreneur, so I actually grew up with a lot of like, copywriting things around me already, meaning, not just like, from the sales perspective of reading books about sales and marketing and all of that stuff, like, they were always around the house because my dad was marketing his own business, and doing things like buying domain names up and coming up with catchy things that he wanted to trademark for his business. And even like, direct mail was still a big thing then, so I would even help him like, review mailers that he was sending out to his physical mailing list, because that was a thing, you know?<\/p>\n<p>And so I actually grew up exposed to a lot of that to begin with, and the way that I made the transition from Hollywood to hot copy was I had made a film. So you know, I left Hollywood, I\u2019d kind of had enough, came back to New York City where I\u2019m from, and my producing partner and I decided at the time that we were going to just make our own film. So I had already written the script and she had been working on it as a producer and we decided like, you know what? Forget guys, by the way, because at this point we had both had a lot of negative experiences with men in the entertainment industry; we were like, we\u2019re going to shoot this movie\u2014no offense, Rob\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> Well, I was going to say, it\u2019s not like men in the entertainment industry have a bad name or anything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> I mean&#8230; no! They\u2019re so respectful to women! Have you watched the news lately? <em>(laughs) <\/em>It\u2019s so great!<\/p>\n<p>So, we were like we\u2019re going to make our movie ourselves, we\u2019re going to have a fully female crew, it\u2019s going to be amazing, so we did and that was amazing. And ultimately, it ended up being digitally distributed, so we got a digital distribution deal with one of the digital distribution companies and that really taught me a lot about like, digital marketing and you know, we had started working with this one consultant&#8230; who&#8230; I don\u2019t think that it was very helpful actually, when we worked with them, but we just had to figure so much out about like, okay, well, we\u2019re going to be on iTunes, and what does that mean, and how do we launch? Just all of the things that come with like, launching a piece of content digitally that weren\u2019t things that we necessarily thought about or had learned in grad school with producing, because we had learned like, the business of the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>And so, kind of making that transition and having to think through the marketing process like, even just putting my head into it kind of got me more thinking about you know, digital marketing and like, what room there is for different types of content on the internet and what the value of content on the internet is and how it all works and where those things cross over.<\/p>\n<p>I had to write copy, we had to write copy for our film. We had to write like, descriptions, and we had to create a website, and it\u2019s funny looking back now, now that I know what I know, also if I could go back in time, what I would do differently with that as well. But just figuring out that process kind of got me into thinking about like, just writing other types of things for hire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Interesting, and so, what would you do differently if you looked back on that time when you were marketing your movie?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>I mean, the website wasn\u2019t very awesome. <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>Can we see it? Is it something that we can find?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> It\u2019s not! We actually like, gave up, we shut down; we still have the domain, but we shut down the website about a year ago and the movie is still on iTunes and it\u2019s &#8211; so you can go and watch the trailer, it\u2019s around, but the website is not still live. It\u2019s just looking back now, I think we could\u2019ve had a lot of fun marketing the movie and kind of developing more of an audience for it before we released it, you know, and obviously foresight is 20\/20, but we were so focused on creating the project and that was so much investment and so much work and time and energy that I don\u2019t know that it would\u2019ve been possible to do more, but I wish that we would have. You know?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>We\u2019re going to link to like, the IMDB page, so that everyone can see your movie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Okay! Sure! <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> What is it called?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>It\u2019s called <em>Hannah Has a Ho-Phase<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>Oh! Right, okay. So, you realize that there\u2019s other opportunities for copywriting, marketing opportunities; how did that turn into your business? Is there a rough year you can give us because I want to dig into those early days in your business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> So, I had actually, there were a few different ways that I had kind of, ran around and ended up\u2014Hot Copy became a business. And so, initially, when I decided to branch out and start my own business, I was interested in copy. Because I was doing it for free for people already, like I had friends that I went to high school with who were creative entrepreneurs and they were starting their own businesses and they were coming to me to help them with their about pages and they were coming to me to help them with their website copy.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I wasn\u2019t even considering that that was something that people could pay me for, it was just the person people came to for that. That was a hint that like, you know when like a guy is interested in a girl, and it\u2019s really obvious to everyone but the girl? It\u2019s like, that was my relationship with copy in the beginning. It was like, oh yeah, totally, like this is so the thing that I do, but total unawareness around the fact that it\u2019s a valuable service to offer someone, so I actually, when I first branched out into having a business, I was excited about coaching writers and working with writers, particularly after leaving Hollywood and developing more of what I consider life-balance for myself as a writer.