🇺🇦 Eddie Shleyner

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Not doing your job?
 
One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite shows, 𝘔𝘢𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘯, is about creativity and productivity: 
 
It opens with Don Draper, creative director, talking to his ad agency’s financial chief, Lane Pryce. Lane is complaining about the copywriters: they’re not being productive in the creative lounge. They’re napping, socializing, playing darts. 
 
Don looks at him: “We do this better than you,” he says. “And part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive… 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦.” 
 
Let's unpack this comment: 
 
Creativity boils down to putting old things together in new ways, which is a two-step process: 
 
1/ get knowledge and experiences 
2/ make unexpected connections 
 
But usually, you can’t force a connection. Usually, you need to 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘹 it out by doing something unrelated, something distracting. 
 
Like napping. 
Like socializing. 
Like playing darts. 
 
These things 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮 unproductive, yeh, but they’re not. 
 
Because while these things distract your conscious mind, your subconscious will continue working, incubating, processing your knowledge and experiences until a random sequence of synapses fires off in your frontal cortex: 
 
And you have a moment of clarity. 
And connect disparate things. 
And then you blurt out: 
 
“Hey, that’s interesting!” 
 
And your colleague looks up and says, “What?” 
 
And you lean back and say, “Well, what if…” 
 
And then you’re off to the races. 
 
“You’re often most creative," says artist Austin Kleon, "when you’re the least productive.” 
 
Don Draper agrees: whether you work in copywriting or any other creative discipline, part of your job is not doing your job. 

yeh?

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Do this to develop your copywriting voice: 
 
"Ed," he said. "Close the door. Have a seat." 
 
I closed the door and sat down. My editor sat across from me. Days earlier, he hired me. It was my first copywriting job. I was a year out of school. 
 
"I read your draft," he said. "It’s good—" 
 
"Thanks." 
 
"—for an English major, I mean, nice and flowery,” he said. “But you're not in college anymore—” 
 
I didn’t speak. 
 
“You're a professional copywriter now,” he held up my contract. 
 
I didn’t speak. 
 
"I guess I saw this coming,” he said, “based on your samples.” He pursed his lips. “You know, you can't write like this anymore, all long-winded, like you're some Alexandre fuggin’ Doo-mah—" 
 
I sat there, blinking, bracing myself. 
 
"You’re a copywriter," he said, "copywriters keep it tight." He pressed a key on his laptop. "I just sent you an email," he said. “Please read it.” 
 
I went back to my desk and opened my email. There it was: 
 
𝘌𝘥, 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘥𝘰. 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺. 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦: 
 
In his email, my editor included links to classic sales letters by several direct-response icons, including Gary Bencivenga, Gary Halbert, and John Caples. He asked me to transcribe these letters by hand. 
 
Transcribing another writer's work is called 𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 — and it will help you internalize the writer’s syntax and diction, her punctuation and cadence, her voice: it’s all there for the taking. You just have to slow down to absorb it. 
 
(And it's not just for copywriters: Jack London and Hunter S. Thompson and Ben Franklin all copyworked their writing heroes, too.) 
 
“Do you understand why I’m asking you to do this?” 
 
I looked up. My editor was standing there, leaning on my cubicle wall. 
 
“Yeh,” I said. “I understand.” 
 
“You have to be more concise,” he said. “You write like a water hose,” he said, “I need you to be a nail gun." 
 
I nodded. “So," I said, "by hand?” 
 
“Yes,” he said. “If you type it, you’ll go too fast. It defeats the purpose.” 
 
So I did. 
 
Want to develop your copywriting voice? 
 
Transcribe the greats by hand, slowly, meticulously, over and over. 
 
And soon, your work will sound great, too.

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𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬: 
 
Whatever your politics, it’s impossible to deny Barack Obama’s communication prowess. 
 
He’s a magnificent storyteller, and as fine a writer as they come. And in the preface of his memoir, 𝘈 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥, Obama shares how he writes first drafts: 
 
“I only write longhand,” he explains, “computer word processors give the first draft too much polish, and more opportunity to make half-baked ideas tidy enough to appear passable.” 
 
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿. 
 
I recognized the sentiment, though I’d never fully acknowledged it in my own process: 
 
I don’t write longhand (my hand cramps) but I write on my phone a lot, using one finger, 𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨. In fact, almost every idea, note, and yes, first draft I've ever produced for VeryGoodCopy have been written on my phone, in a Google doc, pecking away, slow and steady, 𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘬-𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘬-𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘬. 
 
