Copywriting Secrets Of The Music Business, With Doug Pew

It turns out in the larger world of culture and fashion, we’ve reached a breaking point. This is important for copywriting because of something we’ve always known and practiced, and today we’re going ...

14 Syys 29min

He is known for one of the most famous sayings in copywriting: “Enter the conversation already going on in the prospect’s mind.”Yet most copywriters don’t know much about him, or even who he is.That w...

7 Syys 32min

Somewhere near you, right now, there's a store with a whole aisle of spiral notebooks marked down to 79 cents.The gargantuan engines of the big yellow buses are getting tuned up or are already tuned u...

31 Elo 29min

How do you make the transition from having a job to being a freelance copywriter?Or, maybe more to the point, if you’re already a freelancer, how do you do what you do and get all the advantages of be...

24 Elo 32min

Nathan came up with the idea for this show, and it started, of all places, in his mom’s kitchen.Here’s what happened: If Mom says dinner will be ready in 30 minutes, Nathan is much less likely to go d...

17 Elo 34min

I was rummaging around on youtube when I came across this video with an outrageous claim:“This book literally teaches you to think like a Harvard lawyer.”My skepticism shot into high gear, but when I ...

10 Elo 33min

This week I had a great conversation with a Hollywood screenwriting coach and screenwriter himself, and it reminded me about how much people in Hollywood know that copywriters can learn and use.One of...

3 Elo 28min

Today we’re continuing with Part 3 of our Old Masters Series, focusing on the contributions of Albert Lasker. That’s because in 1898, Albert Lasker arrived in Chicago to work at Lord and Thomas, which...

27 Heinä 36min