Pete Godfrey’s “Emotional Ad Writing & Marketing Letter” arived in the mail the other day. Full of great material, as always, including these words from Pete on how to become a good copywriter…
Archives for January 2009
Always Worth Giving Customers A “Second Chance”…
…when there’s a plausible reason. Walking around the City yesterday, I noticed an interesting piece of copywriting in a display ad for Kellogg’s “Special K”. Now, at the beginning of the year many people make new resolutions to lose weight or get fit. And Kellogg’s take advantage of this in their advertising at the beginning […]
Copywriting Books That Shaped The Business – Take 1
Penguin Books in the UK have a “Great Ideas” series of books that they describe as… “…the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.” It occurred to me that it would be useful to have a similar list of the books that […]
A Simple Question Copywriters Can Use…
…to be more successful. While researching a current project today, I dug out an old set of Jay Abraham CDs. These are the recordings of a seminar Jay held back in 2002. One of the speakers was Brian Tracy, someone I have a lot of time for. Brian was speaking about entrepreneurship and success and […]
Medieval Monk Inspires Classic Copywriting Template…
Offering a free “Special Report” to attract leads is a classic copywriting and direct response marketing strategy. And one of the most effective “templates” is the “7 Deadly Mistakes” report. Indeed, I happen to be working on such a report for a client at the moment. So I was intrigued by a post on Lawrence […]