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Falling in Love All Over Again … Thanks to the Late, Great David Ogilvy

Dear Business-Builder, A funny thing happened to me this past week. Amidst the deadlines … client meetings … and other chaos, I rediscovered how much I truly love direct response marketing.
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Art of The Copywriting Interview …

In this issue: How to use interviews to improve your copy?… How to dig for ultimate benefits and emotional hot buttons?… A case study in possibilities: 1 feature, 7 ultimate benefits?… And more! Dear Web Business Builder, Human nature is universal. In many ways it’s as predictable as the hands of a clock. People buy things for two reasons, and two reasons only: To obtain pleasure or avoid pain.
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Swipe of the Week Part 1

Can You Tell A Break-Even Ad From A Blockbuster? Dear Web Business-Builder, Ted Nicholas (pictured at left) is one the most successful and revered copywriters and information marketers alive today
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The Human Brain: An Owner’s Manual

My 4 Most Savage Productivity-Killers And The Mental Tricks That Ramp Up My Productivity … Help Me Explode Through Creative Logjams … And Get Me Bigger Winners, More Often Dear Business-Builder, Have you ever had one of those weeks that kind of come with a theme attached? Well, last week was BRAIN week for me.
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Domain Trading for Fun and Profit

We’ve been talking with Marc Charles, creator of The  China Wholesale Trader , about a new program for Early to Risers. It deals with domain trading for profit.
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The Story of My Wife, and Red Fife …

Dear Web Business-Builder, For normal people, writing and speaking are a means of expressing their point of view. For you and me – on planet copywriting – we have an entirely different objective. We write to create an effect in people that compels them to want to purchase a product or service when we ask them to do so.
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How to Tell if You’re a "Natural Born" Copywriter

Dear Business-Builder, A personal confession: I don’t just like being a copywriter. I also happen to like copywriters in general. As people, I mean.
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Today’s Words That Work: Amanuensis

Today’s Words That Work : Amanuensis An amanuensis (uh-man-yoo-EN-sis) — from the Latin for “hand” — is a clerk, secretary, or scribe; a person employed to take dictation or copy manuscripts. Example (as used by Jay Parini in a New York Times review of Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography by Alexandra Popoff): “[Leo] Tolstoy depended heavily on his wife, not only to look after the expansive family and its property but to act as his amanuensis.
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Online Sales Copy Worth Betting Real Money On

14 immutable, indisputable, ETERNAL rules for creating winning direct response copy (My advice: Print this one out and tape it to your monitor.
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