The most important element of any email campaign is the subject line. After all, your email subject line is what will make people either want to click on and read your email or send it straight to the “junk” folder. Those few words might be the first and only thing that will catch your recipient’s attention. There are good and not so good styles of...

As some of you may know I’m about to launch a Copywriter Mentoring program. As part of that, I’ve been “head down” putting together training material on the traits of highly successful copywriters. Before long, my thought processes soon turned to the Male vs Female debate. More specifically, I started to ponder the question, “Who’s...

Next time you’re writing sales copy, consider this when you’re marketing to women or men, specifically … As a marketing professional you obviously know your product well, so you’ll know that the needs of your men clients are different to those of your women clients. And salespeople, you’ll know that when you’re selling in a face-to-face...

It’s irritating. Ask most people how they feel about being sold to and this is the answer you’ll probably get. Today, more than ever, people don’t like being told what to do. That’s why sales tactics of a decade ago simply aren’t working today. And that’s also why sales people and copywriters today are approaching the sales process in a...

By now most people have seen all the “hoo-ha” about employees being fired over negative comments they’ve made on Facebook. But the even crazier thing is small business owners don’t seem to have taken the hint and continue to post very damaging tweets of their own. I was initially reluctant to write this article because I figured that these mistakes were...

Sales “scientist”, Elmer Wheeler was an absolute master of understanding how buyers think and understanding how  to really connect with a buyers’ hopes and fears, conversationally. In the following article, Mr. Wheeler talks about “penetrating the cloud”. In other words, it doesn’t matter whether we are walking down a...