I just made $520 in 3 hours as a copywriter

Here’s a little day in my life as a six-figure copywriter:

(What I did today — including how I made $520 in 3 hours writing copy)

6:55 am: I wake up

Well, my 4-year-old actually woke me up.

She was trying to crack eggs into a cup and mix them up for fun.

(I thought it was a woodpecker chipping away at our log home again.)

Anyways, 7 am, I’m up.

7:00 am: Cleaned up the eggs all over my kitchen floor

Made some good ole French press coffee.

Bible time. Proverbs is my favorite pairing with my morning cup.

7:20 am: Shower

And then I strolled on over to hit up my treehouse cabin office.

Opened up my laptop.

And set it up on my makeshift standup desk (I put a chair on top of my desk)

I’m working through some nasty sciatica from a disc issue (I sneezed a few weeks ago and a disc popped out or something haha - guess that means I have to accept that I’m almost middle aged now at 32).

My laptop is on. Old faithful 2017 Macbook Air.

First thing on the menu:

7:30 am: Socials

I repost a social post on Twitter, Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

7:32 am: Copy feedback

Gave a copy critique to one of my 1:1 coaching students for July.

He did his first welcome email for practice. Did a pretty solid job on email #1 (he’s been a UX writer for awhile already and diving into direct-response copy now).

8:00 am: Slurped back some more coffee

That sweet bean juice hits differently after completing a work task. Heaven.

8:30 am: I normally eat breakfast, but…

Roughly 2 hours after I wake but I’m skipping breakfast lately and on a 1,650 calorie budget to help me hit my weight loss goal: Lose 40 pounds by Jan 1, 2026. I lost 10 pounds then fell back into old habits when I flew back from Thailand to Canada. Going hardcore this time.

8:35 am: I start writing some fasted copy

Just coffee and water and a little bit of sunshine pouring in my office window (sorry Alex Hormozi, I write with windows open, not blacked out).

The copy is for a software company valued at around $200 million. I’ve been writing case studies, blog posts, and lead magnets for them for about 3 years. (Feel free to guess which company it is).

But today’s project is a bit different. The main style of copy I write for them is long-form case studies about their customers (blog post format).

But this one was basically a case study about my own success with their platform since I’ve also been a user for 1.5 years. Instead of a “Here’s how to x, y, z” it was more of a “Here’s how I x, y, z with and what I learned” post.

So, I cranked out a 3,900 word piece while buzzing to some 2010s house music (the greatest EDM era of all time).

12:05 pm: Made $520

3.5 hours later.

Done the piece.

Now for another post on socials. The lack of food in my belly is starting to get to me.

Finally, time for lunch with my two girls (2 and 4 years old)… and my beautiful wife.

1:00 pm: Power nap time

I always have a power nap after lunch. The siesta life is the only life I want to live.

3:00 pm: Time to “head to town”

Me, my wife, and our two girls head out from the woods and into the city. I go to Starbucks to work for an hour while my wife drops the girls off at Grammy’s.

3:57 pm: Here with you

Here I am with you, writing this email from Starbucks. I’ve got my tall iced coffee and iced water. And next up I’ll be going on a date downtown with my wife.

Life is good.

$500 made in a few hours this morning.

Fueled with coffee.

And ready to enjoy the 80 F degree early summer weather here in the “California of Canada.”

Just remember, this is possible.

I don’t share my day because I want to brag or that I love talking about myself.

This is just the kind of stuff I held onto and consumed nonstop when I was on the journey up — hearing other people’s stories.

Seeing how other copywriters lived. What they did. How they did it.

And believing it was possible to stay on the path.

-Brandon

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