When copywriting started working online, there were those who had been writing long-winded, multi-page sales letters to the modicum audience of one person on the end of the mailing list. That worked then, but it does not work now. Short, sweet and to the point. Cut the blabber and get to the concept you want [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Writers'
Pro-Level Copywriting – Give Grammar the Heave-Ho and Get to the Freaking Point!
September 9th, 2010 – No Comments
Tags: Content Publishers · EzineArticles.com · Tips · Visibility · articles
Writing Mindset – It Comes With Pen and Paper
August 12th, 2010 – 2 Comments
I’m a position writer. I get into position and I write. That position is usually somewhere near the computer, with my fingers on the keyboard. If there’s a white space in front of me, I simply determine to fill it up with something. I’ve been known to set my writing goal as “Fill up 10 [...]
Tags: Contemplation · Novelists · Writer Rambles · Writers · motivation
Blogging Awards – Writer’s Appreciate Recognition
July 19th, 2010 – No Comments
Recently I was notified via facebook.com that I was the winner of a blogging award presented by Jo Linsdell- Feliciani. Jo writes from her home in Italy and often sends information about other writers and their blogs over her blog about Writers and Authors. I always appreciate her insight and the links she offers. All [...]
Tags: Contests · Writers · Writers Groups · motivation
Burning Midnight… uhm, Ink?
June 18th, 2010 – 1 Comment
You never know when it’s important to get the right message to the right person, until you’ve once given the wrong message to the wrong person. There’s a problematic issue there of the message and who it should be given to. Try now – this message. It’s nearly midnight and the day is gone, but [...]
Tags: Branding · Contemplation · Purpose · Writer Rambles · Writers · Writing · motivation
Break Out the Ink Pen
April 13th, 2010 – No Comments
Paper and pen go a long ways toward building a successful writing career. You’ve probably heard all the secrets that make writers good at their task. Using a computer with word count. Using word checker to spell check your writing. Using line edited scripts on the computer. Writing with a keyboard and functional digital dictionary. [...]
Tags: Contemplation · Writer Rambles · Writers
Search Engine Optimization – Why Experts Aren’t Experts
March 24th, 2010 – No Comments
By Laura Wheeler It seems that everybody is an SEO expert, even though, if you truly understand the field, you quickly come to realize that nobody knows everything about SEO. In fact, many people who say they do, are really just guessing.
Tags: Article Publishers · Branding · Content Publishers · EzineArticles.com · Links · Publicity Sites · Visibility · lessons · marketing · motivation
Park Your Butt in the Chair Time v Word Count
March 20th, 2010 – 1 Comment
“How many words have you written today?” The question didn’t resonate with me, because I’ve never really counted words. Bloggers don’t. Even back when I was focused intently on writing books for a living, my portion didn’t really have much to do with word counts, so I didn’t… Count words, that is. Traditionally, for me, [...]
Tags: Conferences · Content Publishers · Writers · Writing · ebooks · motivation
Promote a Blog with RSS Feed
March 1st, 2010 – No Comments
You read a great blog and you’d like to add a snippet of the blog to your post… What do you do? There’s a website where you can create a FEED that loads the traffic into a widget you can insert into your blog post, right below what you write about the blog — like [...]
Tags: Writer Rambles · Writers · motivation
Writers for Profit – Making Internet Marketing Work
November 3rd, 2009 – No Comments
Recently the question of value from writing seems to have hit an all time high. Writers wonder if there’s money in writing anymore. Those of us who are writing online and have been for a while know there’s definitely more money in writing online that before the market appeared. The profits are soaring for many [...]
Tags: Links · Publicity Sites · Visibility · for profit · motivation
Write for Profit – Column Personality Required
September 1st, 2009 – No Comments
Listening to Ty Harmon and Erik Stone chatter about Mike Huckabee’s column this morning made me wonder if either of them realize how much personality they bring to the “Anything Goes” morning show on KLMR Radio in Lamar, Colorado? Erik Stone’s professional reporter/journalist personality comes across loud and strong on the show, countered by Ty’s [...]
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