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Writing for the web

What’s your favourite copywriting book?

by Snappy Sentences on April 6, 2010

I’ve got a sneaky little side project on the go. Very exciting. Without giving anything away, it has something to do with books. Real books. My question to you is: What’s your favourite copywriting, usability, information architecture, writing for the web, or content strategy book? Let me know. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Copywriting – it ain’t about you

by Snappy Sentences on March 18, 2010

In two weeks I’ll be guest lecturing at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). The topic will be web content writing (plus blogging and internal communications), and the audience will be (mainly) first year undergrads studying public relations. It’s a subject that I took in the very same degree 15 years ago. I’ve been trying [...]

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Content strategy, more than a buzzword

by Snappy Sentences on March 15, 2010

A short and sweet post for a Monday morning. At the moment, there is a massive conference being held in the US call SXSW. The conference has an interactive stream (SXSWi), and I’ve been carefully watching the different content related presentations and panels. The good news is that content strategy seems to be gaining more [...]

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Great content takes time to write

by Snappy Sentences on February 24, 2010

I’ve knocked back a couple of jobs this week. Not because they didn’t sound interesting (actually one would have been really interesting), or because the brief wasn’t complete. No, it was the deadline. Both had a deadline of this Friday. Neither were small jobs, and the content had to be written from scratch. And (without [...]

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Turning a negative into a positive

by Snappy Sentences on February 9, 2010

Some products (or services) are easy to sell. There are obvious benefits to talk about, clear points of difference to focus on, and a strong desire from the customer to have/buy/hire. Unfortunately, you may not have this luxury. Your product or service may be mundane, embarrassing to talk about, even ugly. You may be in a market [...]

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