Copywriting Secrets • Getting Paid • Procrastination • Research • Writing Process

January 18, 2019

10 “Speed-Copy” Secrets

The better you get at writing good copy, the more clients will want access to your time. In the beginning, you'll want to give it to them....

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Know Your Audience • Psychology • Research • Scientific Selling

January 17, 2019

Can You Judge a Customer By His… Computer

A few years back, Apple had a long-running ad campain, “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC.” It worked, but why? Perhaps because...

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Creativity • Know Your Audience • Writing Process

January 16, 2019

Brainstorming For One

You brainstorm to get ideas when you have none. Ideally, you do so in a group. So you can feed off each other. So you can legitimize...

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Copywriting Secrets

January 15, 2019

Writing Ads That Let You Sleep at Night

The unflinching principle of all successfuladvertising… all marketing… all business… and all relationships… is also...

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Copywriting Secrets • Creativity • Finding the Benefit • Headlines and Leads • Know Your Audience • Psychology • Writing Process • Writing Style

January 14, 2019

What’s The “Big Idea?”

What’s the single toughest secret you’ll ever learn, if you hope to blow the doors off the world of writing sales copy? For all...

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January 13, 2019

The Chemistry of Persuasion

Your new sales goal:  To make your prospect’s blood gush with “oxytocin.”  What is oxytocin?  An article in the New...

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Fact Box • Getting Clients • Getting Paid

January 12, 2019

How Much Money Do You (Deserve To) Make?

“Money,” Woody Allen once said, “is nice to have — if only for financial reasons.” Or as one of my...

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Confidence • Creativity • Fact Box

January 11, 2019

Can Music Make You More Creative?

I’ve noted often how strange it was that so many copywriters play instruments. And wondered, too, whether listening to music…...

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Getting Clients

January 10, 2019

How To Make a Sale Without Even Trying

A great piece of sales copy can show up where you'd least expect it. With an impact you might not expect either. At levels you never...

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Copywriting Secrets • Writing Style

January 9, 2019

Five Punctuation “Mistakes” You Should Make

Naturally, you don't want to use these recklessly. They're garnish on a piece of prose, spice to make it interesting. And a little...

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