• What’s the Most Important Part of Your Landing Page?

    What is it? Is it the headline? Perhaps the first paragraph? How about your offer? Or, maybe it’s your call to action? No, hang on, what about the font and design that you use? What about the sign up form? If you listen to the copywriting great, David Ogilvy, he’ll tell you that: “On average, […]

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  • How to be Unique in Your Market Place

    You hear it all the time. If you want stand out from your competition you’ve got to have a unique selling point – a point of difference that no other company can offer. The problem is if you sell widgets, the chances are your widgets are very similar to those that your competitors sell. Sure, […]

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  • What a Copywriter Does (Other Than Write)

    Have you ever wondered what a copywriter actually does? Obviously they write, but there’s a bit more to it than that. The interview Before any words can be written the copywriter must meet with the client. Face to face is ideal, but geography can sometimes throw a spanner in the works there, so telephone, Skype […]

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  • The 2 Best Ways to Ruin Your Email Marketing Campaign

    Are there any tricks to email marketing? In a word, no. Of course, great copy, design and images will all help your email get opened, read and actioned, but there are no ‘tricks’ to success. The only way to get results is to avoid dodgy practices. How to lose subscribers If you want to lose […]

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  • 9 Steps to Powerful Copywriting

    Writing is the easiest thing in the world, isn’t it? You’ve been doing it since before primary school. Your skills have developed from the scribbles and lines your mum swore blind was your name to lengthy essays about the fermentation of yeast. It’s something you do every single day so writing for your business can’t […]

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  • What is a Bad Sale?

    Surely every sale is a good one, right? It means money in the bank, a (hopefully) happy customer and a bit more stock off your shelf. But not every sale you make is necessarily going to make you money. Confused? What if I were to mention the word ‘coupon’ or ‘voucher’? Are you beginning to […]

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  • Benefits-led Copywriting

    As a copywriter I’m always telling clients that the best copy focuses on the benefits of their product or service. Customers are only interested in what you can do for them. They don’t care about you, your company or even what you sell (apart from to make sure you’re trustworthy). They just want to know […]

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  • Is There a Difference Between Web and Print Copy?

    What is the difference between web copy and print copy? Actually, there isn’t a difference because other than the format in which they appear, they most both engage and persuade the reader to take an action. The only real difference is how they are read. Website copy Reading from a screen is very different from […]

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  • How to Write a Strong About Us Page

    A little while ago, on my other blog (Freelance Copywriter’s Blog), I wrote a post about how to create a strong About Us page. It contained 5 tips that I will reiterate soon, but first I want to think about the humble About Us page. For many of my copywriting clients it’s the one page […]

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  • The Perfect Marketing Partnership

    Does this sound familiar? After a lot of soul searching you finally decided to get your business idea off the ground. It starts gradually, but little by little your customer base grows and your time moves from marketing to filling orders and customer service. The problem is, once that initial rush of customers have been […]

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