Posts Tagged‘copywriting’

Why Long-Form Writing Is More Effective Than Short Posts

In the marketing world, it used to be said that shorter posts were better for your blog. It makes sense: readers have more to read than ever, and less time to read it. So, by making short, punchy posts, you can cut through to what people really want and leave the fluff out. It was also better for SEO to keep the waffle from your blog or landing page. So, what’s changed? Readers spend time reading As obvious as it might seem, content consumers reserve some part of their day for reading and learning. Some websites exist purely to pack in as…

If They Told You Copywriting Is Formal Communications – They Lied!

Those of us who studied formal communications at a time when rules were paramount probably have the greatest trouble writing for today’s online audience. Although content writing is, in a manner of speaking, formal communications, the rules have changed. The object is to engage the reader and a highly sought after copywriter will focus on that. What I have learned in more than a decade of writing with literally tens of thousands of articles online is that rules were meant to be broken – so break them! The Rules of Engagement No, you aren’t training for the military but you…