by Mike Beeson | Jan 22, 2013 | advertising, advertising copywriting, copywriters, copywriting, copywriting-techniques, financial copywriters, financial copywriting, financial marketing, freelance copywriter
This has to be the hypothetical question of the year – and it’s still only January as I write! Can you name even ONE ‘big’ financial copywriter? Even more to the point – most people would struggle to come up with more than a couple of copywriters who... Read more...
by Mike Beeson | Nov 11, 2012 | advertising, copywriting, copywriting-techniques, marketing, online marketing, Penguin Update, SEO, SEO copywriting, SEO techniques, seo-services
Has your business become over-reliant on Google when it comes to online copywriting and marketing? Should you be shifting some of your online focus and re-balancing it with more offline activity? With all the changes that have taken place at the search engine over... Read more...
by Mike Beeson | Jun 23, 2012 | advertising, advertising copywriting, copywriting, copywriting-techniques
The whole point of this hour-long Google-led video is to show how modern technology can be combined with traditional techniques to create amazing digital advertising by ‘re-imagining’ work from the past. This was achieved using the simple but inspired... Read more...
by Mike Beeson | Jun 22, 2012 | advertising, aida, copywriting
Students of advertising and marketing will be mightily familiar with AIDA – she whose initials could catch your eye, inflame your desire and then coax you into action. But is the concept of ATTENTION-INTEREST-DESIRE-ACTION still alive… and should advertising... Read more...
by Mike Beeson | May 24, 2012 | advertising, copywriting, marketing
‘Persuasion’ has always been something of a dirty word in marketing circles. From Vance Packard’s coyly-titled 60s classic ‘The Hidden Persuaders’ (and concerns about ‘subliminal advertising’) to mining the dirty tricks... Read more...