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Creative thinking from the world’s leading copywriters

How to Force Yourself to Write
Copywriting SkillsI think it was Mark Twain who is supposed to have said
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."
This might seem a flippant comment at first glance. When you think it through though, it makes a lot more sense.
If…

3 Tips to Increase Your Email Marketing Open & Click Through Rates
Copywriting SkillsNo one would deny that it’s more challenging than ever to get your recipients to even notice your emails - far less open, read, and click on the links you so carefully embedded in them.
Competition for your prospect’s attention has never…

How to Create a Company Slogan that Will Get You Noticed
Branding Copywriting SkillsI'm not a fan of typical corporate buzzword-infested slogans. It's preferable to have no slogan at all than one which is entirely meaningless.
You know the kind I mean. Sometimes masquerading as a mission statement, or a vision statement,…

What Does the Word Copywriter Mean in 2018?
Copywriting SkillsCopywriter [noun]: A person who writes copy for the purpose of advertising or marketing.
Today, the role of a copywriter has many nuances that are often left out of its basic definition.
Meanwhile, in less nuanced terms, we’ve seen…

The Top 5 Smart Drugs for Writers
Copywriting SkillsHave you ever sat down to work on a job only to find yourself one hour later still pondering over where to begin?
Do you have difficulty in understanding why some days you can churn out the work, where 5 hours feels more like 5 minutes, while…

Competition: Alternative World Cup Slogan
NewsAge, gender, ethnicity and religion aside, what unites humanity?
It simply has to be that football tournament that rolls around every 4 years, and the worshiping of 22 fully grown men running around after a ball!
Yes, it's World Cup time again.…

DIY advertisers: why titles don’t work, and headlines do
AdvertisingWhen you advertise your business, do you give the advert a title – or a headline?
Ads (a.k.a. “adverts”) with a title often are also “upside down adverts” which you need to avoid if you’re going to get the maximum number of leads…

Writing business we-wee is bad – but what about me-mee?
Content & StrategyAs you probably know I am forever advising businesses not to write about how “we” do this and “we” do that, unless they can relate that to how they benefit customers very, very quickly.
That’s largely because people writing “we-wee”…

How to write a copywriting brief that gets you the results you need
Copywriting SkillsThere are two kinds of copywriters out there. One type will interview you and get you really thinking about your product or service offering, your target customers, and what they really want as opposed to what you think they should buy from…
