Archive for 'word choices'
Don’t Make Customers Think About Your Message
Whether you’re writing a postal letter, adding copy to your web site, sending an email, or placing an ad in your local newspaper, it’s important that your customers don’t have to think when they read your message.
OK – I hear you telling me that of course they have to think. And they do. They [...]
Posted: February 9th, 2010 under advertising, copywriting, effective marketing, marketing, word choices.
Tags: copy flow, copywriting, marketing, marketing message
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Article-altering Software – Should You Use it?
Have you considered buying a software program that guarantees to make dozens of new articles from just one – by changing some words to other words with the same meaning?
If so, you may get more comedy than content.
This morning I got a google alert that one of my ezine articles had been picked up by [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2009 under copywriting, word choices.
Tags: article software, comedy content, fresh content, nonsense content, unique content
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Can Your Words Be Twisted to a New Meaning?
All professional copywriters and marketers try to be careful with the words they use – thinking ahead to how someone else might understand them. That’s one of the reasons that writing good copy takes a lot more time than many would think.
That said, I haven’t read the words that made the laws for the following [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2009 under ad copy, word choices, word tricks.
Tags: copywriting, laws, rules, understanding copy, word choice
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Same words, different people = different understanding
Reading computer related instructions always frustrates me, because I’m not techie enough to know what the words mean. When they say “enter name” my first question is “what name?” My name, the website name, the web host’s name? What??? From there it generally gets worse.
The people who wrote the instructions knew what they meant, but [...]
Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under ad copy, advertising, clarity, word choices.
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