The Business of Marketing
No matter what business you’re in, you’re really in the business of marketing. If your business depends on the acquisition of customers and the continued service to existing customers … your business is marketing! It doesn’t matter if you sell chiropractic services, ‘get skinny quick’ diets and exercise magic or automobiles — your business is [...]
Continue Reading →How is Internet Marketing Like a Beautiful Woman?
I was just thinking how much Internet Marketing (IM) is like a beautiful woman. Maybe it’s a reach, but it popped in my head, so I’ll explore it. If you’ve done much by way of Internet Marketing … employing efforts to get eyeballs to your site … then I bet you’ve experienced some ways that [...]
Continue Reading →Does Your Internet Marketing Capture Hearts in our Hyper-Volatile Society?
Are you finding it more and more difficult to cut through the clutter and write in a way that will capture our ‘instant-gratification-seeking’ searchers? I think advances in technology, including the complexity of the Internet, has produced a hyper-volatile society that’s only willing to spend maybe a few seconds on your web site to read [...]
Continue Reading →How to Work with a Good Copywriter to Maximize Profits
You have a BIG project to get done, and you need a good copywriter, with a track record of writing copy that SELLS. You finally find her, but you don’t really know how to ensure you get the best job for the money. You’re not sure how to even relate to a copywriter. How does [...]
Continue Reading →Copywriters are Really Mind Doctors
An effective copywriter has to understand the human psyche before she can craft sales and marketing messages that will elicit a desired response. Assuming either the copywriter, or another marketing guru, has pinpointed the perfect profile for the target audience … it is then the job of the copywriter to write to this person in [...]
Continue Reading →Does Your SEO Copywriting Get You Noticed?
SEO Copywriting by Carolyn Permentier Is your SEO copywriting working as hard for you as it could? Meaning, of course, is each web page fully optimized to give the Google spiders the yummiest food possible? SEO copywriting is crucial for two reasons: 1. It’s gotta be done right to attract the spiders. 2. It also [...]
Continue Reading →Copywriting Tips for Business Owners
The Kick Ass Copywriter Business owners are often told … “Hey, you don’t have to hire a professional copywriter to write for you. Just learn to do it yourself. It’s easy!” As one of those professional copywriters, my view is that it isn’t easy for someone who has not practiced, practiced, practiced! I think there’s data [...]
Continue Reading →Copywriting to get a Direct Response!
Direct response copywriting is not a new concept. It’s been used for a very long time, starting with selling vitamins and other health products in direct mail. International Living started out with direct mail and even though they do a great job with online, emailed promotions … they still do direct mail. (Snail mail.) Many [...]
Continue Reading →Effective Copywriting — Hyperbole or Just Emphatic Truths?
I recently read a post at Ryan Healy’s blog, which was talking about ‘hype’ in copy. Oh, just in case anyone reads this, who is unfamiliar with the use of the word, copy, I am referring to words … language that’s used to elicit a specific response from readers … namely to buy something! The [...]
Continue Reading →Effective Copywriting Uses the KISS Principle
Have you ever read a marketing message, attempting to sell something … but it used stiff, proper language that only an English professor would appreciate? Most good copywriters know to use simple words and to talk to a prospect like we’d talk to a friend or to use ‘barstool conversation’ — the way you’d talk to [...]
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