11 Things You MUST Know Before Hiring a Copywriter!

If you're considering hiring copywriting help for your next brochure, Web site, or marketing project. Congratulations! You should get great results if you hire a pro to do it right. Many business owners and marketing professionals have valid concerns about letting an outsider develop their content. After all - it's your business, you... Read More

Kick-Start Your Juices

Listen, consider this scenario.You have a deadline to honour. Time is pressing, tighter and tighter. You are hoping to come up with some topic for your project.....However, ideas on what to write about keep eluding you.What are you going to do in situations like these?Today there are various software and information to start... Read More

Can Honest Copywriting Succeed?

I confess--I'm a marketing heretic! I've built my career on breaking all the rules--and one of the rules I break is that I don't hype.Do I put the best possible "spin" on the truth? Of course! But I refuse to deceive my readers into action.What are some of the common copywriter tricks that... Read More

3 Reasons why Content is Still King

Back in the late nineties, the phrase 'Content is King' was repeated and repeated and repeated by site owners and marketers alike. The belief was that the more content you had, the greater the number of visitors you would attract. Of course, the content had to be well written, relevant and easy to... Read More

Fill Your Readers with Confidence

Site visitors generally stay with you for as long as they feel confident that they will succeed in achieving their goal. It's a simple truth, but important. For me, it helps explain some sites I know that perform extremely well, but appear quite amateur in their design and architecture. Some shortcomings in... Read More

The Write Way To Grow Your Business

Hone your writing skills to project a more professional business image.The sales letter you can't put down?the advertising copy that makes you want the product?the resume that prompts you to call the job candidate this second?All these are examples of exceptional business writing. While you certainly know good writing when you see it,... Read More

Step One for Copywriters: Understand WHAT to Say

Find a passage of poorly written copy, and chances are you will have found a copywriter who never figured out what it was that he or she was trying to say. Whenever I have trouble with some copy, I stop, sit back and then write at the very top of the page... "What... Read More

Welcome Informed Criticism of Your Work

When you come to 'know' something, there is a temptation to stop thinking about it. You put it in a box as 'known' and are happy to argue with anyone who disagrees. This is both a good and a bad thing. It is good to hold firm to your beliefs, to be true... Read More

Dont Be Satisfied With Your First Draft

Sometimes it's a struggle to figure out what's the best thing to say. You're writing a heading, the first sentence of an email, the introduction to a newsletter, a short description on a homepage. But what should you say? When you have just a few words, what's the best message? One of... Read More

Four Things Every Web Site Headline Must Do

As you know, I'm constantly making the point that the text on web sites is not given enough attention. Which is unfortunate, because the headlines on site pages make huge demands on the skills of any writer. If you're writing a headline or heading for a site page, here are four things you... Read More

3 Ways to Increase Conversion Rates

In a previous article I talked about a few similarities between writing direct mail packages and writing web sites. In short, I concluded that as online writers we could learn a lot from direct marketers. In this article I'm going to take a look at just one of those similarities: both direct mail... Read More

How to Write Profitable Ads

Regardless of how you look at it, the most important aspect ofany successful business is its advertising. In fact,the success of any business is largely dependent on good advertising. First of all, you've got to have a dynamic, spectacular ad thatattracts the eye and grabs the interest of the people you'retrying to sell... Read More

10 Keys to Copy That Sells!

Whether you're selling a product or service, the 10 tips below are your keys to writing great copy that communicates and persuades ... to get results! These guidelines can apply to most any form of consumer marketing communications: sales letters, brochures, web copy, or direct mail. As long as your goal is to... Read More

Help, Help, Help, Sell

Here's a fundamental difference between copywriting offline and copywriting for the web... - Give or take, my job as a copywriter offline was to sell, sell, sell, sell. - Online, I think, my job is best described as help, help, help, sell. How come? Because web sites are a pain for buyers and... Read More

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Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia, 10, second from right, and Sasha, 7, wave after his acceptance speechat the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.  (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first black president.



Delegates and interested participants fill Invesco field at the 2008 Democratic National Conventionin Denver, Colorado August 28, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Bourg   (UNITED STATES)   US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)AP - More than 84,000 people have jammed into Invesco Field at Mile High stadium to hear Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech, city officials say.



This view shows a section of drainage pumps located on the 17th Street canal in New Orleans Thursday Aug. 28, 2008. The pumps where installed after Hurricane Katrina. The Army Corps of Engineers has spent billions of dollars to improve the levee system, but because of two quiet hurricane seasons, the flood walls have never been tested. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)AP - With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the groundwork Thursday to get the sick, elderly and poor away from the shoreline.



Australian pilot Captain John Francis Bartels (R) looks at the damage to a Qantas Airways plane after it made an emergency landing at the Manila International airport in this July 25, 2008 file photo. (Handout/Files/Reuters)AP - An oxygen tank exploded and blew a car-sized hole in a Qantas jet last month, air safety officials said Friday, but investigators appear to be no closer to figuring out why.



