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9 Must-Follow Copywriting Tips for Creating Stellar Copy

Make a Living Writing

Website copy Almost all businesses today, small, medium, big, even solopreneurs have a website. With websites, you’re writing marketing copy. Those welcome emails you get when you sign up for a newsletter are a common type of email copy. Copy will vary for these posts depending on the platform the client wants to post on.

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7 steps to writing great copy according to Joseph Sugarman

Credible Content

Step-by-step guide to writing better copy. Joseph Sugarman is one of the greatest direct marketing copywriters who started his mail-order business JS&A and sold multiple revolutionary products by publishing long ad copies that converted like crazy. There were less distractions when Joseph Sugarman wrote his copy.

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How Bad Publishers Hurt Authors

Jane Friedman

My second novel was going to be published! When New York City–based Adelaide Books offered me a contract to publish Painting Through the Dark , it set my heart racing in a good way. I asked around—friends who were published authors, others with knowledge of independent publishing. It was the end of August 2020.

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I wrote and published a Kindle book in one weekend, with GPT-4.

Nick Ursborne

I’ve been using GPT as a brainstorming buddy, a research assistant, a first draft copy and content writer, a social media writer… and more. This time I asked GPT-4 to write me a 40-page Kindle book I could publish on Amazon. Homework #5 is to write a blog post on this exact topic. The book was published on Sunday evening.

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Is It Safe to Copy and Repost a Blog Article to My Website?

Content Powered

One of the most common questions I get from people, including clients and prospective clients, is whether or not it's okay to copy content from elsewhere and post it as a blog article on their site. Three Methods of Copying Content Now let's look at the three scenarios I see most often for copying content. Let's dig in!

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How to Become A Copy Editor (Even As A Beginner)

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Looking to get into the writing and editing industry, but not sure if you should become a copy editor? Proofreading and copy editing both fall under the umbrella of editing, and if you like to edit work you might end up doing both. However, copy editing requires its own set of skills and rules, which we will cover in this article.

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Lessons from 23 Years as a Self-Publishing Novelist

Jane Friedman

Photo by karina zhukovskaya Note from Jane: In the earliest days of my career, I served as managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, and one of the nicest parts of my job was calling up winners of our writing contests, including the National Self-Published Book Awards. My dream of literary stardom had cost them plenty.

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