Category: Copywriting

Courteous and helpful or disinterested and lazy? What kind of employee would your website content be?

24/8/2017

Call it Writesphere's mantra or accuse me of being a broken record, I don't care – as long as you're hearing this message:

See through your customers' eyes, talk your customers' language.

It's a common sense strategy, echoed by any decent marketing practitioner. Which brings me to what occurred at a recent BNI Albany meeting.

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Your business probably isn't unique and your USPs almost certainly aren't. Get over it!

28/7/2017

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Early last Tuesday morning, I had the deep misfortune of hearing a male member of the Trump dynasty on the BBC radio news. This individual was busy whining about, denying and dodging the various accusations of the day, by declaring that his actions were entirely appropriate with what was "a very unique Presidential campaign." That's it: the (oddly satisfying) final straw. Now I have a legitimate grammatical reason to despise the idiot.

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Social media - the agony of a grammar pedant

7/7/2017

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I love Facebook. As a British ex-pat in New Zealand, I regard Facebook as an essential line of communication with friends on the other side of the world. Writesphere has a Facebook page, and it's fun to interact with colleagues on there. I recognise the relevance of LinkedIn and Twitter for my business, and for my clients too. So look, I do spend a considerable amount of time on social media. But sometimes, for someone as tragically anal as myself, this can be a challenging and torturous experience. And I'm not just referring to Donald Trump's mind-boggling outbursts.

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The Engine fires up in Auckland with free business training for start-ups and SMEs

20/4/2017

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The Engine is a new initiative providing practical business support to Auckland's start-ups, and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). To celebrate its launch, The Engine is offering free training workshops until the end of May, with proven strategies and practical advice being delivered by experienced business owners.

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Why would I want to hire a copywriter?

20/4/2017

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Of course, no-one knows more about your business than you. You're like a living encyclopaedia of technical expertise and industry secrets. However, this could actually be a disadvantage.

It's possible to be too close to your product or service, so that you lose your customer by getting too bogged down in minutiae or jargon.

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Vampire Weekend were wrong! You really should give a (flip) about the Oxford comma.

22/3/2017

In 2008, Vampire Weekend released the track "Oxford Comma", expressing their, erm, profound disdain for this piece of punctuation. Now a lawsuit in the USA has proved that they really ought to have treated it with a bit more respect.

Why are there so many bad press releases?

28/2/2017

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Pour yourself a cuppa and then type the phrase bad press releases into your chosen search engine.

Some of the examples may make you burst out laughing, and others will have you scratching your head.

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Random thoughts

Courteous and helpful or disinterested and lazy? What kind of employee would your website content be?

Your business probably isn't unique and your USPs almost certainly aren't. Get over it!

Social media - the agony of a grammar pedant

The Engine fires up in Auckland with free business training for start-ups and SMEs

Why would I want to hire a copywriter?

Vampire Weekend were wrong! You really should give a (flip) about the Oxford comma.

Why are there so many bad press releases?

Author - Lizzie Brandon

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