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MARCH 31, 2024

In 2024 at least 60% of affiliates are using “blogging” as their primary method of “driving traffic” to their website. So many affiliates just do a Copy and Paste – don’t do that! He was able to sell over 100 copies of my plugin by writing a post, adding images and a video then emailing it to his list.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Maybe he wants a new website, or some copy, or marketing advice. Post by James Chartrand James Chartrand is a leading pro copywriter, online business consultant and the owner/founder/CEO of Men with Pens and Damn Fine Words , the game-changing writing course for business owners. So how often do you say it to your prospects?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 28, 2013

Everything I’ve just said isn’t news – all the pros tell you this: Write compelling website copy to pull in new customers. How do you make website copy more compelling and effective for your business?… first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 30, 2010

And the next time you have sales copy to write for a client where the standards – money and success – really do apply, ask yourself why customers want them for and for what purpose. Get us to write your sales copy. 9 Responses to “How to Write Sales Copy When the Standards Don’t Apply&# Comments Read below or add a comment.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2011

You might have put some effort into your website already. Maybe you need better website design. Maybe you need brilliant copy. We usually sell our 5-page web copy package for $2,387. We usually sell our world-class websites (complete with logo, social media customization and blog) for $4,999. Website Design.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 19, 2012

They complain they’re having trouble getting new clients or earning a decent living from their business, and after I take one glance at their website, I can see why. Most freelancers have a terrible website. Maybe the copy is terrible. I was planning to get around to that…” They know their website has problems.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

That’s about how long we spend on a website before deciding whether or not it’s worth our time. It’s possible to put your website in front of thousands of people on any given day. How you got them more clients – with great web design, fantastic copy, killer marketing strategies – was a detail. Considerably. It still works.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 12, 2011

So they give me the virtual finger, go work their asses off throwing together a business plan, mocking up a website, writing copy, and what have you. Post by James Chartrand James Chartrand is the pen name of a thirty-something copywriter, problogger and online entrepreneur from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Everyone knows that!!!

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 1, 2013

Blog posts, newsletters, website copy, emails… you have to write a lot to achieve your business goals. You know you need copywriting for your website, but you aren’t really sure how to write website copy that actually brings you sales. The problem is that you don’t know how.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 15, 2012

I’ve been a copywriter for almost 20 years now. What works to make the doubt be quiet so we can get down to the business of hammering out copy for websites or ads for air conditioners or hey, even that novel we’ve got locked a drawer somewhere? When she couldn't find a website that would help her - she created one herself.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 26, 2010

Does your website copy look like you’re trying to impress that professor who won’t give out an A unless you blind him with such stunning prose that he rocks back in his leather-upholstered chair, glassy-eyed, pipe askew, groping blindly with his grading pen? Who could make their website copy better (and simpler).

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

You know this, because all the pros tell you to write compelling website copy to increase your client base and sales. How to write compelling website copy that draws in new customers. first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. Not after the course – after each lesson.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

You may not think that your website, your blog, your freelance business, is something you need to think about in your last will and testament, but it is. Consider what you’d like for your website, your blog or your online business if you were to pass on. Written by James - 58 Comments My great-aunt passed on this winter.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 9, 2013

You see, many people tell me they wish they could register for Damn Fine Words, because they know that if they could just get in the course… …they could set their business firmly on the path of success, because they’d finally have the skills to write engaging website copy that pulls in much-needed clients.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Would a better website boost your sales? Would more focused web copy turn more visitors into clients? Post by James Chartrand James Chartrand is an entrepreneur, a pro copywriter and the founder and CEO of Men with Pens and Damn Fine Words , the game-changing writing course for business owners.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 20, 2012

You see, many people tell me they wish they could register for Damn Fine Words, and that if they could just get in… …they could finally start that online business, because they’d have the skills to write website copy that pulls in clients. She loves the color blue, her kids, and ice skating.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2012

Write compelling website copy to land clients and sales. How to create compelling web copy. It showed in their web copy, because it didn’t bring in sales. Damn Fine Words Writing Course: Now Open to New Members first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved. No one tells you how.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

To a web-savvy visitor, those keyword-laden phrases can look like this is a junk website, so get your name in front of the keywords. The web copy itself is a bigger concern. I wonder if they have a website?” The domain name, denver-motorcycle-lawyer.com , is tricky. For example, “We’re ready to help. It’s okay.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 4, 2010

If you’re pitching a website, look for “Editorial Guidelines&# or “Contributor information&#. Attach a copy of the original query to the email. I do this often, and include the responses under the published articles on my website. Copyright 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc - All Rights Reserved.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

The world is full of dreaming writers who have heard golden stories of the great beyond (working full time as a well-paid freelance copywriter) but who have yet to make the mysterious transformation from mere mortal to freelance god. IDENTITY It’s not enough to be a copywriter. You can’t tell one from the other.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 23, 2010

