Scrabble players understand this only too well: some letters are worth more than others. Even Countdown viewers know that you need a good balance of vowels and consonants to make a decent word. Recently fans of Walkers Crisps discovered that three particular letters –...
Why bother? If you care, you’ll check. So let’s start at the beginning: you’ve written something magnificent and you want to publish it right away. But wait; haste is your enemy. Give it a few more minutes and you’ll be publishing a much cleaner...
We copywriters like a good board game – especially a solitary one. Complements our lack of social skills. But that’s not the point of this page. This is a trumpet-blowing exercise to show how good I am at writing instruction manuals for anything from building a...
At Text Wizard Copywriting, I style headlines in what’s known as sentence case (example above). It’s simple and clean. Another popular style is called title case. I’m not a fan of title case because it’s difficult to apply consistently. There...
If your copy is sparky enough to win new customers, it has value. And that makes it worth stealing. I know this because one of my copywriting clients (a driving school) had its home-page copy stolen by five other driving schools. But that’s another story. This...