📱 Best Platforms
Google Maps (find businesses with outdated or missing websites and pitch in person or via email), Upwork (clients actively posting website copywriting jobs), Bark.com (UK/US lead generation for local copywriting services).
📖 The Hustle
Local restaurants, contractors, and auto shops have websites from 2014 with three sentences on the homepage. You interview the owner for 30 minutes, then write a 5-page site: Home, About, Services, Contact, and one specialty page. Charge $300-800 flat per site because good copy brings them real phone calls.
🚀 First Step
Google 'restaurant near me,' find one with a weak website, and rewrite their homepage for practice.
🔑 Keys to Success
- Drive around your town and note businesses with empty or broken websites — these are warm leads who clearly need help.
- Take before-and-after screenshots of pages you rewrite so prospects can instantly see the transformation value.
- Charge flat project fees ($400-800 per 5-page site) instead of hourly — small biz owners prefer knowing the total upfront.
🛠 Tools & Resources: Google Docs, Google Maps, Squarespace, Grammarly, Hemingway App