August 21, 2008

Get your name down for a Business Matters subscription…

…because the marketing supplement I’ve been writing and editing is coming out in the September issue. If you run a […]

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July 25, 2008

Heads up: testimonials post on Copyblogger

Dean Rieck has a good post on Copyblogger about how to make the most of testimonials. Well worth a look […]

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July 22, 2008

Got my tchotsky? Marketing with baubles, bangles, gizmos, widgets and doodahs

A tchotsky - also sometimes called a feelie or a widget, I’m not making this up, honest - is a […]

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June 27, 2008

Get your email opened!

Do you send out marketing emails? Do you want to increase your open and conversion rates? Here are some tips […]

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April 2, 2008

Re: yesterday’s post on direct response

Careful readers may recall I touched on flash ads as direct response mechanisms. I was thinking of doing an analysis […]

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April 1, 2008

Direct response copywriting: a few thoughts

Yesterday I posted a video of David Ogilvy explaining his basic philosophy of advertising. You could sum up his view […]

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March 25, 2008

A quick case study: impulse buying

Lock up your daughters and hide the family silver, because Hilton has strayed from his Welsh mountain fastness and is […]

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January 30, 2008

‘Unelected, self-appointed dimwits’

Copywriting can get you into a lot of trouble.
The title of this post is a direct quote from Peter Sherrard, […]

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January 14, 2008

Can copywriting save the turkey?

In a word, no.
Back at the start of December Bob Bly asked whether copywriting is slowly dying. If it is, […]

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July 16, 2007

Simpsoniana

Despair of man, and watch The Simpsons. You will despair no more. If human beings can make a TV show […]

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