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Whether you are a copywriter at a marketing agency or a business owner who writes their own content, you know that, from white papers to email newsletters, writing consistently lively, stylish communication is essential to a great business. This is no way stops you from occasionally wanting to brandish your ballpoint pen like a sword and scream “back away” at the thought of having to write, say “patent-pending polyurethane upholstery” or “innovative LED inner bulbs” one more stinkin’ time. The moral? Writing content-on-demand can easily lead to burn-out if you aren’t careful, so here are six fool-proof ways I’ve found in my six year career as  a copywriter to keep my copy fresh and engaging…and to keep myself from going batnuts.
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from Sebastian 896 Days ago #
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I'm used to digest loooooong paragraphs in academic papers, dull as dust. In an article about ass-kicking copywriting, I do expect easy to read and nicely structured text.

I mean, you got away with unstructured long text like that aiming at bots in the past, but that's a thing, well, of the past, too. Certainly you can't apply this style, or better non-style, when you write for human beings on the Web.

My first advice for ass-kicking copywriting is: write for the human eye in a pleasant way that attracts the reader's attention instantly. Surfers scan and skim Web contents, and they lose interest once they don't get the message in 2-3 seconds. That happens when the first paragraph weights a metric ton or two and not a single word is emphasized.

You deliver only overweighted paragraphs. That's a F. Back to the notepad. Insert some P EM STRONG UL OL LI and IMG elements.




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Desphinn from Sebastian 896 Days ago #
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Kick ass advice on writing copy should be somewhat readable.

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Desphinn from searchengineman 896 Days ago #
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Unreadable, confusing & should be left as an example of bad..editing.

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