The Copywriting Maven

Just a quick note, Maven fans. I’m taking my first girl, now sweet 16, off to NYC (what, again?) to celebrate her special milestone and spend some mother-daughter time while she can still stand me.
See ya’ll next week.

Okay, here’s the sad news. I’m not going to the Final 4. Joanna Young’s Confident Writing cleaned the Maven’s proverbial clock in yesterday’s Game 25 at PoeWar.
But I’m not discouraged. Nosireebob. I’m stronger for it, and gosh darn it, I still like myself.
Mostly. ::sob::
While I pull myself together for the rest of the week and [...]

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I was heartened to see how many folks took the time to comment on my original post about holding firm to our value.
That’s why I think, perhaps anyway, we’ll find some small comfort in the knowledge that we are not alone in our endless effort to keep our value proposition from sliding [...]

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As the Maven fans know, I teach an online copywriting course for Accelerated Training Services. The course focuses primarily on novice copywriters - folks looking to make a career change or perhaps strengthen a marketing skill set or two.
One of the first assignments I have students students prepare is a short, 50-word [...]

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My good buddy, Tom Chandler at Copywriter Underground has generated a flurry of responses from other copywriter/writer colleagues in his post, Guess I Didn’t Want to Work For Free Badly Enough
It got me to thinking, because that’s what I do, about how do we maintain our value to our clients, current and [...]