The SEO Career Accelerator: A Writer Interview Course (and More)
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Most writers struggle when preparing for a writer interview. After all, live interactions are not usually within our scope (or our introverted personalities).
Ambitious Writer Society’s writer interview training teaches you how to have more confidence and how to better conduct yourself on a live call so you can land more work more often.
To learn more about the SEO Career Accelerator Course, sign up for our free training video.
Most courses will teach you how to do a specific skill – like how to write for SEO, for example. However…
What many courses fail to teach you is how to land jobs and make money doing that skill. You may be a great writer, but what if you constantly drop the ball during live calls or never get picked?
Our writer interview course is specifically designed to help you find success in the next step of your career: excelling at interviews and landing competitive jobs.
In this post, we’ll talk about what is included in writer interview training, what you’ll learn and how those skills will greatly improve your chances of nailing interviews.
You can also get a deep dive about our program in this video, entitled: How to Successfully Secure Steady, High-Paying Writing Clients – without the Cheap "Newbie" Rates, Mind-Numbing Projects or Working Full-Time
About Our Writer Interview Course
We go well beyond covering basic interview tips for writers.
The SEO Career Accelerator by Ambitious Writer Society is dedicated entirely to helping you find clients and land gigs. This mega course is embedded in our Complete SEO Writer Roadmap program, and makes up about 40% of its 200+ lessons.
To learn more about our program as a whole, watch our free writer’s training video.
What Is Covered in the SEO Career Accelerator?
In most cases, writers land work via writer job interviews or discovery calls with potential clients.
The purpose of the SEO Career Accelerator is to give you the tools, motivation and support you need to find clients and actually grow your career.
However – while you may be a great writer – most writers lack proper interview skills to get picked for the job.
The ugly truth? The main factor in landing work is how you come across to people, which has nothing to do with your writing skills!
Our career launcher and writer interview course also teaches you how to attract clients automatically – and how to monetize that traffic, particularly using your own website – even if you never work with the traffic yourself!
Course Focus #1: How to Find Writing Clients and Land Interviews
A huge portion of our writer training program is about growing your writing career or business.
At the Ambitious Writer Society, we want to train skilled writers who also have the tools to build their own success – which includes knowing how to find clients and land more work more often.
Built into our writer interview course are 14-day challenges, tips and step-by-step frameworks about where to look for clients, how to vet the best jobs and where to find low competition work.
In fact, we talk extensively about where to find low competition work (that you love) in our free training video, so sign up to watch if you’re interested.
Course Focus #2: How to Overcome Your Fears During Interviews
We simply can't ignore the emotional aspects of growing our freelance writing careers and getting on high-pressure calls (e.g., interviews, discovery calls). We’re human!
Many new and experienced writers deal with various emotions and worries, including:
Anxiety about the stability of a writing career
Dread about all the unpaid work that is required at the outset
Apprehensions about growing your income (or replacing your 9-5 income)
Nerves before and during live calls and interviews
Fear of the unknown when it comes to what writer interview questions will be asked
Freezing up when you don’t have a good answer during live interviews
Upset when yet another writer interview or job doesn’t pan out
Enveloped within our writer interview course is an empowering 4-part training to help you overcome resistance and imposter syndrome – both of which are huge reasons why many writers quit too soon.
This part of the course deals with the emotional aspects of interviewing and landing work.
You'll learn how to work through the overwhelming discomfort and how to avoid self-sabotaging your ability to get the jobs you want.
Course Focus #3: Live Interaction and Interview Tips for Writing Jobs
Our writer interview course teaches you the key interpersonal “performance” skills that make you sound more professional, more confident and more experienced than you actually are.
But let’s be clear: We’re not teaching you how to deceive people.
You’re still you – but you’re the best outward version of yourself who promotes instant warmth, intrigue and commands a conversation in order to land the gigs and rates that you want.
Most writers get nervous about live calls, and this anxiety can show up in various behaviors that give you away: fast talking, stumbling your words, seeming closed off and more.
All of these things make your interview even worse, and they can be yellow or red flags to potential clients and interviewers.
Plus, if you sound like a nervous wreck or inexperienced, your interviewer will notice and will be very skeptical about hiring you.
Yes – as a writer – it is crazy that you are judged on how well you “sell yourself” on a discovery call or interview. But those who land the job come across as more personable, more confident and more memorable.
We wish we could tell you that you will be judged solely on the quality of your writing – but that is simply not the case. Yes, your writing samples play a huge role in someone hiring you, but if you mess up in your discovery calls or interviews, it will cost you jobs.
Subtopics Taught in the Writer Interview Course
How to be more confident *Or at least, seem more confident during a live discovery call or interview.
How to take control of the conversation *Without being cocky.
