Stefan Georgi, who has grossed $900 million as a direct response copywriter, says the biggest mistake is staying with vampire clients instead of replacing them with better ones. Ditching bad clients dramatically increases earnings and progress.
Bores in a row here. If you were to go back in time, what's the biggest mistake you would avoid at all costs to speed up your progress towards success? Sorry, Simone. What's the biggest mistake you'd avoid all costs for your progress towards success? I mean, success is broad, so it depends. We're talking about success as a copywriter. I mean, honestly, it's really like, I kind of say, don't waste time on bad clients, because for every bad client, there's five good clients. So I wouldn't. If a client sucks and they're a drain, and they're like a vampire client, and they're, you know, a hassle and a headache, and I'm doing all this stuff for them for free, and they're never happy, but I'm so worried of, oh, God, what if I lose them? It's like, sure, keep doing that, but actively work on replacing them. And then once you have a replacement, don't be like, well, but now I could make double the money. But I hate working for this person because, like, if you get rid of that client and fire them, then you might make like 4 or 5, 10x what you're making before. So don't fall into a trap of working with vampire clients, especially once you can avoid it.
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