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It's easy to see why online writers largely underrate the art of creating awesome headlines. So much effort has to be placed on researching content, keywords and target audience that writing the copy begins to seem like a mammoth task. Blog writers are often under pressure to pump out several … [Read more...] about Tools to Create Awesome Headlines
Business Writing Tips: Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Business Writing
The growth in trends such as e-mail or IM communication throughout the workplace, as well as a growing preference for text-based client communication, means that everyone could benefit from brushing up on their business writing. Employees that studied finance, business, IT, science, engineering … [Read more...] about Business Writing Tips: Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Business Writing
7 Lessons from David Ogilvy on Writing
Anyone that knows me knows that I am a self-confessed history buff. I love nothing more than soaking up the tales of time gone by, losing myself in romantic notions of kings and knights and damsels in distress, immersing myself in the lives of the Medici family, Da Vinci, Leonardo, Botticelli. It … [Read more...] about 7 Lessons from David Ogilvy on Writing
Top 7 Writing Tips From Great Authors
Writing Tips That Will Make You a Better Writer All of history’s great authors have struggled to produce pithy prose at one time or another. Publishing houses have rejected them. They’ve tried and failed, and then failed some more. They’ve suffered from writer’s block, and thought about throwing in … [Read more...] about Top 7 Writing Tips From Great Authors