Creative Insights
Creative thinking from the world’s leading copywriters

7 Influencer Marketing Insights You Need to Know Today
BrandingIt was an invitation. Written with a spelling mistake or two and from someone I didn’t know. I went close to ignoring it. “I think you are doing a great job with your blog and hope that you can share that with businesses here in New…

Copywriting Competition: Best Call to Action
NewsShort and sweet: nothing gets straight to the point like the perfect Call to Action. Although we all try to avoid clicking, being only human, we’ve all been tempted on at least a few occasions to click an enticing CTA button. While it may…

Web Content Copywriting for Newbies
Content & Strategy“Content” is the sum of all the information you create and produce. Web content copywriting – providing practical info about your nonprofit cause, but online – has developed its own notoriety, thanks to the rise in social media. The 2013…

Newbie Copywriting: What Kinds of Writing Projects Copywriters Do
Content & Strategy Copywriting SkillsJust exactly what kinds of writing projects can a newbie copywriter – or any copywriter, for that matter – expect to do? Dozens. But in the end, it all boils down to three basic types of pieces. Read on … Three Broad Project Categories Copywriting,…

Take Your Reader For a Drive
Content & Strategy When I critique, edit, or rewrite sales copy, I discover that many clients commit some common errors. Granted, not all of them are writers. But most of them fail to drive customer actions not because they lack writing skills but…

Five simple rules for writing copy that SELLS
Content & Strategy Copywriting SkillsNeed to write convincing sales copy for your business, but can’t afford a copywriter? Learn five simple rules for writing copy that sells. Over the last 20 years I have worked as a copywriter for some of the world’s biggest advertising…

What Is a Copywriter? And What Do You Do?
Content & Strategy I’m often asked, oh so you’re a copywriter? So you can help me trademark this right? Or you can protect that for me? Nope. Afraid not. That’s copyright. I copy-write. Confused? Well, that’s why people hire me to work for them and…

Dead Copywriters Don’t Tell Stories
Copywriting Skills For over 15 years now, I've been teaching the concept of “storyselling,” a term I coined about using the power of stories in the sales process. It's nothing new. It's a technique I learned way back in my early career, especially…

A new perspective on direct response copywriting: how to sell more with love
Copywriting SkillsYou’ve undoubtedly heard that direct response copywriting is, hands-down, the best way to make more sales online. But … If you’re among the conscious/mission-driven entrepreneurs of the world, then the thought of using direct response…
