Thursday, February 08, 2007

Not all good advice is good


An article for small business caught my eye in this morning’s paper.

It offered 10 tips on how to get a marketing effort up and running for minimal cost.

Tip seven interested me the most as it was about writing copy.

It argued that copywriting is something best done in house.

Judging by the piece above that I tore out of the paper I’d have to disagree.

“Your best copyrighters are in-house.”

That may be so, but your best spellers are obviously not.

This following snippet shows that copyrighters don’t even bother to read their own copy.

“Transcribe that they say and you will find key words and ‘nuggets’ what you are looking for.”

Hmmm!?

Perhaps it might be best to leave copywriting to copywriters.

3 Comments:

Anonymous amber said...

agreed! additionally, it's also smart to hire one with a filthy mind, to avoid those weird lines that can be taken completely the wrong (funnier) way. A filthy-minded copywriter will catch all those right away.

12:08 pm  
Blogger Mansi said...

so true! I have "objects" from every trip, every movie and every memory. I haven't stopped collecting.
and hey, i bookmarked you. Your blog is so interesting.

1:21 pm  
Blogger newplanet said...

That is terrific! Well, I suppose it could have been worse. "They" could have made the same spelling mistake AND used the Comic Sans font while they were at it. Thank heavens for small mercies!

10:03 pm  

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