Write More, Sell More

Write More, Sell More
Author: Robert W. Bly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 9780898798166

You'll Learn effective strategies for optimizing every aspect of your writing business. With Bly's proven advice you can: develop highly efficient work habits; reach better-paying markets; craft queries and proposals that get you the best deals; and generate referrals, repeat business, reprints and resales. The sample book proposals, contracts, query letters and promotional brochures included in this book will help you expand your skills, run a solid business and get more clients.

Indies Unlimited: Authors' Snarkopaedia

Indies Unlimited: Authors' Snarkopaedia
Author: K. S. Brooks
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781480213425

In Volume One of the Authors' Snarkopaedia, sentences have been painstakingly crafted together using nouns, verbs and other words, bringing you paragraphs of text. These paragraphs flow into pages of expert tips, advice and insight for authors at all levels of the publication food chain. Any book can claim to offer this type of information, but they can't give you what sets the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia above the rest: the "je ne sais squat" of the high decorated staff of the Snarkology Department at the Indies Unlimited Online Academy. Their groundbreaking and empirical research over the years sheds new and snarkified light on subjects ranging from book publishing and marketing to the nuts and bolts of writing and technology. If you like information to grab you by the throat and smack you in the face, the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia is the reference book for you.

How to Write Copy That Sells

How to Write Copy That Sells
Author: Ray Edwards
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1630475025

Communicate with potential customers—and persuade them to buy: “The best copywriting teacher I know.” —Michael Hyatt, New York Times–bestselling author of Your Best Year Ever This book is for everyone who needs to write copy that sells—including copywriters, freelancers, and entrepreneurs. Writing copy that sells without seeming “salesy” can be tough, but is an essential skill. How to Write Copy That Sells offers tips for crafting powerful, effective headlines and bullet points, reveals the secrets of product launch copy, and supplies specific copywriting techniques for: email marketing websites social media direct mail traditional media ads, and more “Ray invites you into his inner sanctum where he opens his real-life copywriting toolkit . . . Get this book!” —Judith Sherven, PhD, and Jim Sniechowski, PhD, bestselling authors of The Heart of Marketing

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t
Author: Steven Pressfield
Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-06-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1936891506

There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this: NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T. Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional. From Chapter Four: “When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with ev­ery sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?

How to Write Sales Letters That Sell

How to Write Sales Letters That Sell
Author: Drayton Bird
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780749438760

The right piece of direct mail can produce excellent response rates and have an extraordinary effect on business. But why do some sale letters achieve spectacular results whilst others are instantly consigned to the bin? This book reveals the secrets of creating successful sales letters. Containing examples of real sales letters, it includes plenty of advice on what to avoid as well as what to include. Key topics are covered such as: the secrets of persuasion; planning a letter which will get replies; creating offers that get responses and timing mailings for maximum effect.

Write to Sell : The Ultimate Guide to Copywriting

Write to Sell : The Ultimate Guide to Copywriting
Author: Andy Maslen
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2019-07-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814868434

How do you persuade someone to buy from you just by writing to them? What does effective copywriting look like – and sound like? Write to Sell has the answers! Read this book and you’ll learn: The confidence and skills to write better copy New ways to gain readers’ attention, respect and trust Hints and tips on turning selling skills into copywriting skills Simple techniques to improve the readability of your copy The impact of design and layout on copywriting The meaning of good written English – the rules you must follow, the rules you can safely ignore

The Copywriter's Handbook

The Copywriter's Handbook
Author: Robert W. Bly
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1429900156

The classic guide to copywriting, now in an entirely updated third edition This is a book for everyone who writes or approves copy: copywriters, account executives, creative directors, freelance writers, advertising managers . . . even entrepreneurs and brand managers. It reveals dozens of copywriting techniques that can help you write ads, commercials, and direct mail that are clear, persuasive, and get more attention—and sell more products. Among the tips revealed are • eight headlines that work—and how to use them • eleven ways to make your copy more readable • fifteen ways to open a sales letter • the nine characteristics of successful print ads • how to build a successful freelance copywriting practice • fifteen techniques to ensure your e-mail marketing message is opened This thoroughly revised third edition includes all new essential information for mastering copywriting in the Internet era, including advice on Web- and e-mail-based copywriting, multimedia presentations, and Internet research and source documentation, as well as updated resources. Now more indispensable than ever, The Copywriter's Handbook remains the ultimate guide for people who write or work with copy. "I don't know a single copywriter whose work would not be improved by reading this book." —David Ogilvy

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Author: Martin Kleppmann
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 658
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1491903104

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate this diverse landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. Peer under the hood of the systems you already use, and learn how to use and operate them more effectively Make informed decisions by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of different tools Navigate the trade-offs around consistency, scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built Peek behind the scenes of major online services, and learn from their architectures

How to Write and Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit

How to Write and Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit
Author: Robert W. Bly
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1610350200

Packed with income-generating ideas about creating a variety of saleable written works, this guide includes information for researching and writing effective, instructional materials and calling upon a variety of publishing channels, including magazines, traditional book publishers, self-publishing, and the Internet. The mechanics behind becoming a successful writer and information packager are presented in this resource that explores how to write and sell simple information in multiple formats, allowing writers to turn specialized knowledge into money-making books and products.

The Story Grid

The Story Grid
Author: Shawn Coyne
Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2015-05-02
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1936891360

WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what works better and fix what's not. The Story Grid breaks down the component parts of stories to identify the problems. And finding the problems in a story is almost as difficult as the writing of the story itself (maybe even more difficult). The Story Grid is a tool with many applications: 1. It will tell a writer if a Story ?works? or ?doesn't work. 2. It pinpoints story problems but does not emotionally abuse the writer, revealing exactly where a Story (not the person creating the Story'the Story) has failed. 3. It will tell the writer the specific work necessary to fix that Story's problems. 4. It is a tool to re-envision and resuscitate a seemingly irredeemable pile of paper stuck in an attic drawer. 5. It is a tool that can inspire an original creation.