Improving Your Twitter Messages

Over the years I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading the reports from usability expert Jakob Nielsen, and try to apply what I can to the design of my various web properties.

Jakob’s latest Alertbox on Twitter Postings: Iterative Design is a good read for those who want to use Twitter (or any other stream-based communication tool) more effectively.

Watch closely as he transforms and massages a text message, through 5 rounds of redesign, to make it much …

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Worst Sales Letter of 2008 Award (already)

This sales-letter would have to take the cake for the biggest bunch of baloney and over-hyped B.S. for 2008 – ever! Considering the year was only ONE day old when I got the promo email… I wasn’t expecting to make such a declaration so early! It’s really time to stamp out this sort of clap-trap!

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Conversion Tactics 101

If you’re looking for some simple tactics to boost your conversion rates – in any niche – then get ready for Conversion Tactics 101… Ten easy things you can do right now that can make a big difference.

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Create Opening Copy that Sings and Soars

Following on from my recommendation to visit his site, please enjoy this sample of Clayton Makepeace’s writing style and advice!

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Talk About “Over-Delivering”…

I’m currently writing a sales letter for a new product, so it was very fortunate that I stumbled across the The Total Package web site. Talk about over-delivering some extremely useful content to help with copywriting!

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Why You Should NEVER Do This! Ever!

On the Internet we have to accept (to a point) that some of our material will get replicated thanks to all the various content scrapers out there… but when someone actually copies your stuff word-for-word and makes a whole new site out of it… well!!!

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