Baby Steps: It just takes practice to hone your craft
The other day I made a new connection on LinkedIn. He is a young man, working in an adjunct industry to mine, interested in moving into the world of copywriting. After a bit of chatter back and forth he asked me for advice on how to learn all he would need to become a copywriter.
The other day someone in my Organic & Authentic Business Strategies Group asked this question, “What do you tell your clients when they claim to have writers block?”
Besides writing commercially (copywriting and journalism) I write fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, poetry and I blog. Except for in the movies and for the fact that I just finished reading Stephen King’s Bag of Bones (which is all about this topic — and of course, ghosts), I’ve never experienced, “Writer’s Block,” in my life. Continue reading
If you’re a small business owner (writers this means you too!) looking to DIY your online marketing solution, the amount of information you’re faced with daily, in terms of marketing and web 3.0 technologies, is overwhelming. It can be difficult for the layman or beginner, to know what information is helpful and what is just plain unnecessary.
Because of that, and because I cannot possible tackle all these topics myself and still have time to write for folks like you, I’ve decided to post a sort “Best of,” blog from time to time. I do this in the hopes of helping you parse the available information out there into something convenient, useable and easy to implement. Continue reading