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By: Hahn Dang

Hahn Dang — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:44:15 +0000

The save-the-junk-mail is supposed to be something else. Email Marketing.
too much spam these days.
Nice Post!

By: Ryan Healy

Ryan Healy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:18:58 +0000

It all depends on your perspective. Jobs are a good fit for certain people — a bad fit for others.

By: Dubai Jobs

Dubai Jobs — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:03:17 +0000

“You could never hold a 9-5 job again because you’ve been spoiled by working from home”
well that's the worst effect of freelancing to me LOL!!!!!!

By: Mac Bull

Mac Bull — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:20:50 +0000

Hello Ryan,

Wow!
A nice list you have put t0gether here. I think I nodded my head to everyone the 10 points.

Thanks for this. It was fun and interesting.

Good luck to you and your endeavors,
Mac Bull

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By: Ryan M. Healy

Ryan M. Healy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:23:27 +0000

Shel – Sounds like you’re a closet copywriter! ;-)

By: Shel Horowitz

Shel Horowitz — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:09:43 +0000

Ha, ha. I scored 8 out of 10. I don’t generally buy the products when I’m reading the salesletters for professional reasons, and I don’t even read more than 10% of the incoming third-class mail. But I used to.

Somehow, the days are so much shorter than they used to be!

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By: dianacacy

dianacacy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:16:41 +0000

Lois: “Or have you ever been writing copy in your head while someone else is trying to talk to you? And then you realize and think to yourself you have no idea what they’re talking about?”

I think my husband’s starting to catch on that I’m not actually deaf when I ask “What?” so many times during the day. LOL

and

“How about this one… do you ever go to see a movie and they have commercials at the beginning and you start commenting out loud how they should have done it? Then you start getting those glares from people. You know the ones.”

I think my family’s getting tired of that. Me too, actually. So many commercials anymore are useless clips of entertainment, sometimes badly done. You’re left with wondering what in the world were they trying to sell in the first place. I either leave the tv or read a book during the commercials.

By: John C. A. Manley | RealityCopywrting.com

John C. A. Manley | RealityCopywrting.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:51:59 +0000

“You go shopping and find yourself analyzing how the store could increase its sales.”

More so going to service-based businesses. Like the chiropractor. I’m constantly cringing at the expensive yet useless advertising.

Not even just the copy…

Expensive posters for a workshop they are holding, where the font is almost unreadable and the same colour as the background image…

Or a letterhead with their contact information in this super-faint font (I guess that looks cool).

Or a call to action on a reactivation letter that say “Call use to schedule…” but doesn’t give the phone number!

Magazines are second, though… National Geographic’s back page is great… Takes me like 10 minutes to figure what the heck they are selling…

Oh and…