Copywriting Skills

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The magic phrase that lets you say no to copywriting clients (without burning your reputation forever)

It’s a well-known marketing mantra: Only work with your ideal clients. The flip side of this is to say to no to clients who aren’t right for you and your business. As a seasoned copywriter, I’ve got a checklist of warning signs that…
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Holy C!

No, I’m not referring to Christmas. IT’S ONLY MOVEMBER. Crumbs. I am in fact about to reveal how the letter C is both a curse and a cure for creative copywriters. So, you want creative copywriting? An ever-growing number of curious…
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The search is on

From feeding belching Pac-Man to removing your head from a panda’s bamboo shoot, the art of SEO copywriting is far from conventional – it’s creative. With so many marketeers spouting about SEO, who could blame you for huffing, “Here…
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Copywriting for Hotels: How the Right Focus and Style Can Win New Customers

Thumb through most hotel advertisements and you’ll see attractive photos of beds, polished sinks and beautiful swimming pools under starlight. These are good for grabbing readers’ attention, but in the end, the text will really make the…
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5 Writing Tips Inspired by Hemingway

A few summers ago my daughter read A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway’s World War I novel. She liked it for the most part, which I consider a compliment to the old master since he has to compete with J.K. Rowling and other modern authors…
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Scannable and Objective: Marketese or Sex on a Page?

“A copywriting style that embellishes the effects or benefits of a product or service in an attempt to make it more attractive to the target audience. Frequently uses superlatives and adjectives.” I don’t know if I could recommend SiteTurners,…
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How to Deliver the Perfect Pitch

Whether you’re pitching for investment or selling to a customer, having your pitch tightly refined and perfected is crucial. Pitching can be intimidating at first, but by following these few simple principles, you can become a seasoned pro…
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Inside the blog content ideas funnel

Have you ever wondered why people who make magazines, newspapers and big, content-rich websites never seem to run out of ideas? The truth is, there is a process for generating blog content ideas, and it frequently involves staring into space. Not…
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The five secrets to emotional content

In the dark corner of the room, I heard my oldest writing mentor cough. He walked from the shadows into a dusty beam of sunlight at the end of the table. “This is it,” his voice rasped as he sat down. “This… this… is the secret of…
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Is Content Writing About Copywriting or Journalism?

We’ve hit crunch time in the content writing world. Two different species of writer have started inhabiting the same territory. Journalists left the old mountains of media empires to feed on the plains of marketing. Copywriters looked…
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Telltale Signs You’re Much Smarter Than Average

Intelligence, or IQ, isn’t what you know, but rather the pace at which you acquire new information. Longitudinal studies have shown that IQ is fixed at an early age, so you’re stuck with what you’ve got. While IQ is far from being the…
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Stop Selling. Start Sharing. It’s what social media is all about.

If you think social media is about selling, think again. If you think social media is about selling, think again. Advertising is about selling. Social media is about sharing: sharing your expertise by positioning yourself or your business as…