If you run a local service business, especially one where the work is visual, social media can do much more than fill a feed. It can show the quality of your work, remind people what you offer and make your business more familiar before they ever get in touch. Creating social media posts for a […]
When I say I work with businesses as a one-day-a-week marketing manager, people sometimes assume that means I pop in, write a few social media posts, maybe have a quick look at Google Analytics, and off I go. And yes, sometimes social media is part of it. But that is only one small piece of […]
Some of the best marketing results I’ve seen have come from things that sound too simple even to bother trying. Not the glossy campaigns or the perfectly designed ad creatives. Not the content calendars that take three weeks to approve. Just simple, human, slightly rough-around-the-edges or “old school” marketing that works way better than it […]
Stop stressing meowt about AI Search. If you’ve been doing SEO properly, you’re already positioned for AI search. Do you… ✓⃝ Use well-structured content? ✓⃝ Write authoritative content? ✓⃝ Proper FAQs? ✓⃝ Make content readable and digestible? ✓⃝ Anticipate the customer’s next questions? ✓⃝ Getting mentioned in high-quality lists and review sites? Doing all […]
🎵 “Here I am, stuck in the (marketing) middle with you” If you’re like a lot of my clients, you’re stuck in the marketing middle. Too big for basic Fiverr marketing services… But too small for an agency that treats you like account number 29C or the 80-100K salary of a full-time senior digital marketing […]
Last week, I won a bullet-writing* competition. So what, you may say? Fair enough. Beating out a bunch of very talented copywriters… winning an award from copy chief Kevin Rogers and Australia’s best copywriter, David Throssell… or just getting the right people on the hook for your offer… It Isn’t […]
6 Ways To Use Email To Move Near-Expired Food Can you use emails to sell near-expiry food in a way that doesn’t downgrade your brand? Add 6 simple types of messaging to your promotional emails to start selling almost-expired goods like hotcakes. In the past, businesses like yours have thrown away food […]
8 Ways To Impress in SMS Here are a few thoughts on dipping into SMS marketing as an email copywriter. The first shocker: you get 160 characters to use in a message, excluding the all-important opt-out terms. So in reality, you have 139 characters to personalise your message, clearly convey your point, and encourage […]
Did you know that our decisions are made by our “lizard brain” or “old brain”, a brain that doesn’t even understand words? Some people call the old brain the first brain, because it appeared first – before we grew a middle brain and new brain. The old brain is the first to develop in utero. […]
Takeshi Okawara, the marketing genius who sold Japan on KFC for Christmas dinner, recently admitted that it was built on a lie. When KFC Japan was starting from scratch, the national broadcaster NHK asked if fried chicken was really the Western Christmas tradition. Okawara replied “Of course!” He told podcast “Household Name” : “I knew that the […]
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