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Why “Copywriting Success Summit 2008″ Might Not Make Sense For You…

September 8, 2008

Okay, unless you’ve been in a cave or a coma for the past two weeks, you’ve heard plenty about the signature event for commercial copywriters: Copywriting Success Summit 2008, coming in October to a computer near you…
I know, we’re promoting the heck out of the thing, but hey, think about it:
1) [...]

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Do You Ask Permission to Post Samples on Your Site? (I Don’t…)

August 22, 2008

So, I get this email from a FLCW the other day: “I’m embarrassed to say, I have several work samples posted on my website that I didn’t get permission from the clients to use. I realize this is not good business. Do you get permission from every client, even if the piece was posted/published in [...]

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“Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance Writer (STILL?) in Six Months or Less”??

June 12, 2008

Okay, need some input here. As you all know, the subtitle to The Well-Fed Writer is “Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less.” When TWFW came out in 2000, that subtitle was no hype. After all, I was paying all my bills through commercial freelancing less than four months after hanging [...]

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Even Seasoned Scribes Fret Over “Just-Turned-In” Copy…

June 4, 2008

I recently got a note from a fellow FLCW and friend of mine up in New York. Here’s what he wrote:
Peter: Do you sometimes anguish over the waiting period, after you’ve submitted work to a client and then anticipate their thumbs-up or thumbs-down response? As I write these words, I’m waiting on [...]

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“Stupidest Question Ever Asked” Spawns 5 Commercial Writing “Facts”

May 27, 2008

A year or so back, I got an email from an Atlanta gentleman that has to be a top contender for The Stupidest Question Ever Asked. I realize that’s not very nice, and I know “there’s no such thing as a stupid question” when starting out, but still…. In essence, here’s what he wrote:
“I [...]

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Sucky Writing Skills (in Business World) = Good Writing Opportunities (for Us!)

May 19, 2008

A column in my local paper this morning was yet one more gloomy drumbeat of many these days about the sorry state of writing skills amongst young people. According to a recent Pew Research Center Study, “64% of teens report that the informal styles often found in electronic communication do bleed into their school work” [...]

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