11 Top Secret Recipes for the<br /> Aspiring Copywriting Chef

11 Top Secret Recipes for the
Aspiring Copywriting Chef

Copywriting Chef

Melt 3 tablespoons of butter in a fondue pot. Stir in 3 tablespoons of flour and cook on low for 2 minutes. Mix in 1 1/2 cups of dry white wine and stir until thick. Slowly stir in 1 1/2 cups grated Swiss Cheese. Beat 4 egg yolks and 2 tablespoons of thick cream and add to mixture. Season with 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg and white pepper. Add a dash of Kirschwasser. Serve with cubes of your favorite breads and diced vegetables.

If copywriting were only as simple as this tasty cheese fondue, writing sales copy would be easy.

Alas, it’s not.

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by Mohsin Naqi

Why Cutting Clichés From Your Copy is as Easy as Pie

Apples and Oranges

This post is by Mohsin Naqi of Blogging Bits.

Want to take your copywriting to the next level?

Avoid clichés like the plague.

OK, so there’s a cliché in the headline, the opening and the picture of this post, and we’re all in on the joke. But outside of irony, are clichés something you want in your writing?

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by Brian Clark

Is Digital Coaching Right for You?

Coaching

Seth Godin recently wrote about the concept of digital coaching, and how there seems to be a shortage of people providing this kind of service. And there’s no doubt that this is a huge growth area for online training and coaching concepts.

How do I know? Because it’s one of the seven business models we’ve already explored inside Teaching Sells.

Here’s a really meaty article that explains how it works.

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by Sean D'Souza

Why ‘New’ and ‘Knew’ Create Intensely Powerful Headlines

Headlines

The post is by Sean D’Souza

Writing headlines for articles is like witchcraft. You have to know the spells, and chant before you can create awesome headlines, right?

Nah!

What you really need is a factor of new.

And also a bit of knew.

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by Brian Clark

Four Easy Ways to Create Innovative Content With Interactivity

Innovative Content

When it comes to innovative content, we’re usually trying to come up with compelling things to say that will bring us attention and enhanced credibility, maybe much like we would if we were writing a serialized book. But this is definitely not a book.

In fact, online content in general and blogging in particular are very non-bookish indeed, thanks to the real-time interactivity the medium allows. Instead of a static monologue, blogs are a two-way multimedia interactive environment.

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by Brian Clark