<\/p>\n<p>So I was excited to work with other writers who were doing time in Hollywood and help them kind of design more of a lifestyle that was healthy and look at other streams of income that they could be creating for themselves while they were kind of waiting for their projects to pop, essentially. So, that was kind of when I first started my business, I want to say that was like 2012. That was what I intended on doing.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s funny is, that\u2019s ultimately what my agency ended up becoming anyway. So, that was what I intended on doing and I did coach a handful of writers in the beginning and it was only through like six straight months of considering building a business and not really going full time and figuring it out and then it dawned on me that I was writing copy for free. And writing my own copy as I was building my own business and realizing like, oh, this is the thing that I actually want to be doing that feels really good and exciting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>So Jamie, I think a lot of copywriters would be very envious to hear that projects were just falling into your lap, almost, but you must\u2019ve been doing something to draw attention to what you were writing or the clients that you were working with that brought in additional clients, so you know, what was it that you were doing that was attracting them to you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>Well, I didn\u2019t fully open up shop. I didn\u2019t decide that like, I hadn\u2019t committed fully that copywriting was going to be my business 100% until like, six months into discovering what my business was, so it wasn\u2019t until I believe, March 2013, and at the end of 2012, I had signed up for a business course with Rebecca Tracy, <em>Uncage Your Business<\/em>, who I adore, she\u2019s a great friend of mine, and it was through that process of doing that course, like trying to develop this like, I want to work with writers, I don\u2019t know how, but like, I really want to help them&#8230; and writing copy&#8230; and so that was initially the people I was writing for were the people that knew me from other parts of my life, like I was bartending, I had people who knew me from the bar business, and a lot of the people in the bar business were also creatives.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them were graphic designers, and they did freelance at ad agencies also, so just kind of honestly, being me, showing up in the world as myself, brought clients to me. And I know that that sounds really corny, but it\u2019s true; I showed up as me in this business course and I was just being funny and writing great copy and making jokes and then people wanted my help with things that they were trying to create or name or come up with taglines for, and I ended up showing up in Rebecca Tracy\u2019s Facebook group, like her free Facebook group, again, just as myself, having fun, being helpful to people. Honestly, in the beginning, I had no specific strategy around getting clients. I was just like, hey, I\u2019m so excited to be doing this now!<\/p>\n<p>And I know that that sounds really awful, but like, that\u2019s the honest truth, you know when people ask me like, what I did, I\u2019m like, I didn\u2019t strategically search for clients, I was actually enjoying bartending and I knew that I wanted to eventually stop but I was in no rush to be like, oh I need this to replace my income tomorrow. You know? I was in a very big debate with myself over how much I would miss and I do miss bartending because I get to physically be with people in a space; that does not exist now. Because I\u2019m a gremlin in a room by myself all day now, which is not always the funnest. And like, what I always tell copywriters when I\u2019m working with people, especially in the beginning, is that the best thing that you can do for your business, especially in the first 6 months, is do great work for people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>Totally agree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Yeah, oh my gosh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Like, a lot of my clients in the beginning were just like, wow\u2019d with the work that I was doing. They loved the experience of working with me, I made it easy and fun, I created a very professional system and process from the beginning so that they felt really taken care of and it was just &#8211; their experience as a client, the product they received, you know, they just loved working with me. And then it became word of mouth and referrals and they just kept coming. You know, I really believe that focusing on like, your current clients is the most valuable thing you can do for your clients. Especially in the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s obsessed with marketing and everyone\u2019s obsessed with funnels and like, how can I bring in leads and lead generation and I\u2019m like, take really good care of your clients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>Yeah, let\u2019s unpack that just a little bit. You said you developed some systems and processes that made it really easy to work with you. Tell us about what that looked like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> So I have a very clear brand voice, right? Like, Your Hot Copy is a very clear brand voice and that was clear from the beginning. So I\u2019m also not going to discount that I think that having been a writer in Hollywood, which meant that for years prior to starting my business, I was already in the process of, well, what\u2019s your voice and what\u2019s marketable about you? And thinking in terms of like, okay, well, what\u2019s sexy about this project? So already having thought that way and already having done this work on voice and what makes me marketable and what\u2019s like, cool about me as a writer and what makes me pitchable and sexy and interesting to work on a project, it was kind of like I\u2019d already laid the foundation of thinking through who I was and what made me appealing as a writer. So by the time I launched my copywriting business, that was already clear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> So when I launched my first brand, I was like, oh, duh, I\u2019m just going to take all of this and apply it to this business because I\u2019ve already done the foundational work of people knowing who I am, what I sound like, what kind of writer I am, what experience they\u2019re going to get. So there was a consistent brand voice throughout the process. For example, my website spoke volumes about who I was. Even my first website &#8211; I did the work for myself before I did it for my clients. So, my website sold me. And then, you know, when people kind of went through the process, the onboarding process of hiring me, every touch point was on brand.