Former Marine Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario Jr., 28, from New York, speaks about his impending federal trial, at the office of one of his attorneys, Joseph M. Preis, in Irvine, Calif., on Aug. 16, 2008. Nazario faces charges of shooting detainees during the 2004 battle of Fallujah, in Iraq. The defense has rested without calling a single witness Wednesday Aug. 27, 2008, at the civilian trial  of Nazario, a former Marine charged with killing unarmed detainees in Iraq, in Riverside, Calif. (AP Photo/Sean Dufrene)AP - A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother.



In this May 29, 2008 file photo, Dell computers are on display at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif. Computer maker Dell Inc. says its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 17 percent Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Restructuring charges were partly to blame. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)AP - Computer maker Dell Inc. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 17 percent, hurt in part by PC price cuts. Both earnings and margins fell short of Wall Street estimates, and Dell shares plunged.



In this Aug. 2006 file photo, actor David Duchovny arrives at the premiere of 'Trust The Man', in New York. Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction, his representatives said Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Duchovny, 48, plays a sex-obsessed character on the Showtime series 'Californication,' which earned Emmy nods for casting and cinematography. The show's second season begins Sept. 28. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction. In a statement released Thursday by his lawyer, Stanton Stein, the actor said he did so voluntarily, adding: "I ask for respect and privacy for my wife and children as we deal with this situation as a family."



This satellite image released by NOAA shows Tropical Storms Gustav and Hanna on Thursday Aug. 28, 2008. Residents, tourists and oil workers fled as Gustav swamped Jamaica on Thursday, leaving 59 people dead in its wake. Tropical Storm Hanna formed in the Atlantic Thursday, northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - The spinning core of Gustav bore down on southern Jamaica on Thursday after leaving 67 people dead in Hispaniola. Texas and Louisiana put their national guards on standby, and New Orleans said a mandatory evacuation might be necessary.



AP - A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.

Julie Coin, of France, celebrates her 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory over top-seeded Ana Ivanovic, of Serbia, in a U.S. Open tennis tournament match in New York, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Even for the mathematics major from Clemson, it just didn't add up: How could someone who recently struggled so badly she wanted to quit tennis stay on the court with the No. 1 player in the world?



Attendee Shannon Patterson holds a fan depicting US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 28, 2008. (Larry Downing/Reuters)Reuters - Barack Obama launched an assault on Republican presidential rival John McCain on Thursday with a promise to reverse the economic failures of the past eight years and restore America's reputation in the world.



A dog and its owner walk through a flooded street in Havana August 26, 2008. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)Reuters - Tropical Storm Gustav was blamed on Thursday for at least 68 deaths in the Caribbean and U.S. forecasters said it could hit New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico oil fields as a potentially powerful hurricane next week.



People attend a funeral of soldiers killed in the South Ossetia conflict at a cemetery in Tbilisi August 28, 2008. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)Reuters - Russia faced diplomatic isolation over its military action against Georgia on Thursday, with its Asian allies failing to offer support and France saying EU leaders were considering sanctions.



Pakistani soldiers patrol a highway in Darra Adam Kheil, near Peshawar, February 1, 2008. (Ali Imam/Reuters)Reuters - A suicide bomber tried to force his vehicle into a Pakistani military camp in the northwest on Friday but was blown up when soldiers opened fire on him, a day after dozens of people were killed in violence across the region



Pedestrians walk past a Lehman Brothers sign in New York, June 19, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs in its latest round of cost cutting, a person familiar with the matter said, as weak financial markets spur layoffs across Wall Street.



Supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) clash with riot police outside the Government House in Bangkok August 29, 2008. (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)Reuters - Thai riot police scuffled with demonstrators barricaded in the prime minister's compound on Friday as they delivered an eviction order against the group seeking to oust the government.



Jalapeno peppers are shown for sale at a Los Angeles market in Los Angeles, California July 22, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - An outbreak of an unusual strain of Salmonella that sickened more than 1,400 people and put 286 in the hospital appears to be over in the United States, federal health officials said on Thursday.



Jeffrey Eischeid, former head of the Innovative Strategies group from accounting firm KPMG exits federal court in New York, September 6, 2005. (Chip East/Reuters)Reuters - A U.S. appeals court has upheld the dismissal of criminal charges against 13 former executives at KPMG, saying prosecutors violated the defendants' rights by pressuring the accounting firm not to pay their legal bills.



A graphic on Barack Obama, Democrat candidate for the US presidency. Obama told Americans their AFP - Barack Obama savaged John McCain and "broken" Republican politics, vowing to restore America's promise in a tumultuous climax to the Democratic convention before an 84,000 strong crowd.



