I am not going to lie in your face and tell you I liked being rejected to write a guest post for Copyblogger. It’s not a nice feeling. If your hopes were up quite high and you dreamt of getting published on Copyblogger, I suspect it to be even harder. Yes I wanted to be published on Copyblogger. Yes I still dream about being published on Copyblogger. And yes, I won’t give up until I have been published on Copyblogger.

This was my optimistic pitch:

“Hi Brian/Sonia...

I just read your update line at the top of your guest posting guidelines page. I understand that your content calendar is full and that you may not be accepting guest posts at present, but I thought I'd give it a shot nevertheless. The worst that can happen is that you turn me down.

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I woke up this morning with excitement in me that is hard to describe. It’s the kind of excitement a small child gets when it’s time to open those Christmas gifts. That kind of excitement you get when you’ve been looking forward to something for quite some time and now that time has finally arrived.

I remember laying in bed and thinking by myself that today I must make things count as huge things are about to happen; I realized I needed to get ready.

The last update I did to my journey of becoming and living the life of a successful freelance blogger, I mentioned that after everything had been successfully set up here on the site, it’s finally time to get out there and land that very first paid freelance blogging gig. I outlined briefly the strategy I was going to follow: I mentioned that I have been given the advice of looking for decent writing gigs over at the Problogger.net Job Board and that’s exactly what I was planning to follow.

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If you are here then it means you have read a little around on the site, scrolled through my professional writing services that I provide, maybe even have read a post or two I've written on other websites or you may even have signed up to my newsletter so you can follow me along on my journey of becoming a successful freelance blogger.

Whatever it is that you have been doing thus far on Freelance.Blogging.Life. the point is if you are reading this, then I am pretty convinced that you at least have a slight interest in following me on my journey of becoming a successful freelance blogger. You might even have an interest in becoming a successful freelance blogger yourself; I don't know at this stage but I would absolutely LOVE it if that's the case, so if you are, please let me know so I know that you are on my team, okay?

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