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These Pitches Earned Me $1000s Of Dollars
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I have written a lot of pitch emails over the years. Maybe thousands!
For years, I wrote pitch emails and got little to no response or work from them. But somewhere along the way I started to understand why, and how to write a better pitch email.
Today, I’m going to break down for you what I learned.
For anyone who isn’t sure, I’m talking about writing emails to editors, pitching them stories I would like to write for their publications that they will pay me for, but I’ve written all types of pitch emails over the years to people who I want to do business with and potential clients.
With a little tweaking, these suggestions can be tailored to pitch whoever you want to pitch whatever you want to pitch them.
When I was a new writer starting out, I would make a lot of common mistakes in my pitch emails, and some also probably not as common.
I would send people emails with no information, I would not ask for or make it clear what I was contacting them about, I would be timid, I would not be willing to state my strengths or showcase my value.
It wasn’t that I even didn’t necessarily want to do those things, it was that I didn’t know that I should do them or how to do them.