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Copywriters: You’ve Been Duped

Want to develop a six-figure business using your copywriting skills? It’s not easy or quick. It can be fun, as long as you’re willing to roll up your sleeves first and get to work. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by the “laptop…
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How to prevent plagiarism from those digital scoundrals

The web is the Wild West as far as copyright is concerned. The digital world may be all about sharing, but if you’ve ever involuntarily “shared” your last can of beer with your sneaky, bearded colleague, you’ll know that there is a very…
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More Blog Traffic – Keep Your Readers Interested with Hooks and Hangers

More and more marketers are focusing on unique content to promote their websites. Social Media Examiner’s 2014 Social Media Marketing Industry Report indicates that 58% of marketing professionals feel that original written content is vital…
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Copywriting and Art: Where does one start and the other begin?

As a young man who still lives with his parents, I often retreat to the comfort and solitude of my bedroom to escape either Holby City, or the gentle bigotry one might expect from a couple of sexagenarians. Last night this very predicament…
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Secrets of Video Copywriting Revealed

Does your website welcome your visitors with an impressive visual summary of who you are and what you offer? Videos are an effective way to market your products, services, and right now, they rank really well by search engines. Apart from…
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Bad Lyrics: When lyrics hit the wrong note

So there we were, cheerfully copywriting away with the radio on (quietly of course), when our ears were viciously assaulted by the first lines of the Girls Aloud single, Beautiful Cause You Love Me: Standing over the basin/I’ve been washing…
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How Long Should My Copy Be? Avoiding Google’s Thin Content Penalty for Better SEO Copywriting

Is your web content long enough? Does it have enough substance—does it add enough value? If it is, it’s in danger of getting dinged with a “thin content” penalty from Google’s Panda algorithm. While Panda’s been around for a quite…
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Why quality always counts

Remember our little chat about keywords? Those little phrases we gently massage into our work to attract the attention of the SEO pixies? We always try to ensure they complement what we — and the client — are trying to say, rather than…
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Why I’ll Never Call Myself a Killer-Badass Copywriter

Frankly, I’m awkward. Adorably so. But awkward none the less. Recently someone described me as “smart.” Which I was pretty chuffed about. Who doesn’t secretly believe they’re more intelligent than other people (ahem)? And then went…

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