A favorite pastime of mine is cooking. While I don’t have any sort of specialty, I enjoy experimenting and trying new recipes out. The only thing I like better than cooking is actually eating the food I make. If you’re like me and enjoy food, you naturally understand the value and importance of enhancing the
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If you want to quickly and easily improve the effectiveness of your marketing, whether online or offline, you need to understand the critical relationship between how your copy looks "copy cosmetics" and the response it generates. Back in April of 1998, marketing guru and master copywriter, Dan S. Kennedy wrote in his newsletter… “Cosmetics Matter!”
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One of the biggest response killers I see with the marketing materials I critique for clients and coaching members has to do with what I call “marketing context.” By definition, context means the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, scenario, etc. In more practical terms, what I mean by “marketing
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Recently, I heard a news report about “Artic goo.” Apparently there is some nasty, algae-type stuff floating around the North Pole. As the camera panned the ocean, this goo was floating on the water’s surface, leaving a disfiguring wound on an otherwise pristine natural setting. Being a copy cosmetics geek, I couldn’t help but make
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