The Copywriting Maven

For the past several weeks, I was quietly enjoying the steady stream of visitors sent to me by Wikipedia on their copywriting page. I had listed The Copywriting Maven as a resource of direct marketing copywriting tips and techniques and linked to my DM tips index page. All good info, no blatant "Hire Me" [...]

I had a blast talking shop with Michel Fortin, Ryan Healy,Tom Chandler on Mike Sansone and Wayne Hurlbert’s Nut’s and Blog Bolts on Blog Talk Radio yesterday evening. I’m told they had their biggest listening audience to date!
If you didn’t have the chance to catch last night’s program, you can download the mp3 version here.

Enjoyed [...]

Mike Sansone, co-moderator of Nut’s and Blog Bolts on Blog Talk Radio, invited me to appear as part of a copywriters panel at tomorrow evening’s show discussing social media tools. I’ll be joining Michel Fortin, Ryan Healy,Tom Chandler and fellow co-moderator, Wayne Hurlbert.
So go ahead, Tivo "Desperate Housewives" and join us starting at 8pm EDT. [...]

This week has been particularly busy. New clients, lots of work on tight deadlines. Lots of head time and long hours expended. It’s Friday, so now’s the perfect time for a little fun and distraction. Let me tell you about a cool new tool I just discovered.

Animated personal signatures created from your own handwriting.

Now [...]

I saw Seven Things a Self-Employed Writer
Should Know About Taxes by John Murray, CPA in the latest issue of Small Publishers Assn of North America’s newsletter and thought, as the weeks wind down toward April 15, that it did a nice job of covering the basics. So I’m sharing it here, too.
Here’s a quick summary. [...]