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Writing Sales Copy for the Web

Writing effective sales copy requires you to have an out-of-body experience. You have to get out of your own world and put yourself in the place of your customer. Many companies are so concerned with what they want to say about their products that they never consider what their customers want to hear. Here are [...]

The Last Mile in Copy Writing—Search Engine Optimization’s Three Critical Steps

A shocking number of companies invest in writing great copy for their Web sites, but miss the very basics of search engine optimization. Most sites totally neglect meta-data—the words and phrases used by search engines—in preparing Web copy. If no one can find your site, no one will read your copy, no matter how good it is. You can write great copy, rich in keywords and formatted to rank highly in search engines, but if you neglect your meta-data, and you are trying to run a marathon with your feet tied together.

Writing Copy for the Web

A good copywriter is a master in the basics of writing, but that isn’t good enough for the web. You need to master the new fundamentals of writing for the web.

Bing v. Google Chatter

The NY post reported Sergey Brin is worried about Bing …

Surely Google has room for improvement and needs a little rattling to tune up its offering now that a competitor with some financial means to fight is in the game, and not just a startup they can roll over. The fact remains consumers don’t actually [...]

Public Relations meets the Blog

PR is the most effective way to build mind share, marketing pull and general awareness. You must learn to craft the finer more focused little blog blasts and leverage them. Long copy still sells; you just have to build that long copy in discreet chunks and sew them together on the web.

Next Generation Web Video

The next generational advancement in web-video has to be the “remote control” or the way users interact with the video distribution to pick videos or sequences of videos. Logically this mean it has to be an advancement of a search and categorization – an area locked up by Google, the owner of YouTube.

What’s in a Blog

What I want to do is write a “how-to” guide for entrepreneurs. My goal is to I lay out some basics as reference information. I don’t really think my food choices are important to anyone who wants my consulting services — so for my blog, I’m writing a book about what I do.