Category Archives for Copywriting

Amazon Introduces Broadcast Email Service

Amazon just introduced a new service under their Amazon Web Services (AWS) umbrella. It’s a broadcast email service called Simple Email Service, or Amazon SES for short. In their own words: Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates […]

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Video Killed the Copywriting Star?

Bonnie Lowe responds to my call for questions and asks: Some say 18-25 year-olds don’t read; they search YouTube vs. Google, etc. Does this mean copywriting is doomed? This is a great question. After all, video killed the radio star way back in 1979… Couldn’t video also kill the copywriting star? On the surface, it […]

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What Marketers Can Learn from Hitler

Most marketers suck. Here’s what I mean: They dish out BIG benefits, HUGE promises, and OUTRAGEOUS claims in their sales pitches… and then… fail to deliver. I was recently reminded of this when a client told me about “the biggest piece of crap I have been sold” (his words, not mine). He and I both […]

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Most Popular Content on Copywriting Code

I just did a 13-month look back at CopywritingCode.com to see what content has been the most popular during that time period. The results surprised me because the most popular content was added back in January and April 2010 — rather than November or December 2009. (Older articles have a natural advantage over newer articles […]

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Proof that Hard Work Is a Legitimate Selling Appeal

Recently, Terry Dean wrote a story about how he and his wife received free ballroom dancing lessons, but declined to continue the paid lessons because the instructor said, “This will be the hardest thing you have ever done.” While Terry found this statement to be a big turn-off (so much so that he decided ballroom […]

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