The Business of Writing Podcast
The Business of Writing Podcast is where the best creative minds of our time share how they’ve built thriving businesses around their writing skills. It’s time to kill the myth that writing doesn’t pay—on this show you’ll learn how to make words work for you.
We’ll be going deep into the art and science of great writing, the business acumen you need to make your business thrive, and writers of all kinds will share hard-earned insights you won’t get anywhere else.
So if you want to master the business of writing, subscribe so you never miss an episode
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
BOW 100: Rachel and Laura: So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
After 100 amazing episodes, we are stepping away from The Business of Writing Podcast to focus on exciting new ventures and partnerships.
In the final episode of this first cha…
BOW 099: Adam Hunt: Comedic Conversion Writing
Adam Hunt is a TV Producer turned Copywriter who specializes in comedic copywriting. He says there’s an art to writing jokes that work for brands – and a science that makes sure t…
BOW 098: Laura Valenti: Project Management Mindset
So many of our listeners want to market themselves and build great platforms, we want to highlight the kind of person who can really make it happen. So today we are interviewing L…
BOW 097: Finka Jerkovic: How To Love Your Business, Clients, and Offers
Finka Jerkovic is an author, international speaker, and coach. She consults with clients on their personal branding, leadership, sales, client experience and employee engagement.
…
BOW 096: Angie Colee: Permission To Kick Ass
Angie Colee is a heavily-tattooed rocker turned copywriter and entrepreneurial coach. She was one of our very first guests here on the show, and since then she’s made some incredi…
BOW 095: Mayank and Prerna Malik: Scaling Your Biz While Working Less
Mayank and Prerna Malik are the founders of Content Bistro where they serve up wallet-wooing conversion copywriting services for creatives and seasoned-for-growth consulting for s…
BOW 094: Rachel and Laura: Building A Business That Lasts
Many industries today - especially online marketing - are so transient and based on “trends.” One thing we want to do here on this show is make sure we’re sharing lessons and insigh…
BOW 093: Ilise Benun: The Writer’s Money Mindset
Ilise Benun helps creative professionals bust through mental money blocks, to find better projects with bigger budgets. She’s a national speaker and author of 7 books, including "…
BOW 092: Jacqueline Burns: Publishing Books That Sell Millions
Jacqueline Burns was commissioning editor at Random House and Editorial Director at HarperCollins. There she edited classics such as Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus, Who M…
BOW 091: Licia Morelli: How To Get Bad-ass Testimonials and Referrals
Every once in a while we have an interview that is so packed with value and actionable advice, that it could be a whole masterclass on it’s own!
Our guest today really pulled ou…
BOW 090: Sharon Hurley: Shifting Focus In Your Writing Career
Sharon Hurley Hall is an anti-racism writer, a professional B2B writer and blogger, and co-host of The Introvert Sisters podcast. She holds Masters degrees in both media and educa…
BOW 089: Rachel and Laura: Getting Your Head Straight When Everything Seems Crooked
By now we’ve all discovered that things did not magically go back to normal after the year ticked over into 2021. Surprise! (not). For many writers, working from home, where famil…
BOW 088: Athena Dixon: Getting Your Poetry and Prose Published
Athena Dixon is a poet, essayist, and editor. She is the author of The Incredible Shrinking Woman and No God in This Room. Her work also appears in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Bla…
BOW 087: Rebecca Otis Leder: Cold Outreach Done Right
Rebecca Otis Leder founded an award-winning blog, TheRebeccammendations® in 2009, as well as a marketing consulting company for small businesses, startups, and nonprofits.
Rebe…
BOW 086: Mike Abramov: A Holistic Approach To Copywriting
Mike Abramov is a direct response copywriter and consultant based in Los Angeles, California.
He's written for industry titans like Agora, PaleoHacks, The Dig Agency, NativePat…
BOW 085: Rachel and Laura: How To Prepare Yourself And Your Business For 2021
Sooo, obviously 2020 happened. And it was a doozy. This past year has been transformative for everyone, and not a single person or business came out the same way they went in.
…
BOW 084: Bonnie Caton: Writing Your Way Around The World
Bonnie Caton is an in-house copywriter at AWAI — The American Writers and Artists Institute – where she helps AWAI provide copywriting training for over 250,000 writers.
Before …
BOW 083: Rosie Moore and Dr. Alexis Shields: The Healthy Writer
We’re tackling something a bit different in this episode, and that’s how all us writers can take good care of our health. Writing is a sedentary, solitary job, and the better heal…
BOW 082: Eric Maisel: Mastering Creative Anxiety
Eric Maisel is a creativity coach and the author of 50+ books, including A Writer's Space, Coaching the Artist Within, and Mastering Creative Anxiety.
He leads deep writing wor…
BOW 081: Rachel and Laura: The Head Trash of Selling Yourself
There’s a lot of head trash that pops up around pricing your services and selling your own services. Even if you’re great at selling your clients’ offers, freelancers and creative…