writing
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Whether you’re a DTC with a CPG or B2B offering a SaaS, you need marketing. That’s simple enough, but it gets complicated since in the same way there’s a dizzying number of acronyms in this digital age, there are almost too many marketing levers to keep track of. So, what do you do? Well, you…
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Two questions I’ve heard a few times are “What is marketing?” and “What is copywriting?” I find marketing pretty easy to define, but copywriting seems to mean slightly different things to different people, even in the marketing space. The “debate” really is what is content and what is copywriting. Here’s the deal: not all outward-facing…
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I don’t really use the frameworks described below. Great sell, right? What I mean is I don’t consciously use any of them. You probably don’t either. If you’re a good copywriter, it’s pretty much instinct. But I have a secret trick for these techniques. Before I reveal it, let’s go through the popular frameworks. PAS…
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I don’t know it all, but I’m not concerned because you don’t either. No one does. But the longer we do something the more experience and, usually, better we get. This is true as true of copywriting as it is of, say, welding. A downside of experience, however, is the potential for complacency. So, instead…
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You’re selling something. Whether it’s a new energy drink, a SUV, or SaaS for doing inventory, if you’re in marketing, you’re selling something. The question is: who are you selling it to? Most people instinctively do the basics of audience identification. If they’re selling a new energy drink that’s all-natural and sustainably manufactured, they know…
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We’ve all heard the phrase “content is king.” Bill Gates made the phrase buzzworthy when he authored an essay titled “Content is King” back in 1996. Before Gates penned his piece, the phrase was the mantra of Viacom’s Sumner Redstone. Same phrase. Two different meanings. Redstone was talking about the power of ownership and distribution…
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We are, as I’m very sure you’re well aware, in a digital age. Just about every one of us receives media digitally and does so every day. For those of us on the content creation side, this has changed the paradigm for how media needs to be put together. Not that long ago, the main…
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If you read enough of the writers that are considered to be the greats, you’ll quickly realize that the rules, as far as grammar goes, are made to be broken. Writers such as Hemingway and Twain took certain liberties, but they also knew good writing was no accident. Below are some quotes from well-known authors…
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Saying the cover of a magazine is the single most important page isn’t exactly the most profound statement to be made about media. And yet many magazine architects seem to ignore the fundamentals of cover crafting. Making matters worse, covers, especially cover lines, are often the last thing checked off the list, whipped up as…