A South Ossetian woman walks near destroyed buildings in Tskhinvali. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States of manufacturing the Georgia conflict as tensions mounted with the United States threatening to scrap a nuclear deal to protest Moscow's actions.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)AFP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused Washington of manufacturing the Georgia conflict as tensions mounted with the United States threatening to scrap a nuclear deal in protest at Moscow's actions.



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The Biggest Mistake Copywriters Make

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How To Be Creative

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How To Make A Career Out Of Copyediting And Proofreading

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A Writers Secrets

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3 Copywriting Tips - How To Edit For Mass Appeal!

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7 Big Ticket Copywriting Secrets I Learned from Ted Nicholas

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Does Your Copy Look Fake To the Search Engines?

From the early days of search engine optimization, keywords and content have... Read More

Your Article Headlines will Make or Break Your Business

Most people with an online presence will have to regularly deal with... Read More

Organizing Your Data to Write Better Copy

Last quarter I talked about interviewing / gathering data. So now you've... Read More

Content is King

IntroductionA pencil. Yes, a pencil. In my opinion, every great idea has... Read More

How To Get Started With A Career In Copywriting

Careers in copywriting are booming. Could it be that the new and... Read More

Hooks, Lines & Sinkers

Hands up if the title to this article made you think that... Read More

The Five Rules Of Influential Web Writing

Building a professional reputation requires a campaign founded on your words: the... Read More

How To Find Freelance Copywriting Jobs

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Copywriting and Your Five Senses

In its most basic form, copywriting is, among other things, the art... Read More

On Copying and Stealing Designs

The notion on the great artist, Pablo Picasso's quote, "Bad artists copy.... Read More

3 Tips For Writing Content That Will Make You Sales

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Website Promotion: 10 Secret Motivational Triggers That Make People Buy

Unless you know the secret motivational secrets that make people buy, your... Read More

Fundraising Letters: Where To Find Creative Ideas For Your Appeals

How do you make your fundraising letters creative and fresh year after... Read More

Welcome Informed Criticism of Your Work

When you come to 'know' something, there is a temptation to stop... Read More

Are You Losing Customers Because of Typos?

Overlooking simple steps such as proofreading and grammar can affect the credibility... Read More

Four Things Every Web Site Headline Must Do

As you know, I'm constantly making the point that the text on... Read More

Super Verbs Really Move Your Copy

Run or hustle? Eat or devour? Move or scurry? You can boost... Read More

Can Anyone Succeed as a Freelance Copywriter?

This is a question that can be answered in a lot of... Read More

Your USP is Useless

One of the keys to writing good marketing copy is to differentiate... Read More

How To Really Connect With Your Customer In Your Copywriting

One of the least talked-about areas in copywriting education is voice. This... Read More

5 Critical Mistakes Most Freelance Copywriters Make

Think you have what it takes to be a freelance copywriter? I... Read More

Promote Your Business and Get Paid for Doing It!

How can you gain credibility and exposure for you and your business,... Read More

Copywriting Makeover: Making An Emotional Connection - Part 2 of 2

In part one of this article series we began looking at the... Read More

3 Reasons why Content is Still King

Back in the late nineties, the phrase 'Content is King' was repeated... Read More

More Insider Secrets to Great Copywriting - Judging Your Target Market

This week we're going to reinforce the training that Recruits of my... Read More

Kick-Start Your Juices

Listen, consider this scenario.You have a deadline to honour. Time is pressing,... Read More

Writing Effective Sales Copy

Whether you run a home-based business or Microsoft, one thing is always... Read More

How To Find Freelance Jobs - Writing About Food

Did you know that jobs writing about food are available? These opportunities... Read More

Boost Your Conversion Rate In Three Steps

When I critique, edit or rewrite sales copy, I discover that many... Read More

So Youve Decided to Hire a Freelance Copywriter - A Guide to the Collaboration Process

Whether you're an executive or a small business owner, chances are you... Read More

Accelerate Your Freelance Copywriting Master Business Plan!

Ever wish for your own copywriting business?Ever wish you could become one... Read More

Bullshit Avoid the use of the word Bullshit

It is important in this new paradigm of political correctness to tone... Read More

Writing for People and Search Engines

Writing for the search engines is much different than writing in any... Read More

Can 97% of Netpreneurs be Wrong?

Why Some People's Ads Almost Always Make MoneyDiscover the Master Copywriter's Little-Known... Read More

What A Ghostwriter Needs To Do To Earn Top Dollar

The huge demand for writers online is really for ghostwriters. A vast... Read More

How To Take Your Freelance Writing Chances

Your initial freelance writing assignments are the best way to present yourself... Read More

Copywriting for the Web: Do You Have What It Takes?

In the world of web copywriters, many will try, but few will... Read More

Tech-writers: A Necessary Evil

New to tech-writing, or thinking about starting? The key to success is... Read More

Keeping It Real: The Only Copywriting Trick That Works

Much of today's accepted copywriting wisdom comes from old books written for... Read More