Archive for the 'Writing better copy' Category

Expressing Your Power

Monday, July 27th, 2009

What is going to make the difference between creating success and not creating success?
 
Fully expressing your power.
 
I believe this is true no matter what your desires - to become a successful and profitable holistic practitioner, to become a millionaire, to create passive income streams so you can travel the world, to be a [...]

Success Begins By Writing ‘SMART’er

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Making goals and objectives before writing your copy is the way to get to the meat of your subject.  A clearly defined purpose will help you write faster and better.  A good acronym to adopt in setting any objective is SMART: Specific, Measurable, Action-Oriented, Realistic, and Time-Bound. Let’s take a look at how this can [...]

Don’t make this copy-killing mistake in your headline

Monday, March 30th, 2009

The most important issue I find when I do copy critiques is that my client might write a great headline, but doesn’t back up the facts in the copy. You must answer the question or address the issue you bring up in your headline right away in your copy. When I say right away I [...]

Tips for writing attention grabbing headlines

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

The headline is the first thing people read in everything from advertisements and sales letters to newspaper articles and flyers. How good your headline is affects whether or not your piece is going to get read. Therefore, your headline is one of, if not THE most important part of anything you write.  
People quickly glance at [...]

Applying what you learn to make changes happen

Monday, March 9th, 2009

I’ve seen dozens of them try and fail, try and fail, again and again. Entrepreneurs, marketers, healers, copywriters - it doesn’t matter what they do; they are making the same mistakes repeatedly.
The most common mistake I see is that they will spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on training and education, but they never [...]

Seeking copywriters to write healthcare copy

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

As many of you know, I also founded a company that trains and recruits copywriters for  companies — The Copywriting Institute.  
I have exciting news! The Copywriting Institute has just formed a partnership with an upcoming alternative healthcare portal and is actively searching for copywriters to write copy in the healthcare industry.
I have hired copywriters to write copy for my [...]

Integrating narrative writing in your copy

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

I was fortunate to spend Saturday listening to Pulitzer prize winning writer Tom Hallman talk about narrative writing. Hallman is a reporter in Oregon and his stories have appeared in Readers Digest and Esquire. He also has a regular column in Quill magazine. He has a published book AND one of his stories was made [...]