Writing this way — with a self-imposed physical restriction — forces me to be thoughtful and intentional and rational about every word, every punctuation mark, everything I put down. When I’m on my phone, the idea is expressed slowly, methodically, unlike when I’m typing on a keyboard at 60 words per minute and everything is suddenly there and seemingly right. 
 
Writing slow is thinking slow, which, according to Nobel Prize winner, Daniel Kahneman, is how we 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 be thinking if we want clear, coherent thoughts. 
 
And what’s good copy if it’s not clear and coherent? 
 
𝗧𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹, 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬. 
 
And to write slow, create bottlenecks between your thoughts and the words you put on the page, especially when writing a first draft: 
 
Write longhand. 
Write with one finger. 
Write with physical restrictions. 
 
𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲, 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬. 
 
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When to use cliches in your (copy)writing:

They say cliches will make your writing feel tired and tacky, unoriginal. Avoid them, they say.

Well I promise you they’re referring to literary or journalistic writing. Novels, news articles, magazine columns. Not direct-response marketing designed to compel action.

Some proof: 

A copywriter named Richard Dennis once analyzed every sales letter by the late, great Gary Halbert, the “Prince of Print” — one of the most original direct-response minds of the 20th century — and he found these cliches and idioms used again and again:
- “easy as pie”
- “sacred cow”
- “the real McCoy”
- “needed as a pen”
- “speak of the devil”
- “naked as a jaybird”
- “open and shut case”
- “in the heat of battle”
- “let sleeping dogs lie”
- “red carpet treatment”
- “out of sight, out of mind”
- “make a clean breast of it”
- “blood is thicker than water”
- “every Tom, Dick, and Harry”
- “work your fingers to the bone.”
- “a picture is worth a thousand words”
- “kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.”
- “as common as sawdust around a sawmill.”

Halbert used cliches and idioms constantly. 

But he rarely used clever turns of phrase. Because why risk it? Why risk making The Reader stop and think, even if only for a second? Every time The Reader stops to “get it” you could lose her attention forever. 

Unlike clever writing, colloquial expressions build a bridge to comprehension by making your copy more efficient, by helping you use fewer words to make a clear point. 

Cliches and idioms are tools for solving a specific communication problem. 

Use them as necessary, I say.

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Take the weekend:

“Never send a letter or a memo on the day you write it,” said copywriter David Ogilvy. “Read it aloud the next morning,” he said, “and then edit it."

Because it’s easy to get too close to your writing, too familiar and comfortable. So distance yourself from your work to regain objectivity, to ensure your message is accurate, and clear.

Take the weekend.

Leave the words. They’ll be there when you’re back, unchanged. But you—your attitude, your perspective—will be different.

And this will make a difference.

One of the best exercises you can do as a copywriter is synthesize longer writing into shorter writing. 
 
Because—and this is almost always true—if you can rewrite something to say the same thing in fewer words, you’ve made the work better. 
 
And a great place to practice is Wikipedia. 
 
Try this: 
 
Rewrite a Wikipedia paragraph to a third of its original length (e.g., edit ~150 words down to ~50 words) without sacrificing the meaning. This is an ultra-effective exercise because concision is already baked into Wikipedia’s publication rules, which state: 
 
“Articles should use only necessary words. This does not mean using fewer words is always better; rather, when considering equivalent expressions, choose the more concise.” 
 
In other words, the platform already has a strict no-fluff policy—and that’s what makes this exercise so good. Editing an already-concise paragraph for brevity demands hypersensitivity to syntax, to sentence structure, to the weight of each word. 
 
It puts your Editor Brain into overdrive, forcing a mindset so unnatural, you’ll walk away from each exercise a markedly more concise writer. 
 
𝘛𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘵. 
 
Do it once a day, five days a week for a month, and your writing will drastically improve. Do it once a day, five days a week for 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳, and the quality of your writing will surpass that of most professional copywriters. 

Need an example? 
 
I synthesized this paragraph from HubSpot’s Wikipedia page:

Writing is 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 
Editing is 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨. 
 
You can't do both at once. You can't simultaneously push and pull. 
 
So pick one, and focus all of your energy on it. You’ll be more productive. 

yeh?

Time illuminates the details. 
Details give way to connections. 
And connections are the basis of creativity, a cornerstone of copywriting.

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To be a good copywriter:

Writing and ADHD:

“Hello,” said the nurse.

“Hi,” I said.

