I Went from Broke Engineer Struggling to Make 10,000 Rupees a Month To the Most Highly Rated Pakistani Copywriter On Fiverr (and probably overall) Making 7-Figures A Month Writing Copy…
It was probably 3 pm on yet another boring Monday…
I was called by the accounts branch to receive my pay…
What I saw happen to me there totally made me rethink the choices I had been making…
“Shahzad Khan! This is your pay.”
The accounts guy handed me two 5k bills stapled together with a chit that read…
“SHAHZAD KHAN RS. 10,000/-”
I went to my “rented” studio flat (1 room) in Lahore (I was living with my friends).
Gave them 5k as rent (they were courteous as I was paying less)
And the remaining 5k lasted for the next 2-3 days…
I was broke…
Had no money, had no life since I was working for them almost 16 hours a day…
And not to mention the depression of being worth 10k a month…
Talking about depression in those days takes me places…
I was a good boy who only secured A+ grades my entire life…
But things weren’t working out for me…
I felt like a failure as I had already failed a business before joining this 10k a month job.
And that wasn’t the only thing I had been carrying…
I had to fight a deadly ailment when I was only 24…
Allah helped me through it so much that the entire panel of doctors was astonished to see my recovery…
(I don’t like to talk about it and that’s why most of the people who know me don’t know about it)
All of that combined took a toll on me…
But, I didn’t stop…
THERE WAS THIS FIRE INSIDE OF ME THAT KEPT TELLING ME THAT I’M WORTH MUCH MORE THAN THIS…
That is when I decided to start all over again…
I quit my job — a month before Ramadan of 2017 and started finding ways to get back up on my own two feet…
It wasn’t easy…
The next year was tough….
Then it hit me…
I revived my old Upwork account (I used to write in 2013-14) and started copywriting for a living…
Fast forward to 2021…
I’ve 2500 copywriting projects under my belt, a sweet bank account, a family of loving copywriters, and everything I could have ever dreamt of…
And it didn’t end there.
I’ve had the privilege of working with copywriters who have sold $800 million worth of stuff by leveraging their copy skills. Their guidance and appreciation helped me move ahead in my career and I’m now helping Pakistan understand the true meaning of copywriting.
My sales copy has converted 9%, my e-mails have had an open rate of up to 70%, and I have helped generate over $7million in sales for different copy clients.
(The only Pakistani client I worked with generated £217,000 in sales after I revamped their copy).
If you’re reading this…
I want you to know that copywriting is the next big thing.
I want you to know that there’s light at the end of the tunnel and you just have to keep going.
Allah will help you…
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