<\/p>\n<p>So you know, they fill out an inquiry form to potentially hire me, they get an auto-responder back that\u2019s the same level of fun and excitement as the rest of my website, and then when I reach out to them to schedule a call, again, they get a message from me that\u2019s communicating the same experience level, the same voice, the same you know, they\u2019re in the same world, if that makes sense. So a lot of those touch points, like, I just kept consistent, like the brand voice was consistent so there was just this like, consistency that allowed clients to feel taken care of and they could trust the experience and trust the process and know that I\u2019m not a phony.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like, it\u2019s confusing for people when they see one thing but then get another thing on the back end. So there\u2019s that part, and then also, once people booked with me, I just had a very like, I have a very systematic way of working and my business still runs very systematically. And I\u2019ve always been that way, so they get an intake form, they schedule a call, then this happens, then this happens, and I just have a very specific process that I work with people through, and it\u2019s kind of always been that way and I think that them, even something as simple as like, if you\u2019re going to be late by a day, let people know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>Set expectations and then meet expectations, or exceed expectations. You know? I\u2019ve heard that a lot of people work with copywriters and they have an experience of like, sitting and waiting and wondering when something is going to show up, or like, you know&#8230; because the copywriter is over there doing the work, but for the client, they\u2019re like patiently or impatiently waiting for their copy to arrive, and kind of like wondering and not knowing when it\u2019s going to come or what it\u2019s going to be like.<\/p>\n<p>Even throughout the process of me writing stuff, I like to touch base and just be like, hey, I know it\u2019s coming this day, but here\u2019s what\u2019s going on, or here\u2019s what I\u2019m excited about, or I have a question for you. So you know, I just think that having those touch points that give that client that feeling of consistency and that they\u2019re being taken care of and the process is professional, all of that helps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>So I love all of that because systematizing what we do is challenging for a lot of copywriters, including myself. Could you share some of those other touch points, especially for new copywriters that may be doing it or not doing it? You mentioned intake forms, schedule a call; what are some of those other touch points and how are you managing that in your system? Through what type of project management system so that it does stay on track?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> When I\u2019m doing 1:1 work, a lot of it is just me managing it. So, I didn\u2019t actually set up a project management system for my business that we used consistently until I want to say a year and a half ago, when there were just more projects and more clients to manage at once.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, my answer to that question of touch points, is, it\u2019s every moment that your client is engaging with your brand and your business. Like, that\u2019s where you are developing a relationship with your client. So touch point one might be someone recommended you and then they might\u2019ve said like, oh well, hire this writer because they\u2019re insert three adjectives here, like whatever the brand stands for, that\u2019s probably how people are describing you to others when they\u2019re referring you. So assuming that that\u2019s how you actually are, then they go to your website and then your website speaks to all of those three adjectives or qualities that that person\u2019s describing you as so there\u2019s a touch point.<\/p>\n<p>Then they decide that they want to reach out and get in touch with you so they fill out a form on your website or use a contact thing or maybe they schedule a sales call with you directly on your website, all of the languaging and all of the experience as they\u2019re going through that process, whether it\u2019s scheduling or filling out a form, that\u2019s another touch point where you have an opportunity to make an impression.<\/p>\n<p>Then, depending on what that sales process is for you, you\u2019re going to get on the phone with them, the relationship you have with them then gets deeper as you\u2019re connecting with them. Is the way that you\u2019re talking with them on the phone the same way that your brand sounds? That\u2019s important for that to be consistent. So there\u2019s that touch point. And then there\u2019s like, if they decide to start working with you, the payment system. The project management system. I think there\u2019s about four or five different systems in business that you want to be setting up, so all of those are touch points. How are you invoicing? Are you invoicing on time? When can they expect it?<\/p>\n<p>And then, closing a project out. So there can be like the starting process, the onboarding and the off-boarding. Delivering your first draft is a step in the process. I\u2019m trying to walk through it chronologically in my head but I keep talking about it out of order right now. As I\u2019m saying it, I\u2019m like, there\u2019s all these touch points &#8211; but I\u2019ve been doing it for so long that I forget! I haven\u2019t mapped it out in a while. They contact you, they put a deposit down, they get their start stuff, then, maybe you get a welcome gift, they get a welcome packet, you set up your first call, you deliver a draft, you have a revisions process, whatever that is for your brand or business, you have a specific timeline that you work within, like it might be longer or shorter depending on how you work, and then there\u2019s either another call to go over notes or there\u2019s a revisions process, and there\u2019s a way that you manage getting feedback from your clients.