We were in school. There was a bed and curtain in the corner.

“What hurts?”

“Nothing.”

“What’s wrong?”

“I dunno,” I said. “I can’t focus.” I told her I zone out when I read. “It’s like my brain is reading but I’m somewhere else—” I said. “𝘍𝘢𝘳.”

“Oh,” she said. “And what do you think about?”

I looked at the bed in the corner.

“Are you anxious?”

I was sleepy. The bed looked good.

“𝘌𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘦—”

I snapped back.

“Are you anxious?”

Years later, I still go Far.

Mostly when I’m tired or bored or overwhelmed. And sometimes it’s to my detriment. It’s frustrating, painful.

But other times, it’s helpful:

As a copywriter I brainstorm. I just sit there and think about a problem. And when I do, if I go Far, I lean into it, and embrace the randomness—and then connections happen, and ideas come out. Most are bad or half-baked but that’s fine. Because it’s a numbers game. Because the more bad ideas you have the more good ones you’ll get.

Sometimes they come so fast I get a high, a rush, part excitement and part relief that it’s there, in front of me, the thing, the idea! It’s there! 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵!

I have it.

And I’m glad I do.

“I’m not anxious,” I said. “I’m just thinking.”

Yeh, years later, I’m glad I have it.

How did you write it?

“Bless The Telephone” is a song by Labi Siffre. He sings it with such tenderness:

~———
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯
𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭
𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘸𝘰
𝘐'𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶

𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺 "𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰"
𝘈𝘯𝘥 "𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶?
𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶"
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰
𝘈𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰
𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶

𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺
𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺
𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘺
𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦
𝘉𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦
~———

“How did you write it?” said the interviewer.

“Bless The Telephone”?

“Mhm, yes.”

“Well, I was in my hotel room after a gig…and the phone rang,” said Labi, “and we talked for about half an hour…and then I sat on the bed…and I wrote the song.”

I was so happy to come across this origin story, this example of a creative person using “the moment” as it were—the energy within it—to make something good and honest, something timeless:

"And to find, after all this time," said Labi, "that the song still helps, I'm pleased about that...'cause love is a wonderful thing."

I think Labi was successful, in part, because he did not hesitate.

He didn’t let the moment cool. The tenderness he felt after that call was available to him right then and there—and he captured it. A day later it would have become a memory of tenderness rather than tenderness itself. This distinction matters: he wrote from inside the feeling, not about it.

Labi didn't hesitate before writing.

Perhaps, neither should you.

This morning, I a/b tested these 2 subject lines for my copywriting newsletter:

———
a) AI really saved me here:
b) How I’m using AI (example):
———

Which one sounds more compelling to you? Which one are you more likely to open? Feel free to share your reason(s) in the comments 🙏🏼

Thank you!

For the interested...this is the body of the newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gcCy5vpj

Here are two subject lines for a copywriting newsletter: which one sounds more compelling to you? Which one are you more likely to open?

Two article headlines. No context. Which one sounds more compelling to you? Which one are you more likely to click:

———
a) Watch this to write better:
b) Read this to write better:
———

Feel free to share your reason(s) in the comments 🙏🏼 

Thank you!

Two article headlines. (See above.) No context. Which one sounds more compelling to you? Which one are you more likely to click?

Pictured (in slide 2) is my former Creative team, part of G2's 35-person Marketing department...

From left to right: Lishen, me, Maia, Laura.

I miss working with these folks, but I'm glad for everything I learned during my time with them...

Enjoy!

Copywriting innovations:

Work with me? More info here: 


https://lnkd.in/gwQDQH8p


Thanks for considering!

"The ugly thing in a world of beauty stands out." ~ Eugene Schwartz

Do you think this "ugly" landing page I created is converting MORE or LESS than 5% of visitors: https://lnkd.in/gvbgJyjY 

Feel free to share why you think so in the comments...
Or ask me anything about the page, my creative decisions, etc. 

Thanks!

