Comments on: How to write a blog post – in 12 easy steps

By: lyndon at SEO Packages

lyndon at SEO Packages — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:26:54 +0000

I have forwarded this on to a writer friend of mine

Thanks

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:21:26 +0000

Josh – I love your blog’s brand. Great name.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:18:31 +0000

Josh, glad the “do none’ appealed to you Seriously though, sometimes you write better when you use what you already know and let the ideas tumble out of your head. Of course, that works better with blog posts than it does with term papers, dissertations and scientific papers….

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:16:08 +0000

Alex – glad you enjoyed the post. I’ll do an article as you suggest in the near future (though please be patient – I’m not one of those folk that blogs ten times a day). When I discuss photos in the post, there’s a link to an excellent article by Skelliewag which is well worth reading. Everything I know about finding photos, I learnt from that post.
As for quotes and stuff, I’m largely just using stuff that’s bubbling around in my head, some of it from decades ago, some it from things I read last week, or yesterday.

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:35:37 +0000

Simon, you can’t ask that question to an English Major: I immediately thought of Aramis:) “Do none” as applied to research is probably the best thing I’ve read today!

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:32:44 +0000

Another thought.Do you think in the future you could elaborate a bit on how to find the quality resources for the hook? (pictures, quotes , videos) Is it all just about the keywords or are there other elements involved?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:26:27 +0000

Man ! You can really exactly pin what the newbie writer should be focusing on. I think I’ve read similar pointers in a bunch of different places but nothing I read so far explained it so clearly. Thanks!

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:07:34 +0000

Thanks Mits, glad you’re finding it useful. Copywriting is all about writing the copy – or words – used in advertising and marketing. A lot of people think of copywriting as writing those direct response pages you see all over the internet – the real hard sell stuff. But it’s actually much broader than that. It includes writing all sorts of things such as websites and brochures, direct mail, adverts, newsletters and so on. At the moment I’m writing a sustainability report for a multinational food company, which is hundreds of pages long. So there’s lots of variety. It’s a tough field to break into though, and lots of people trying their hand at it.

By: Mits

Mits — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:51:14 +0000

By the way, what exactly is copy-writing? It actually sounds like a cool job

By: Mits

Mits — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:44:57 +0000

Man, you have an awesome blog simon. Articles like these will really help me out. Thanks aka Beginner