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While I was checking out the new series of “Boron Letters 2.0″ last week, I noticed another article in the Gary Halbert Newsletter archives titled “Mindset”. This looks like it might be a draft “from the archives” because Gary’s son Bond has added some notes. It contains a typical Halbert story with a message…
One of the aims of the “Copywriting Notes” series of posts is to look further into the mindset that’s required to be a successful copywriter. You see, to be a successful copywriter yourself, you need to be able to think the way top copywriters do. The best way to learn to do that is to [...]
You’re probably familiar with the idea that in copywriting every word counts. But how about the difference a single letter can make? There’s a fairly famous case…
…and all Direct Response Marketers. Bond and Kevin Halbert, sons of copywriting great Gary Halbert, have announced three exciting new developments concerning the work of their late father…
Not me, but superstar copywriter Clayton Makepeace. Research is one of those unglamorous but absolutely crucial stages in producing sales-pulling copy. The more effective your research, the better chance you have of coming up with a killer hook or USP. Clayton’s latest blog post “Turning Research Into Gold” provides a case study on how the [...]
One of the guiding principles of Direct Response Marketing and Copywriting is to listen to your audience and get feedback where possible. I’ve just added this blog to “Blog Catalog” and over in the left hand column (sidebar) you’ll see a little button with “Rate My Blog”. It will take just 2 clicks to give [...]
If there is one idea that justifies the use of the title “Scientific Advertising” by copywriter Claude Hopkins it’s this… “Almost any question can be answered, cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that’s the way to answer them – not by arguments around a table. Go to the court of last resort [...]
One copywriting blog I love to read is Ben Settle’s “Copywriting Grab Bag”. Might have something to do with Ben and I sharing a love of movies and drawing out copywriting and marketing lessons from them. He has a great post up called “Pulp Fiction’s Secret Marketing Lesson”. In the post he gives you a [...]
Chapter 14 of the Claude Hopkins copywriting classic “Scientific Advertising” is all about getting the product to the customer – “Getting Distribution”. Now, for the classic direct response marketer or someone doing business on the internet, this subject may seem of little or no interest. But there are 2 reasons why this may be useful…
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…
In yesterday’s post “A Painful Marketing Lesson…” I touched on the topic of the knowledge that specialists have that outsiders do not. In that case, it was the computer technician knowing some simple tweaks and techniques that I did not. In other words…
…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 [...]
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