Inside:

✅ Even good copywriters commit ​this typical landing page mistake​, making it incredibly difficult to achieve a high conversion rate. ​
➜ see lesson A3

✅ ​This “ideal landing page”​ is your transformational blueprint: use it with the companion template (clearly labeled, color-coordinated, and presented side-by-side) so you’ll never need to guess when formatting a landing page. ​
➜ see lesson C2 + C3

✅ For decades, marketers have been utterly derailed by this research mistake. But there's a lesser known and more effective (not to mention easier) way to ​deeply understand your audience​. 
​➜ see lesson D1

✅ ​“Truth Serum” interviews​: use this 2-step technique to keep customers talking, sharing honest and often original insights about your product or service (things no AI could reveal). ​
➜ see lesson D6

✅ The most important section of your landing page has ​these 6 essential elements​, each with its own specific purpose to fulfill. (Complete breakdown inside.) ​
➜ see lesson E1

✅ ​This mechanism is like “conversion insurance” for your landing page​—designed specifically for on-the-fence prospects, you can use it to reliably capture emails for your nurturing and re-marketing campaigns. ​
➜ see lesson E6

✅ ​Want to book more demo calls?​ Use this step-by-step process to create your demo-request page. ​
➜ see lesson G4

✅ How to ​basically “force” your landing page visitors to read your copy​. (Don’t worry, people actually enjoy this—and even welcome it.) ​
➜ see lesson H6

✅ How to “program” your brain (or AI) to quickly and repeatedly write compelling hooks for headlines, subject lines, fascinations, etc. using ​my unique, 3-step process:​ I hold nothing back, demonstrating each step against 18 clear examples. (Plus...I share a template you can use to visually and systematically develop this skill until it’s like second nature.) 
​➜ see lesson I1

✅ ​18 “fascination filters”​ you can apply to basically any piece of information (as long as it’s valuable to your market) to create irresistible headlines, subheads, email subject lines, and more. ​
➜ see lesson I4

✅ Instant credibility: properly leveraging this evolutionary trait (present in all humans) can ​make people immediately trust your claims​—without even reading all of your copy. ​
➜ see lesson L3

✅ ​4 ways to reliably “manufacture” urgency​ on your landing page, creating offers that compel visitors to act much faster. (In some cases, these techniques will even create a feeding frenzy the moment you launch your campaign.) ​
➜ see lesson M1

✅ Give me 5 minutes and I’ll give you ​the testing strategy that helped Eugene Schwartz sell over $100M per year in books​. (Yes, it’s absolutely transferable to landing pages.) ​
➜ see Module 9: Introduction

And much, much more…

Enjoy 86 video "micro" lessons across 9 modules and 2.5 hours of video and start compelling more landing page visitors to buy, download, or subscribe:

John Harrison ⚛

Copywriting.io

I use my battle tested writing frameworks to help businesses launch and sell their products.

* I write high converting web copy, landing pages, sales funnels, and emails
* I help businesses work out how best to present their value proposition
* I write user focused copy

Clients include:

* napo.pet
* smarterrent.com
* red-on-line.com
* zerodown.lease
* boltenergyservices.com

Freelance Copywriter

Penfriend

I'm Co-Founder and Head of Copy at Penfriend. Using AI we generate high quality blog articles based on a proven content strategy that's delivered £36.1M in client revenue.

Co Founder

Wayhome

I was employee #15 and part of the core team that launched Wayhome, a financial services company innovating in the property space with £500 million of institutional capital. As the only words person I sat across product, marketing, and operations writing web copy, emails, landing pages, forms, customer comms, internal guides, and pretty much everything else that needed words.

* I wrote email campaigns with 65%+ unique open rates and 7%+ unique click through rates
* I defined our value proposition, which led to us finding product-market fit 
* I led user research projects to reveal insights about our customers
* I led product focused projects set by senior leadership and exec 
* I trained the company to write well through style, content, tone, and voice guidance
* I wrote FCA compliant copy

Copywriter

Jenny Schwarz

Jenny Schwarz is the menswear label I co-founded in 2011. It was my baptism of fire in entrepreneurship in, arguably, one of the most competitive industries to launch a new business. In 2015 I raised a £77,000 angel investment for the company.

I created a strong, unique positioning in an extremely crowded market. 'Rugged Elegance' was the identity and narrative that grew from the brand's historical influences in Jenny's Great-Grandfather who was a bespoke tailor and an adventurer. 

Copywriting experience:

•	Created and iterated the branded, digital experience on JennySchwarz.com.
•	Managed social media across multiple platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.
•	Wrote press releases, articles for magazines and Q&A for fashion publications.
•	Maintained the company journal, delivering unique content on a daily basis. 
•	Wrote the business plan that secured the company £77,000 of angel investment.
•	Managed all the communication with third-parties including distributors, manufacturers, PR companies, sales agents, journalists and customers. 

