Copywriting Skills

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Skills you need to be a freelance copywriter

Interested in becoming a copywriter?Here is my take on the skills required to make a living as a freelance copywriter. This is purely the result of my experience, and it’s worth remembering that other copywriters succeed by other means,…
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Is the Curse of Knowledge Ruining Your Copywriting Efforts?

You know that feeling of being so close to your business that you struggle to explain it to somebody else?I do. In fact, it’s one of my biggest challenges in attracting new clients.The problem is: how do we communicate our true value…
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4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of Creating Long-Form Content

Most brands are getting more clued up about the importance of content marketing. But many are still getting it wrong.In many cases, it’s because they think there’s some magic formula, and some sort of “rules”. Like the imaginary…
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How to help your brain transform thoughts into writing

The most common complaint I hear from clients, friends and strangers whose eyes light up when I tell them I’m a marketing copywriter is, ‘I know what I want to say, I just don’t know how to say it’. If you suffer from this particular…
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Which comes first: design or content?

This is the ultimate ‘chicken or egg’ question for business owners and has likely been debated for just as long. The short answer is, of course, neither.Many people immediately think of design when they’re looking to create a piece…
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How Does Google Search Work? My Secret Traffic Hack Revealed

So you want to rank on Google?Well before Google you can rank you, it has to find you first. Or I should say, it has to find your content first. So how does Google search work? Search engines not only rank your pages, they also crawl and…
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Why You Should Fire Some Customers

This week I spoke to a new client who contacted me through the EAdvice service on my website. In her written correspondence she expressed concern about the overall profitability of her company. Of course, those were not the specific words she…
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How to Make Boooring Blog Posts Engaging, Interesting, and Fun

Imagine writing a tutorial-style blog post.You explain a series of important steps.You edit until your voice sounds dynamic. You tighten your text.But you’re still worried. Because your post isn’t exactly sparkling. It’s…
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Like a Virgin – Is Your Marketing As Fresh As Madonna’s?

‘Touched for the very first time’Call it what you want, but few pop stars and fewer businesses have understood the intricacies of Madonna’s genius of reinvention and the inevitable end of the business cycle. Learn from the branding…
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The Power of Simple Writing

The art of simplicity is making its mark as minimalist design principles are being seen in product design, web and even writing.Social networks such as Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram have shown us that the skill of keeping it simple can…
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How a Copywriter Understands What You Want (and your customers)

Before I get going, I just want to clear something up – writing copy is not just about collecting a few facts and then writing them in a string of coherent sentences that will hopefully convince your readers to buy something.Being a copywriter is…
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We’re in the Video Copywriting and Production Business. That’s Right I Said ‘We’

Does your website generate enough leads? Or does it scare off visitors like the plague? If it’s the latter, it could be because your website’s copywriting isn’t engaging enough. There are a lot of badly written websites out there. Too…