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Real estate agents produce a lot of written content, and as a real estate copywriter, I love getting their marketing material in my mailbox. It’s always great as a homeowner to know how the local market is doing in my Central Coast suburb. But as a real estate copywriter, I sometimes see real estate copywriting […]

If you are a real estate agent, then the chances are that you write your property listings by yourself. Maybe you love using your writing skills to write persuasive copy that sells a house. Or perhaps it’s an area of your job that you loathe but still must do. If that’s the case, you can […]

Are you guilty of using weasel words in your marketing copy? What are weasel words you ask? If you’ve ever heard a politician (ScoMo and Albo I’m looking at you) try to answer a journalist’s question with a lot of jargon, then you’ve heard weasel words in action. Weasel words are words or phrases used […]

When I first started learning how to write website copy in one of my first marketing roles, I had no idea of all it involved. I learned pretty quickly that writing for the web is not the same as writing for print. For starters, there’s a lot of competition out there from other websites. So […]

When I tell people that I’m a copywriter, nine times out of ten they ask “What’s a copywriter?” Or they think my job has something to do with copyrighting. The truth is that I didn’t even realise I was a copywriter until many years into my marketing career. I was simply a marketing person who […]

If you’re starting a new business or you have a business website that has a blog section, you might be asking yourself “Do I really need a business blog?” While it’s tempting to file blogging for your business into the too hard basket, there are so many benefits to creating and maintaining a regular business […]