<\/p>\n<p>Then you deliver the feedback, you kind of touch in again, and then delivery of final draft is a huge piece in the process too, like how are you closing the project out, what note are you leaving it on, what\u2019s the experience throughout the entire thing, then there\u2019s off-boarding, so delivering the drafts, final invoices, if that\u2019s how you invoice, sending a wrap-up gift if that\u2019s part of your process as well, or a handwritten note, and then follow ups. So like, then what happens? Do you give them tips on what they can do now that they\u2019ve gotten their copy? It really depends.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of this is also saving you time if there are questions that people tend to ask you every time you work with them, then you can answer all those questions in your welcome packet and your goodbye packet, and then they have everything they need and they\u2019re taken care of!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>That\u2019s really good stuff. And on top of that process, then, you layer in your brand, which is very personality driven and almost unique in some ways. You know, the email that you send out is very Jamie; it feels like you. Every communication that you have feels like you. Tell us a little bit about how you came about to develop your brand personality and how it shows up for your clients and in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong><em>(laughs)<\/em> How does my brand personality show up in the world? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>But you are very conscious about like, the things that you create and send out there, though, they\u2019re very reflective of who you are. And it\u2019s a very genuine feeling brand, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>I appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>And on social media, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> I appreciate that. <em>(laughs)<\/em> I\u2019m really just being myself. <em>(laughs)<\/em> I actually had a call with my like, tech and client care VA recently and she was like, I don\u2019t think that you\u2019re like, she said something about me not being happy with something or I don\u2019t remember what the conversation was but she said something like, I don\u2019t think with your personality you could ever hide anything you\u2019re feeling, ever&#8230; and it\u2019s true! Like, I am just very present in my like, whatever &#8211; I\u2019m very present in myself. I don\u2019t know how &#8211; this is a really weird answer. It just sounds really freakin\u2019 weird. I\u2019m just very honest, brutally honest, and if there\u2019s ever something that bothers me, or feels off to me, I am very aware of my feelings and I\u2019m very sensitive and I\u2019m hyper-sensitive to others and to be honest with you I think that it\u2019s a big reason why I\u2019m good at what I do.<\/p>\n<p>My sensitivity makes me actually an excellent copywriter and excellent screenwriter. Because I feel like my ability to truly feel my feelings, to be aware of what\u2019s going on with myself, and to be transparent about it, especially like in a present moment, helps me really understand like, the psychology and emotional buying behaviors of a customer, and you what? And like characters, which is how I would write for that, like with screenwriting. So, I don\u2019t even know how to answer this as like, a systematic process, other than I think people really\u2026 My advice is you know, however you can be empowered to be fully yourself in your business is only going to benefit you. Because again, it comes down to consistency. Like, as authentic as you can possibly be in your brand, in your brand voice, you know, the better. Because then you\u2019ve set this expectation of what the experience of working with you is going to be like.<\/p>\n<p>So for me, like, you know, I\u2019m funny. <em>(laughs)<\/em> I\u2019m an occasional comedian. Like, the projects that I work on, my screenwriting projects are funny\u2014I write comedy\u2014so for me to like, having a brand that didn\u2019t have jokes would just be weird. And for someone to show up and like, talk to me and then it wouldn\u2019t make sense if I had a really funny website and then someone came to speak to me and I was like the most boring person you\u2019ve ever met in your life. <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> It wouldn\u2019t make sense! But honestly, my process is like brutal honesty! It\u2019s a lot of like, how I write, it\u2019s where my comedy comes from; I will say also, that like, when you had asked before about how people were finding you, I also just write things as Facebook statuses and that\u2019s how a lot of friends came to me asking me for copy help. Or help with writing. It was because of the level of honesty that I would consistently use when just writing statuses on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>Interesting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s highly, I mean, from the posts I\u2019ve seen and I follow you on social media, not only are you active and showing up, which you said earlier is a big part of it &#8211; just showing up enthusiastic all along &#8211; and that\u2019s what\u2019s attracted people. But because you\u2019re highly sensitive and honest, I think you\u2019re sharing what we\u2019re all thinking but we\u2019re not saying. And I think that helps people want to lean in and want to work with you and I appreciate you saying that you\u2019re highly sensitive as well, because we\u2019re going to have Heather Dominick on the show (find that <a href=\"https:\/\/thecopywriterclub.com\/highly-sensitive-entrepreneur-heather-dominick\/\">here<\/a>) and she talks about being a highly sensitive entrepreneur, which I am as well, and we realized on the show that Rob is not highly sensitive. <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But I have a feeling a lot of writers are highly sensitive as well. But anyway, I wanted to pivot and ask you about your agency. And you know, it sounds like, I know from watching you from afar early on, you got a lot of traction, you had a ton of clients and if you go to your testimonials page, it\u2019s crazy! It\u2019s like never ending pages because you\u2019ve worked with everyone and have tremendous testimonials. So when did you realize like hey, this is going to turn into something bigger than just me? This is going to turn into a micro-agency. When did you see that path and what did you do to kind of set the wheels in motion?