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Who Else Wants to Write 1000 Words a Day

July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

You… do you want to do write 1000 words a day? I thought you might. Let me let you in on a little secret I discovered called Copyblogger. I found the site a little over a year ago and I haven’t told too many people about it so, you’re getting in on the ground level… [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Miscellaneous · writing

How to optimize a landing page

September 19th, 2009 · No Comments

This video posted on the Google Adwords blog, talks about well converting landing pages and the “7 deadly sins of landing page design”.  If you are a web designer or web marketer, it’s a must watch. The breakdown of the 7 sins goes like this: 1. Unclear call to action 2. Offering too many choices [...]

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Tags: Design · Marketing · Miscellaneous

Maximum Number of Words on Billboards

January 14th, 2009 · No Comments

I used to work at an ad agency where the rule of thumb for text on a billboard was; No more than 7 words. Sometimes you’d get a few more words than that when the client had something they absolutely had to say, 9-10 words, fine. When I came across these billboards on the side [...]

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Tags: Design · Marketing · Miscellaneous

More Billboard

January 14th, 2009 · No Comments

A marketing director I worked with always liked to add more elements to my designs. I usually put in less elements, knowing that we’d settle on a reasonable compromise of elements… I came up with the joke that every design I did for him just needed more cowbell. (If this makes no sense, watch this [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Miscellaneous