Content & Strategy

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Use Your Story to Attract, Engage & Sell

Who is the real person behind the entrepreneur, the professional, the expert that you are?When you talk about how you came to be where you are today, you open the door to connect on an emotional level. When you share how you overcame obstacles,…
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The Magic Formula For Writing World Class Copy. Read This If You’re Selling Products Or Services.

Empathy + Humour + Suggestion x Value = Success. That’s the secret magic formula to world class copywriting and all you need to know about the importance of copywriting. Using this formula can lead to 20-25% more likeability, 60-75% more…
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Why Long Form Content Is Now King.

UPDATE: EIGHT MONTHS after I published this blog, Google has finally launched an algorithm to reward Long Form Content with higher rankings – this algorithm was rolled out approx. Aug 3rd 2015. The upshot is that Google now scans short content…
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Copywriting – 5 Reasons You Should Invest

Copywriting is more than writing, it’s an essential element of any form of marketing, both online and offline. It’s also an art, crafted well, a stellar piece of copywriting can can make or break your new product launch, service offering,…
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Effective Copywriting Tips for the Small Business and Entrepreneur

So you're already running a small, independent business. Or you're kicking off a thrilling new entrepreneurial venture.Sticking it to the man. Telling your old bosses to get stuffed. Standing on a rooftop with arms outstretched screaming…
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Framing Emotive Storytelling in Copywriting for Charities… And Why Guilt Can Be a Bad Idea

Copywriting in the direct response arena, for charities, can be a pretty tough endeavour - one that relies especially heavily on obtaining emotional response from readers. People are protective of their hard-earned cash, and when you can't exactly…
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How to Write a Rocking Professional Bio

Most of us have one. We certainly all need one. They come in all shapes and sizes, and it’s one of the hottest professional pieces of writing you’ll ever do - bingo! Yes, it’s those 3 little letters thrown together known as your bio!In…
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Use Words Your Customers Will Love

It's interesting the difference a few words can actually make! They can charm, inspire, motivate, and persuade or equally discourage, dismiss, and dissuade. One thing’s for sure - whatever we do, regardless of our line of work, the words we…
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Concise Writing Tips: Say More With Fewer Words.

I'm sure you’ve heard this before. Keeping your writing concise and to-the-point is the way forward - the key to becoming a stronger writer. You and your audience want the same thing; you want to write less, and they want to read less. We…
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On Writers, Copywriting and How to Build a Portfolio

The utter audacity to call yourself a writer! Now that takes cojones. Writers are born with an acute sensitivity to the human condition (in this way, they are “chosen”) and then they are self-made through reading, studying and, well, writing…
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7 ways copywriting can influence people

I draw upon my professional experience to advise the current BA students I’m lecturing, but I decided to switch places recently and become a student for the day myself in order to brush up on writing skills. I attended a refresher course in…
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Beyond The Content Tipping Point

It is said that the greatest barrier to change is a closed mind. This is very true in content marketing, although the greatest obstacle to progress in this most fashionable of marketing disciplines is not intolerance or stubbornness, but inherent…