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Well, here\u2019s the thing. My agency started because I was booked out, like within the first two months of going full time, and I couldn\u2019t handle it. <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>Like that\u2019s how it started. I was like I have too much work! I need help! And Erin, who is also a crazy talented writer and has always been a crazy talented writer and I knew from the business program that I had taken and she was also kind of toying with coaching and writing and not really 100% sure what direction she wanted to go in at the time, but was so talented and was also like writing really clever, witty taglines for people, for fun, had, she just was like, I can help you! Like, I\u2019ll come aboard and I\u2019ll help you, like she had just had her second child so she didn\u2019t have a ton of bandwidth to kind of devote to her own business at the time, so she kind of preferred just coming aboard and you know, she just helped me with a lot of the pieces of the business. Meaning like, thinking through the vision of like, what I really wanted, and you know, at first, I was like I just need you to do a bad first draft of something so that I can come in and like revise it; I just can\u2019t generate everything from scratch myself right now, so at first like, that\u2019s what I was having her do. Then, it turned into her offering unique services through my business, like she\u2019d offer services I didn\u2019t want to offer.<\/p>\n<p>So things that I was going to retire anyway, she was like, I\u2019ll just take them over. I was like great! So if someone wants that, you can do it, and if they want something else, I\u2019ll do it! So it\u2019s really like our relationship is she came aboard, our working relationship and her role in the agency, and my role as well, like, it transformed a lot over the three years. So, initially it was just like, I kind of subcontracted some help to her with projects so that I could not write the first drafts of things and then it became a unique services thing and then it became, you know what, I sort of developed this vision over that time of you know, I\u2019ve always wanted to support other writers, and that\u2019s always been important to me and I started this kind of wanting to help other writers who were \u201cdoing time in Hollywood\u201d create other revenue streams and you know, kind of have that flexibility and freedom to do a little work over here for money and then kind of focus on what they really wanted to be focused on as far as like, their work in the world is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>So it kind of transitioned from I\u2019m going to coach them to no, I\u2019m going to staff them. And that\u2019s how that happened. And I was like, I have so many leads I can\u2019t handle, but I know so many writers in LA who are kind of just doing the writing thing and picking up jobs here and there and I\u2019m like, I can make this really simple and easy for them to kind of just have this cash flow stream if they want it; I will train them how to write copy for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>And I also knew that I would be able to communicate with them as far as how I made the leap from screenwriting to copywriting. Like, right, I have the storytelling background, so my approach is very specific to that and the way that I handle brand voice is like, okay, well, we have to look at them as a character. So if you were writing dialogue for a screenplay, that\u2019s what I want you to be identifying when you\u2019re figuring out someone\u2019s brand voice. So that conversation was really easy for me, training them, because that was how I translated and understood the bridge between screenwriting and copywriting.<\/p>\n<p>So that was kind of how that all started. <em>(laughs) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> You make it sound easy, you know, the work just came and the agency just grew and everything is happy, but there have got to be challenges with running an agency. Tell us the dark side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Okay. There\u2019re so many challenges &#8211; so many challenges! And the thing is, none of this was easy. Okay? Like, I think a lot of people decide that they want to start an agency or take on a junior writer because like, they think it\u2019ll make their life easier if they don\u2019t have to do all of the writing and that\u2019s just not true at all. That\u2019s absolutely not true at all.<\/p>\n<p>Like, it\u2019s more work. Because you have more clients, you have more writers, so in and of itself that\u2019s more communication, that\u2019s more management, you have to shift the role that you\u2019re playing in your business to be able to hold that. So what I\u2019ve said, and I\u2019ve said this to copywriters that I\u2019ve mentored too, who were considering starting agencies, I\u2019m like, if you don\u2019t have a big why, for why it\u2019s important to you to do this, then do not do it. Because if you\u2019re doing it because you think it\u2019s going to make your life easier, because you think you\u2019re going to make so much more money, you\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m not saying that it\u2019s impossible to do that, but I think if you don\u2019t have a bigger why driving you, then it\u2019s just not going to be rewarding at all. So for me, I really felt excited about providing work to these other writers. That had so much meaning for me and it played into this bigger why and vision with my business and the work that I felt I was doing in the world that felt important to me, which is still something I feel very passionately about. I feel very passionately about writers being compensated for their talent and their skills and it\u2019s like something that\u2019s very important to me.