Copywriting Skills

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Copywriting & The Language Of Friendships

"The language of friendships is not words but meanings" (Thoreau) If you're launching a product or service think about the terminology and copy that you're using in your marketing. Words have meanings and there are cultural meanings associated…
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Content Marketing: The 40-25-35 Formula for Effective Writing

Even though there are big rewards from content marketing for new business, it is also a huge challenge. Content marketing is proving to be beneficial for gaining a positioning of expertise and thought leadership. It also is the magnet for generating…
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How I Reintroduced Creative Alchemy Into My Life Again

In October, I had the opportunity to attend two events that gave me a fresh perspective on my business. One was a writing retreat that only had twelve other writers attending. The other was a larger copywriting conference that had around 400…
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What My Italian Family Taught Me About Food, Marketing and Copywriting

I blame my fascination with food and food metaphors on my upbringing. Growing up with a full-blooded Italian mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother (who came from Italy as a young girl “on a boat”), my fixation on food was inevitable. Food…
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Writing Content for the Web – Basics

When I’ve coached customers on building their own content for websites or blogs, there is a very straight forward approach I take. It works with beginner writers who are just trying for the first time, or experienced product experts who are…
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How I Write: My Copywriting Process

Whether I’m writing a campaign for Art.com’s homepage or brainstorming a creative name for one of my partner’s sushi dinner parties, I always take the same steps. Let’s take this email copy (below) for example. The Goals Write…
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The 5-Step Process of Creating Synergy Between Content Marketing and Social Media Marketing

You have the content. You have the social media profiles set up. But somehow, nothing seems to work. You run in a circle of publishing and posting without avail. Your social media marketing isn’t driving you business, and neither is your content.…
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Advertising Taught by Guinness

Advertising taught by Guinness: If you’ve ever spent time in Dublin, chances are you’ve been to the Guinness Storehouse. According to the fast-talking cab driver who whisked us from one side of the city to the other, the Guinness Storehouse…
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3 Reasons to Stop Stealing Other People’s Words

The other day I was on the phone with an entrepreneur who KNEW HER STUFF! She is an expert at working with her hands and heavy machinery to create all sorts of interesting products. The extent of my handiwork? Typing 100 words per minute…
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7 Ways to Polish Your Writing and Get Your Message through as Fast as Lightning to Men and Women from every Walk of Life

  How to Become a Lean Mean Editing Machine Reading is a conversation between two people. In a face to face conversation one can ask and answer questions to clarify and complete the meaning and move on. When it comes to reading this isn’t…
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25 tips for writing the user experience

So what the heck is user experience and why does it matter how you write it? While in the online world, user experience is often considered the same as usability, information architecture (IA), and user interface (UI) design, those areas are…
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How to Design a Killer Book Cover & Skyrocket Your Book Sales

E. Haldeman-Julius sold 100 million books in less than seven years. He achieved this by using simple and effective book covers based on compelling titles and clean cover design. No fancy titles or design, it was all about simplicity. What…