Jenny Schwarz has shown collections at London Collections: Men, in Paris and at Vienna Fashion Week attracting clients including Graham Norton, Travis Fimmel, Brooklyn Beckham, Imagine Dragons, Kings of Leon, The Script, Gary Numan, Marlon Wayans, Kasabian, Labrinth, David Gandy and Conor Maynard.
 
Our garments have been featured in GQ, Gay Times, Wonderland, Vogue China and on the cover of LA Fashion Magazine.

Director

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Do you know how to persuade? 
How to be concise? 
Or engaging? 
Or clear? 

Can you justify every single word in your copy?

Or is copywriting still a mystery?

Perhaps you're

+ struggling with low conversions?
+ nervous about pressing publish
+ hesitant about pressing send?
+ tired of bad copy costing you money?
+ failing to captivate your customers?

There's a logical reason for it, and it's not your fault.

School taught you terribly.

Actually, it's worse.

They taught you the exact opposite of what you need to know today.

7 ways school screwed you over:

1/ Not taught how to persuade or convince
2/ Not taught to consider the purpose of writing
3/ Not shown what could be edited
4/ Feedback was vague like "be more descriptive"
5/ Taught to see writing as a cReAtIvE pursuit
6/ Grammar was obsessed or glossed over
7/ Rewarded for hitting an arbitrary word count 

Whether you know it or not, you're fighting years of that bad training. 

So now:

1/ You can’t effectively make your point
2/ Your writing is unfocused 
3/ Your message is unnecessarily cluttered
4/ Your writing lacks insight
5/ Your writing rarely achieves anything
6/ Your writing is either rigid or unstructured
7/ Your quantity kills your quality 

Reputation, damaged.
Opportunity, hindered.
Ideas, muted.

Everything is at risk.

Because words are everything. 
They’re how we make things happen. 
Or not.

And if you don’t learn how to write well:

1. You’re relying on guesses and luck
2. Other people will out-write you

+ They’ll get your client
+ They’ll make your money
+ They’ll have your freedom
+ They’ll land your dream job
+ They’ll enjoy your pay rise
+ They’ll launch your business
+ They’ll become the authority
+ They’ll secure your investment
+ They’ll convince your customers
+ They’ll persuade your prospects

They'll dictate your future by better controlling the tools of communication. Words.

It's as simple as this:

You get cash when your reader:

+ can make decisions
+ because they understand
+ because you made it clear

The better the copy, the more money you'll make.

I can help you control words.

And well enough to dictate your future, by writing it into existence. 

I’ve spent 10,000+ hours copywriting and nearly 550 hours condensing what I’ve learned into my copywriting guide. 

Be concise
Be convincing

Be powerful
Be persuasive

John Harrison

I’ve become obsessed with a strange little corner of the internet and it’s inspired a small side project.

Every day, thousands of .com domain names quietly expire.

Not because the ideas are bad, but because the owner forgot to renew, shut the business down, rebranded, or just moved on. But those domains don’t become immediately available to the general public. They go into expiring auctions that very few people know about.

Buried in the mess of long, ugly, hard-to-spell domains, there are gems that already look and feel like real businesses.

Names like YachtWeddings (dot) com, ArtAdvisor (dot) com, BusinessDebtRelief (dot) com, and SmartPatient (dot) com.

These names give their owners an unfair business advantage:

They turn more visitors into leads and customers.

They look and feel more legit, so people trust you faster.

They act as a built-in pitch, so every ad, cold email, and landing page has less work to do.

They make paid acquisition cheaper and easier to test.

They even leave you with a valuable asset, if the project doesn’t work out.

But here’s the catch:

New lists every day, thousands of names at a time, and once a good one is gone, it’s usually gone for good or only comes back at a much higher price.

Most builders don’t have the time or appetite to dig through all of that every day.

So I built BusinessReadyDomains (dot) com.

Once a day I send a short email with a handful of expiring .com domains that already read like serious businesses.

I focus on two types of names:

1) Exact-match domains  

Names that say exactly what the business does, for example: MiamiAutos (dot) com and LocalElectrician (dot) com  

2) Brandable domains with an obvious use  

Names that sound like a company from day one, while still being clear about what they do, for example: NextLoan (dot) com and SimpleBankruptcy (dot) com  

This is for founders, builders, and entrepreneurs who are actively looking for their next business and like the idea of letting the right domain be the starting point.

The daily email is free and takes about 30 seconds to read.

If you want a steady stream of .coms that already look and feel like real businesses, I’ll drop the link in the comments…

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