Posts Tagged ‘humor’

Using humor in sales copy is OK. But I’d have done it this-a-way…

Friday, April 1st, 2011

I stumbled upon this page today. Here’s a screenshot of it: I hated it. Maybe I just need another coffee, but I found myself switching off in the first sentence. What’s wrong with it? There are quite a few things wrong here, and I’ll touch on a few of them, but the thing I want [...]

My brother-in-law doesn’t hate me after all. He just doesn’t want to be a copywriter.

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

My brother-in-law Phil has a real way with words. He’s also something of a stand-up comedian. So I’ve been at him to write freelance for me, but he keeps ignoring me. I thought it was simply ‘coz Paul Cunningham says I’m hard to work for, but it turns out he’s just not comfortable with the [...]

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