<\/p>\n<p>That drove me. That drove me to kind of build the business and think about the vision and that was what was important to me and why I did it. I think &#8211; I had moments of thinking like, well maybe this will be easier, and then it just wasn\u2019t, but I still had that burning purpose behind it. Does that make sense?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Yeah, and I love that idea of okay, know your why, and if this is really important to you, if it\u2019s not then just don\u2019t do it, but let\u2019s say somebody has their why, similar to you, and so they\u2019re still moving forward with it, what\u2019s the best way to move forward? Is it to bring on someone like Erin, just to kind of test the waters? See if you like even subcontracting before you expand?<\/p>\n<p>Jamie: Yeah, there are a few things that I would have someone do. First of all, there are like three inquiries that I would have someone ask themselves before they start. One is, why do you really want to do this? What do you really want to get out of it? And what do you really want to feel? What feeling are you going after that this is important to you? So it could be ease, it could be significance, it could be that they think they\u2019re going to make more money, so they want to feel more wealthy or abundant.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the actual reason for yourself why you want this? Right? The second thing is, what role do you really want to play? What job do you really want? I mean, a lot of us start our own businesses because we\u2019re creating the life we really want for ourselves, you know. For some people, copywriting is a freelance thing, it\u2019s a way to make extra money. It\u2019s just the job that they found, whatever. I think for a lot of us who are striking out on our own with our own businesses, like, we\u2019re doing it so that we have a life of choice and that we have flexibility, whether we want more time with our family or we want to be able to travel or we just don\u2019t want to work for anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of times, when we\u2019re building our own businesses, if we\u2019re bringing on a team and scaling, we have to ask the question of like, well, what job do I want in this company? And what job am I creating for myself? So they have to know, what tasks do they even like in their business and what tasks do they hate in their business and like, what role do they really want to play?<\/p>\n<p>And then the third thing is like, what is the vision? So actually, long term, where do you see this going? And how long are you willing to work at it to get there? Because it\u2019s not quick. It\u2019s a marathon. You know what I mean? To commit to building something into the vision that you want it to be. You know, what actually is that and how long do you think it\u2019ll take you to get there because there\u2019s just a lot of steps in the process to getting there. So I would say please ask yourself those three questions and give yourself clarity before you do anything.<\/p>\n<p>And then the obvious step &#8211; or the obvious step to me &#8211; the answer I always give is like, yes, absolutely, what you just said. Start with one. Bring on one team member. And experiment with what you want to give to them. And honestly, the first team member could be a VA. For a lot of writers, like, just hire an assistant to start, and then when you\u2019re ready for more, and you decide you want a junior copywriter, I would say, before you\u2019re thinking about building an agency, just experiment with what it\u2019s like to work with one person under you and to take on a couple extra clients, where you\u2019re managing someone else writing, and training them, and just see a) how you like it, and b) is it sustainable for you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>Okay, so I want to hear more about what this actually looked like for you behind the scenes. Here you are, adding people, you\u2019re training them, what did your role look like when you realized okay, these are the tasks I want to focus on, this is the role I want to play, what was that for you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>So at first for me, I was really excited about being the person who provided like, doing the calls with the clients, connecting with clients, pulling their story out of them, doing the strategy; I was very excited to be the person who was doing the strategy and not all of the writing. So I was excited to take sales calls, I was excited to be the face of the brand, I loved thinking about marketing, i loved creating new products and offers.<\/p>\n<p>I created a course within the first 6 months of my business because I was just excited to create things and teach! I was like yay, I have an idea, I want to do it! So I just loved doing that. I just loved that. I also loved working with writers, so a lot of my role was like, I will do the marketing for the business, I will take the sales calls&#8230; you know, when Erin first started taking on her own services, she would do her sales calls for her services and I would do my sales calls for my services. So we kind of operated autonomously within the business and she would still send things to me to supervise, and while that happened, when she kind of took over her own services and acted autonomously within the business, I brought on two other writers to start training them and experimenting with me doing strategy and them writing.