Well, she would have been, except she called copywriters vanilla. There are copywriters, bloggers, academic writers (the vanilla of the writing world?), Get a copy of Chip and Dan Heath’s book Made to Stick if you want the authoritative take on this.) Can we have disco music and flashing lights?) Now I’m offended.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Dean Rieck is one of America’s top copywriters and never, ever procrastinates. He stays busy writing for his many clients and providing copywriting tips for smart copywriters at Pro Copy Tips. Reorganize your GTD folder. If for no other reason, do it for the irony. He really wants you to visit his blog today.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 18, 2010

Between them, they’ve founded a role-playing gaming company, written for gaming publications like Wizards of the Coast and Dragon Magazine, written nine books, and host three incredibly popular websites, RolePlaying Tips , Campaign Mastery and Dungeon Mastering. The response was pretty overwhelming. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

The Pros and Cons Written by Agent X - 30 Comments Here’s a great slam-dunk post for you from my respected friend and international copywriting authority, Dean Rieck of Direct Creative and Pro Copy Tips. Copywriters can advance to Creative Director positions, for example. Enjoy – it’s a good one! Hell yeah Nice post.

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Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

All copywriters and graphic artists welcome. I’m now in the process of tweaking, rewriting, adding bonuses and doing a separate website to launch it in a big way mid-june. Even if I´m not one of your copywriter-followers I come here almost every day for good stuff, just because. ;D Thanks James!)

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Men With Pens

MARCH 11, 2010

And many online copywriters are thrilled to land a new blogging gig – so thrilled they rarely pause to wonder if writing for their client’s blog is really the best investment of that person’s marketing budget. You can spruce up the conversion rate of their existing site content and sales copy.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Big Chill Triggers Eagle Invasion Reply PM Hut ( @pmhut ) December 11, 2009 at 8:02 pm Hi James, As a Project Manager myself (and a someone running a Project Management website) I find that your definition of Project Management a bit oversimplified. At least I invoice upon submission of draft copy, so that’s not a worry.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Frank ( @[link] ) February 22, 2010 at 4:27 am I think it’s really interesting to look back at copy that you have written. As I work on a travel website, I’m literally travelling back in time to revisit different countries and remember my different experiences. Because words like that shouldn’t be forgotten forever.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

For example, you could redesign your website so it appeals to more clients and lessens your advertising costs. You could write new copy to draw readers in closer and get them hiring you more. Hire yourself, and assign yourself a project. Pick a project that will help further your success. Jodi Kaplan´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

People want to see your portfolio, your testimonials, and your professional-looking website. If you keep seeing clients come to your sales page and run off without buying, you probably want to take a class in writing killer sales copy that converts. Especially since no one cares about your degree. That’s right. You’re a freelancer.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

Prerequisite: you have a website. These techniques assume that you already have a website dedicated to your freelancing business. If you’re don’t have a website, what are you waiting for? Most people know that having a website is imperative for freelancers these days. Counter-intuitive but true.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

Queens Park Books Brighton Hiring for Website Project Reply Dev | Technshare ( @tnsblog ) May 27, 2010 at 6:34 am Hey Ali, These are some awesome points buddy. So far, I’ve never miss a deadline and I come up with a copy that my clients love. But it is a bug, and I love it and will always be addicted to it! Excellent post.

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Men With Pens

MAY 2, 2010

The ad copy on a box of CDs. Now imagine the web copy on your site. Not your blog; the part of your website that’s devoted to convincing your readers to buy your services. If you’re not telling your readers to go and look at that copy, it’s getting no more attention than the instructions on your toothpaste box.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

John writes the majority of the ad copy for Dragon Door, and he was talking to us – the new instructors, the front lines, the new faces of his marketing arm – about how to write so our audience would always understand us. &# And suddenly, I realized that I had to unlearn everything I knew about writing,&# John said.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 19, 2010

Without further ado, allow me to introduce The Princess Bride Guide to Copywriting. Use that to your advantage in your copy. If you use the wrong words as descriptors in your copy, it’s going to make you sound like an idiot – especially if you clearly think you have the right word. Like a NORMAL person.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Triplepeak – part 6 Reply Nabeel | Create Your First Website June 28, 2010 at 3:48 am Well I did read somewhere that the recommended hours to sleep are 6-8 Hours. I just blog this last month i guess and come across your website. Þórey Ómars´s last blog. And I do exactly that! I sleep between 6-8 Hours. And you’re right.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

I wrote web copy and ebooks and taglines and fiction and all kinds of writerly stuff. One of the greatest help to me in breaking through my stiff, “this is business’ muse was participating over at Creative Copy Challenge. I couldn’t write. Well, that’s not entirely true. I could write. Not blog posts, though.

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