Three posts from the last week from copywriting (OK, one of them this week is strictly “marketing”) blogs you may have missed. Something of a “marketing mindset” theme this week, certainly in the Frank Kern and Clayton Makepeace articles… Here they are… Frank Kern on “The Two Magic Powers”. Remarkable lessons from the life of […]
Key Question To Answer…
…before you write a single word of copy. As a direct response copywriter, I read an awful lot of sales letters and advertisements, as you can imagine. The ones that tend to stand out to me are those that follow the advice of copywriting great Robert Collier…
Gary Halbert On Essential Copywriting Books
Seems like aeons ago, I wrote a couple of posts “Copywriting Books That Shaped The Business – Take 1” and “Copywriting Books That Shaped The Business – Take 2” where top copywriters shared their thoughts about which are the most influential books on copywriting. While adding to my already vast collection of copywriting resources, I […]
Is This The Best Headline Template Ever?
Seem to be coming across this particular type of headline… “Is this the best (fill-in-the-blanks) ever?” …quite frequently of late. For example, in the UK “Daily Telegraph” today… “Is this the most powerful Brit in the global car industry?” Now, I personally don’t think it is the best headline template ever, but it is one […]