Let’s take a look at the coming month of February 2015 for the various holidays, events and anniversaries that smart marketers can use as the basis for a promotion or campaign. And although we’re looking just one month ahead at February, it’s never too early to get started on your preparation for months and major […]
How The Once Mighty Are Fallen…
Received a solicitation from Amex yesterday for a Gold Card. Now, in my humble opinion, the classic “Quite frankly” Amex letter is one of the all time great pieces of direct response copywriting. Lost count of how many times I’ve written it out longhand. So it was with a great sense of disappointment…
A Painful Marketing Lesson…
…relearned. No blog post yesterday, largely because I lost internet access. OK, it was partly my fault. I tried updating some drivers and that somehow trashed my modem connection. Now, as a freelance copywriter and internet marketer, not being connected is a bad thing! A call to my ISP help desk failed to fix the […]
Copywriters – Are You Missing Out By Not Using This Unusual Tactic?
Got your attention? Good, that kind of illustrates the topic of this post! Copywriter Pete Godfrey, Australia’s own “Wizard Of Words” has made a couple of interesting posts on his blog ( “The Fear Of Loss Is More Powerful Than The Hope For Gain!” and “Persuasion Power…The Two-Sided Coin”) about the use of “negative” emotions […]