What tone and conversational cadence to use *To sound more experienced and calm.
How to automatically “turn on” the performance version of you *Even if you’re an introvert.
This course is especially helpful if you tend to “drop the ball” during interviews… and it’s usually the main reason why you don’t land the job.
Course Focus #4: How to Market Yourself (During Interviews and as a Whole)
Another component of our training talks about how to market yourself in various ways. Yes, we absolutely cover what to say and when to say it during live calls and interviews, but you’ll also get other frameworks about where to start marketing your new writing business.
We prioritize low-effort, high-impact marketing, which is perfect for busy writers who don’t have the budget to spend thousands of dollars on ads and networking events.
One of the lessons our students love most is about the “lazy” ways to promote yourself. That is, parts of your ecosystem that have high visibility, and once you set them up, they continue working for you 24/7.
Course Focus #5: How to Get More Work Using Your Writer’s Portfolio
The SEO Career Accelerator writer interview course also dives deep into website optimization.
While it is not something that you will directly be referring to in a live interview (although, sometimes this does occur), maximizing your writer’s portfolio ensures you can attract clients automatically, even when you’re not working.
Plus, optimizing your website will also help you get more interested clients and potential job offers.
What Sets the SEO Career Accelerator Apart from Other Writer Interview Courses
As part of the Complete SEO Writer Roadmap program, the SEO Career Accelerator goes beyond where many courses fall short.
Many courses teach you how to perform a skill, but they fail to teach you how to land jobs doing that skill.
Our writer interview course teaches you exactly what to say, how to justify the rates you want, and how to say it so you can predictably close deals with clients.
How Does Ambitious Writer Society’s SEO Career Accelerator Course Stack Up?
Students love this course because it helps you bridge the gap between sending out pitches and proposals, or getting on discovery calls, and actually landing these prospects as clients.
What Previous Students Say About Our Writer Program
Why We Offer the Most Intensive Writer Interview Course and Job-Landing Training
As a community of professional writers, we understand that mastering the craft – learning SEO writing, copywriting, editing, etc. – is often the more “straightforward” part of building a successful career. You can find countless online resources to hone those skills.
But where many writers encounter career-crushing challenges is in the job-landing process: pitching, crafting compelling proposals, navigating discovery calls and excelling in high-pressure interviews.
We've seen firsthand how disheartening it can be to invest significant time and energy preparing for an interview, only to face rejection. This experience can be profoundly discouraging, leading many talented writers to prematurely abandon their career aspirations.
Recognizing this widespread struggle, we knew our program had to address it head-on.
What sets our approach apart is our unique instructor perspective. Beyond being a seasoned professional writer, our course leader brings over 15 years of experience as a professional international performer.
Our training teaches you exactly how to present yourself with confidence, poise and professionalism – qualities that are absolutely critical in today's competitive, over-saturated job market.
While the idea of "performing" in an interview might initially feel daunting or disingenuous to you, it's these refined interpersonal skills that truly make the difference.
They enable you to project the assurance and expertise that hiring managers seek, helping you stand out from the crowd and ultimately land the job.
We give you the tools and strategies necessary to not only excel in your writing, but also to confidently navigate the entire job-seeking journey.
Get Started with Our Free Writer Training Video
The best way to learn more about the SEO Career Accelerator course is to sign up for our free training video.
We discuss the entire program in depth, but you’ll also learn how to find well-paid writing jobs – WITHOUT committing to cheap rates, boring projects and burnout.
Who Is the Instructor for the Writer Interview Course?
Not only is she a professional writer, but course instructor Amanda Kostro Miller has over 15 years of experience in professional promotion, performance and live interactions with clients.
Amanda Kostro Miller has performed all over the US and internationally as a technically trained dancer and promotional brand ambassador.
On a personal level, she would much rather listen to people talk than be the one talking. “I always sort of panic inside when I have to converse with someone I don’t know well,” she admits.
However – professionally – Amanda learned how to be a networking expert and “life-of-the-party” type of person, mostly because she was getting paid to do so.
Throughout her years as a professional performer, she interacted face-to-face with thousands of people from around the world: kids, elders, billionaire CEOs, corporate clients, blue-collar America, foreigners and everyone in between.
Part of her job was to establish instant rapport with people, take the lead in a conversation and sound both educated and intriguing while doing it.
As she moved up the ranks in performance and promotion, Amanda has trained countless others in the art of self-promotion, live client interactions and performance. She has even emceed thousands of shows, despite having no singing or emceeing background whatsoever.
What’s her real secret? Amanda explains, “It was almost like I could flip a switch and become this other person without issue. I began to call it ‘Putting My Honey Bear On.’ And whenever I need a jolt of confidence in any aspect of my life, I put my Honey Bear on, and I’m pretty fearless.”
