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Creative thinking from the world’s leading copywriters

10 Signs You Have a Great Copywriter, Or Not…
Copywriting SkillsEverybody can write, right? Surely, then, finding a good freelance copywriter is about as hard as shooting fish in a barrel. Sadly not. The truth is that finding a great copywriter is a tricky task. We all have different specialities and…

Copywriting tips for key marketing channels
Content & Strategy Copywriting SkillsYou don’t speak to your boss the same way you speak to your friends. Like relationships, materials for different marketing channels have different language styles. The tone and text of an email promotion differs from that of a Facebook…

Trigger Emotions Deep Dive: Fear – Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid…
Content & StrategyThere’s a well-known acronym in the B2B marketing field called FUD. It stands for “fear, uncertainty, doubt.” It is a tactic used to undermine the competition. Fear exists just as strongly in the B2B world as the B2C world. Within B2B,…

12 Lessons I Picked Up from Attending Seminars
Content & Strategy FreelancingSo you just dropped a tidy sum to attend a seminar or some other three-day event. Now it’s over and you’re exhausted. Your client work is backed up. You have a fistful of business cards to connect with. And your family would like some face…

The secret to mesmerizing sales copy
Content & Strategy Copywriting SkillsYou’ve been there. We all have. It’s a day like any other. You get in the car and you’re driving down the street to the grocery store. Suddenly out of nowhere you wonder if you left that pot of water on the stove. Geez… it could boil…

The direct response copywriter’s life
Freelancing Work HabitsYou read a lot of sales pieces about how great it is to be a direct response copywriter. Those sales pieces generally talk about being your own boss, working on your own terms and making a great income. Yes, that is part of it. But the life…

For Kids: Writing stories – are you a real-life thief?
Copywriting SkillsHow to become a real-life thief: MY GUEST BLOG FOR READING FOR AUSTRALIA - THE NATIONAL KIDS' LIT QUIZ WEBSITE Question: Your teacher announces ‘Homework tonight is a 600-word story entitled/The First Day of School/A Sinister Stranger/ Looking…

Nike v Adidas: the battle of the boots
AdvertisingThe Nike v Adidas rivalry always intensifies ahead of a World Cup, and this year has been no exception. A little known fact (and perhaps one for the conspiracy theorists out there) is that the last four finals have seen a Nike team play against…

Copywriting Tips – The Gunning Fog Index
Content & Strategy Copywriting SkillsOne of the first lessons in business copywriting is learning how to write for the reader. You wouldn’t expect to find the same type of words used for an aircraft manual, a recipe book, an online shop, and a sales email, because the audiences…