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019d be sending them recordings of calls that I did with clients, and they would kind of draft it out and then I would come in and I would, you know, give them comments and I would explain why I would want things changed, so there\u2019s no way to develop content without developing the writer at the same time, so as I\u2019m working on content, I\u2019m just also doing the job of explaining to them why, like, change this to this but here\u2019s why. Do it this way and here\u2019s why. So you know, it\u2019s obviously that that is a more intensive process than just going in and fixing something yourself. It\u2019s different. So that\u2019s what I was doing and I was loving it because I love training and working with writers. I was working long hours-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>Yeah, let\u2019s talk about the dark side again. <em>(laughs)<\/em> What that really looked like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>The dark side of building an agency is, you have more mouths to feed, so you bring on people and you train them and you put in the work and energy of training them and you get excited and by the way, you\u2019re also training them on like, how you work, what your processes are, what your systems are, so you want to obviously hire people who are self-managing, who already have talent, who learn quick, all of that stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And so there were writers that like, worked out and writers that didn\u2019t. And sometimes, the writers that didn\u2019t would deliver drafts to you that were totally un-useable and then you\u2019d have to write everything yourself to fix it, because you still have to deliver quality product for the client, you know? So a lot of times, it\u2019s doing double the work or extra the work or three times the work; it\u2019s not as agile and efficient as doing it yourself, which is why I\u2019m like, you have to have a bigger why.<\/p>\n<p>When I actually talked about the scaling issue with agencies of, you know, you obviously- hiring is hard, and finding an amazing team is hard, and all of that stuff is hard and then you have the team and you\u2019re like okay great, now lead generation. Is everyone booked out all the time? Do we have enough projects to go around for all of the writers right now? So I think once I kind of got to the point where I had three to four writers, I was then stressed out about having enough work for them. <em>(laughs) <\/em>So it\u2019s that balance. And it\u2019s also like, the struggle with agencies is always, and it\u2019s been for me the experience of balancing the capacity with the leads. You know? Like okay, well now I have trained writers who can take all the projects, but now I can only book three of them instead of four, so I don\u2019t know what to do about that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> Listening to you talk about this, you keep saying things like, I \u201cloved\u201d doing strategy, like it\u2019s all in the past tense\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Right?!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> \u2026like maybe something has changed! <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> It\u2019s interesting. <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>Yeah. <em>(laughs)<\/em> I also like, I\u2019m really good at strategy, it\u2019s one of my top five strengths, like Strengths Finder strengths; strategy is a natural strength for me, but I actually don\u2019t enjoy it. So that\u2019s something that I\u2019ve discovered over the course of my business. I really don\u2019t love doing strategy even though I\u2019m good at it. So in the beginning I was doing strategy and then eventually, in year three, I was like okay, I\u2019m going to bring in another strategist so that they can have a meeting with the strategist on strategy and then the writer can write and like, I don\u2019t have to touch any of that.<\/p>\n<p>So then that was the next stage. All right, I don\u2019t like this anymore, I\u2019m going to get someone else to do this step. So I got someone else to do that step. It was just a lot of, I don\u2019t want to do this, I don\u2019t want to do this, I don\u2019t want to do this, and then rebuilding every time to kind of create more I want to say, agility and efficiency in the business so that I could step into the role of CEO, which I feel I\u2014that\u2019s basically what I\u2019ve been doing for the last 8 months, is like, all right! I have all of these other pieces tasked out and systematized and now I\u2019m like, fully in the CEO role&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> So you\u2019re making some changes to your business, I understand, because of a lot of this. You want to talk about that and how you\u2019re changing your business to fit what you really want?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> <em>(laughs) <\/em>Yeah, sure. So, I have made a decision to shut down my agency operations as of November 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2017, and it\u2019s been a hard decision, it\u2019s a scary decision, it\u2019s a sad decision; there\u2019s been a lot of grief around it for sure. But ultimately, the decision comes from the place of like, I\u2019m still not really actually able to be in my own genius zone, in a business where I\u2019m the CEO and the boss and looking at profit and loss and looking at expense reports and thinking about lead generation and marketing and bringing people in and everything that you do when you\u2019re running a business, like all of the departments.<\/p>\n<p>And in the beginning when I first ran my business, I remember feeling the overwhelm of like, oh my gosh, when you have your own business, you have to do all the departments. If I could offload some of the actual contracting work, then it would seem lighter, also, for me, but the reality is that I built a business where I\u2019ve created almost an ideal work environment for a lot of the people on my team because I supported them being in their genius zones, and I supported them doing what they were best at; I would look at what they were good at and then I would put them in the role, you know, I would restructure their role based on their talents and their skillset and I was doing that for everyone except myself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Wow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> So I came to the conclusion that I need to change things again and I need to kind of dismantle the agency to really give myself the freedom to restructure my business again, or potentially even step away from the concept of CEO altogether in order for me to feel good every day to do what makes me happy and to feel like I\u2019m actually doing my brilliance work and not the work that I\u2019m good at but don\u2019t actually love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Okay, wow. I have a lot of questions about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>And I also want to write more film and television stuff. I\u2019m like, I need to be pitching. And doing these things. And it\u2019s time. I\u2019ve taken enough time away from Hollywood, I need to go back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Yeah, I was going to ask you, what is your genius zone? And you have so many different strengths, like you said strategy; what is it for you where it actually aligns with what you enjoy? Is it the storytelling piece?