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Creative thinking from the world’s leading copywriters

Copywriting & The Language Of Friendships
Content & Strategy"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…

Content Marketing: The 40-25-35 Formula for Effective Writing
Content & StrategyEven 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…

How I Reintroduced Creative Alchemy Into My Life Again
Content & Strategy Copywriting SkillsIn 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…

What My Italian Family Taught Me About Food, Marketing and Copywriting
Content & Strategy Copywriting SkillsI 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…

Writing Content for the Web – Basics
Content & Strategy Copywriting SkillsWhen 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…

How I Write: My Copywriting Process
Content & StrategyWhether 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…

5 Writers Who Have Been Imprisoned
FreelancingThere is no great genius without a mixture of madness. ~Aristotle Some of the best writers – literary geniuses, even – have more than their fair share of mischief and periods of madness. While some were able to get off with nary a scratch…

The 5-Step Process of Creating Synergy Between Content Marketing and Social Media Marketing
Content & StrategyYou 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.…

Advertising Taught by Guinness
Content & Strategy Copywriting SkillsAdvertising 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…
