Copywriting 911

Copywriter + Client = Love?

January 29th, 2008

Copywriter + Client = Love?

Yes, that’s all about the difficult relations between the freelance writer and the client. Can they live in harmony? Actually does happy and long-term collaboration really exist?

The fact is that both parties may expect different things from their partnership. What does the client want? - To get the best quality at the lowest price, that’s all. As for the writers, the reasons they look for an engagement vary greatly.

Some of them ghost-write without any self promotion just to earn quick cash, others think long-term and aspire to build their reputation in the Web community to attract more readers to their blog/site, but there are also people who have neither skills nor intention to write, but are ordinary scammers, only very active in self-promotion. These guys surf freelancer forums and dupe potential clients by selling them some copy-pasted junk or even by disappearing, payment received, without saying good bye. That’s because of these “writing experts” many clients are so suspicious about online copywriters, urging them to pass all kinds of copyscapes, qualification tests etc. Click to Continue »

Content Check for Plagiarism

Copywriting 911 has already written about plagiarism and how the infringer can be beaten using DMCA. However, not every webmaster who published duplicate content is a shameless scammer. Some of them don’t even suspect that the lovely and amazingly cheap article they bought is just a word-by-word snippet from Wiki. Long live freelancers! I bet most of you guys have faced this problem at least once. Considering online marketing, good content – is the one that is at least unique, so let’s look at the best-known duplicate content checkers on the Web. Click to Continue »

Copy Lego for Adults

January 11th, 2008

Copywriting Lego for Adults

Show me a person who wasn’t fond of playing Lego as a kid. You could spend hours constructing tiny houses and gas stations. Life seemed so easy: you just took the multi-colored pieces and fixed them on the right place. Actually, the Lego concept is amazing itself: no suffering of creation, no broken ambitions – only the pure joy of simulation. ;)

And what does all that have to do with copywriting? Quite a lot, as today there exist sooo many tools helping to build copy quickly and easily – just as with a Lego set. Of course I don’t mean content generators or similar stuff – your construction shouldn’t be made of stolen bricks. Yet some sources can be rather useful when creating the article frame, making it more attractive, or just squeezing your creative juices.

For example, you are to describe the importance of advertising copywriting and to promote your services. Click to Continue »

The one who cuts often
is a barber, a butcher, –
or a great writer.

Haiku

Have you ever wondered why most people would prefer a story to a multi-volumed novel? Why O’Henri is easier to read than Charles Dickens? And why on earth your brilliant content didn’t bomb as you’d expected it to?

You may think people on the Web ignore long posts because they are focused on making money rather than on reading. It’s a double error. First some topics require truly detailed descriptions. Secondly readers hate wasting their time not so much on long pages, but on boring ones. Click to Continue »

Do you believe in Santa? Perhaps you did in your childhood, but, as years passed by, you grew more skeptical about it. You may have seen your father stuffing your Christmas stockings with candies, or someone told you that was all just a fable. All in all, Santa’s existence may be disputable, but don’t get upset: I have something really nice to tell you. Though the times when you were awaiting Christmas with thrill of joy passed long ago, you have grown and become, say, a webmaster, you can still expect Santa to grant your wishes - and that is Santa 911!

Unlike the traditional white-bearded Santa in red suit, Santa 911 is young (but very professional already), creative and available 365 days a year. He wears a PR suit - deep green, like a Christmas tree, and his SEO hat is as white as snow. Click to Continue »

Can Einstein Theory Be Wrong?

December 22nd, 2007

A brilliant person is brilliant in anything. Take Einstein for example. There are many outstanding scientists who remain completely unknown for the masses, because their field of study is very particular, and 90% of people will never be educated enough to catch at least the basics.

When it comes to Albert Einstein, it’s quite another matter. The genius’ wonderful ability to clarify most complicated concepts in plain humorous English gained Einstein the reputation of a wise, self-ironic and pleasant person, contributing much to the popularization of his ideas. Though not related directly to copywriting, Einstein’s maxims are universal and can be applied to the art of content creation as well. Bet he’d make a great blogger ;) Just try on his 5 selected ideas, and become a five times more successful writer. Click to Continue »

With the development of search engines one shouldn’t be an Eton graduate to find the necessary data on the Web. However, like anything in the world, search can and undoubtedly has to be optimized. After all, Google develops constantly and expects users to take advantage of its advanced options, not to shelve them as if it were something quite useless. Using some of Google’s search techniques, a sophisticated surfer can spend considerably less time on search than a newbie, who simply tapes the keyword and has to comb out multiple web pages before she comes over the needed info.

So, paraphrasing a famous tongue-twister, how many search results would a searcher search out, if a searcher could search searchingly? You can check it by yourself applying the following simple search optimizing tactics. Click to Continue »