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Yeah, for me it\u2019s writing, like, literally. Writing is my genius zone. So for me to be running a business where I write for a client twice a year is just, it\u2019s so &#8211; literally, I\u2019ll joke about it, like, this is the dumbest thing I ever did. I spent the last four years building a business where I\u2019m not doing the thing I\u2019m actually best at. Like, that\u2019s dumb.<\/p>\n<p>Writing is my absolute, like, I love it, it\u2019s my brilliance, all of that stuff. I also really love supporting writers and entrepreneurs with storytelling; with storytelling, with voice development, and with the creative process. Hilariously, it\u2019s like what I started doing four years ago!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>Right!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Coming back around a little!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> Maybe you could turn that into an agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>Or maybe not&#8230; yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> Maybe! <em>(laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So yeah, it\u2019s writing and it\u2019s honestly, it\u2019s ideas, like if I had to be honest with you about what my brilliance zone is, it really is getting ideas and knowing what concept for a campaign or like a product or something marketable, like what are people actually going to be excited about? It\u2019s actually tapping into like, what audiences want and what buyers want, right now. So I genuinely believe that that is like, my actual brilliance as far as like, the work that I do with clients and also with like, my film and TV writing, you know, and the writing piece and the storytelling piece around that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira:<\/strong> Yeah, that all makes sense as you\u2019re saying it. So when you decided to shut down, I know you\u2019re in the process of it now, what does that actually look like? How do you do that and what does your business look like as soon as you shut it down and this new version? Or are you still figuring that out?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie:<\/strong> So shutting down is like, a multi-step process, like everything else, systematic brain. Step one was having conversations with my team one on one, just setting up times and speaking to everyone and letting them know here\u2019s what I\u2019ve decided, and you know in a lot of cases I\u2019m just having my writers continue their working relationship with clients, you know, ending-terminating the contracts with my LLC and then letting them kind of restart their own contracts directly with clients so they can just kind of go right directly for the clients.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ve just been, you know, that step is just making sure that my clients and my writers are taken care of, so that\u2019s been what a lot of these 30 days have been, like, having those conversations, letting our retainer clients know, letting other you know, I\u2019m going to be sending a message just to our like, direct clients about this and letting them know that they\u2019re welcome to contact my writers directly if they want to, and I\u2019m going to be booking some projects for me to write on a limited basis as well, so that\u2019s definitely a step. And notifying my audience that I\u2019m doing this, and just like, telling people. It\u2019s a lot of the like, communication strategy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s communication strategy, really, like who do I need to tell, and in what order, for this to be &#8211; for no one to freak out, really. It\u2019s like I don\u2019t want anyone to freak out, so that\u2019s what that process has been like and we\u2019re putting up a one-pager for the website that should be live soonish&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That just basically like, \u201cLOL, JK, we\u2019re not an agency anymore\u201d and <em>(laughs)<\/em> you know you can hire my writers, you can hire me, you can download the whole story, because I will make it available not on the website, but you can get it in your email if you want it, and yeah. That\u2019s it. And what\u2019s next for me is I have a program story school that I launched in, September? 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So that\u2019s what Story School is.<em> (laughs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong><em>(laughs)<\/em> Rob was going to say something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob:<\/strong> I was just going to joke\u2014my breath must be really bad\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kira: <\/strong>We couldn\u2019t hear you breathing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rob: <\/strong>I was going to say you know, even if you\u2019re not interested in buying the course, you should at least get on the list so that you can read Jamie\u2019s emails about the course because I think they\u2019re fantastic. They\u2019re some of the best launch sequence emails that I\u2019ve read in a long time; definitely worth checking out for the story she tells, and just for the way that they\u2019re written. They\u2019re really good. Yes. 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So Jamie, thank you for hanging out with us and sharing, and being honest, and sharing your update and sharing your experience, especially within the agency world. We really appreciate it and of course, want to have you back to share all the updates as you make this pivot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamie: <\/strong>Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I had so much fun! Yay!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 62nd episode of\u00a0The Copywriter Club Podcast, Kira and Rob brought former screenwriter, movie producer and copywriter Jamie Jensen into the studio to talk all about her copy business. 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