Your website content is an essential piece in the persuasion process. Its effectiveness determines how well your marketing message appeals to your prospects’ emotional senses that trigger action. The writing on your website also affects whether people can find you and your business using search engines. When you have poor website content, your ability to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 31, 2007
As the son of two teachers (my mom taught 7th and 8th grade English, while my dad was a sociology and anthropology professor at a local community college), I lived in an educational environment for the first 19 years of my life. In fact, I was literally born in a school setting. On May 19, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 13, 2007
A couple of weeks ago, I came across Jay Abraham’s list of The 100 Greatest Headlines Ever Written. It’s already been a great tool for helping me come up with new headline ideas for a couple of recent projects. If you’re in a jam and don’t know what to write, nothing works better than studying [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 1, 2007
I make no secret in my belief that curiosity is the strongest force in direct marketing. Since people have a natural desire to find out more than what they know, tapping into this trait is one way to increase the effectiveness of your marketing materials. Whether you’re writing a sales letter, website content or just [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 18, 2007
Want to quench your thirst for Google juice? Here’s a headline tip for press releases that I received yesterday via an annoucement from Business Wire: Shorter Headlines Can Lead to Google Juice Lock up your long-winded headlines. This week, Google alerted Business Wire that press release headlines should not exceed 22 words. That’s eight words [...]
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