• Why Traffic Isn’t the Be All and End All of Your SEO Strategy

      Websites and SEO (search engine optimisation) go hand in hand. Your design, navigation, coding, and content all combine (or should combine) to deliver a robust SEO strategy that attracts visitors to your website through search marketing. The problem is if that’s all you’re looking at (i.e. the number of visitors coming to your site) […]

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  • Why Aren’t People Reading Your Content?

      The simple answer to that question is because it bores the pants off them. Harsh words, but very true. Yes, you may well have spent hours labouring over your article. I’m sure it is incredibly well researched and has been proofread within an inch of its life, but that still doesn’t mean it’s interesting. […]

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  • Why You Don’t Need to Use a Copywriter With Experience in Your Industry to Get Great Copy

      Not only do you not need to use a copywriter who has experience in your industry to get great copy, but it’s also better if you don’t. Let me explain. If you were launching a brand new product to market and wanted the best field sales team possible, what would you look for in […]

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  • Why Your Content Shouldn’t Be Like Your Competitors’

      Before I launch into this particular post, I would just like to say that what I am about to talk about doesn’t happen very often. However, the fact that it happens at all compels me to write about it. What am I talking about? Copywriting briefs, or rather the lack of. The vast majority […]

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  • Why Your Sales Letters Aren’t Working

      You would think that writing a letter would be easy. Ok, most of today’s communications are electronic, so the art of letter writing is on the wane, but the act of committing your thoughts to paper can’t be that hard, can it? Judging by a lot of the direct mail I get these days […]

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  • The Definition of Quality Content

      In your business you use content everywhere: editorials, marketing, PR, SEO, social media, website copy, blog posts, brochures, email marketing, newsletters, white papers, video, blah, blah, blah. And yet many of you are still writing it in-house, using juniors with no marketing experience, or subject matter experts that know their onions but struggle to […]

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  • Why Won’t People Open Your Emails?

      Writing emails is easy, right? So email marketing must be a doddle. Mind you, getting people to open your emails isn’t such a doddle. The big problem is that the success of your email may be out of your hands. – it can all come down to how the recipient feels when it lands […]

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  • Template Website – Yes or No?

      If you’re starting up a business or looking to revamp your existing website, what will you go for – a custom build or a template? Cost is bound to be a significant factor in your decision, and a template design is probably going to be cheaper. But is it always the best choice? They’re […]

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  • These Are The 4 Things Your Website Visitors Want

      What were your first thoughts when you were designing your website? Colours? Fonts? Gadgets and gizmos? Graphics and images? How cool should it look? Did your customers enter your thoughts at all during those initial stages? No? Ah, you could have a problem. Yes, yes, yes, I know your website should reflect your business, […]

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  • How To Spot a Copywriting Charlatan

      You’ve heard of cowboy builders that give the rest of the industry a bad name, well all sectors them. The problem you have, as a consumer, is spotting them before you get burned. Looking at the world of marketing, and in particular copywriting, how can you be sure the person you’re hiring knows what […]

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