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Guess What People Are Thinking, and They’ll Mistske You For Their Own Mind.

By Colin Theriot / February 5, 2024

“Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.” – Robert Peel, Born Feb. 5, 1778. Some other famous advertising writer guy once said that persuading people was about entering into the conversation happening inside their own mind. But you don’t need to be a mind-reader to […]

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I’ll Never Ever Tell How This Trick is Done

By Colin Theriot / February 4, 2024

“If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.” – Rob Corddry, Born Feb.4, 1971. This is a simple power. But it’s strong. Instant. Easy. Irresistible. However, I won’t explain it to you. So don’t ask. I can’t. I’m not allowed to. Don’t beg. It’s unbecoming. It’s a secret – A powerful

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You Don’t Need to “Earn” Money. It’s Just Paper and Imagination.

By Colin Theriot / February 3, 2024

“The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.” – Horace Greeley, Born Feb. 3, 1811. Darkest hour, Horace? Money is an unnatural man-made invention. What about it should make one need to EARN it? As though it must be deserved before being

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The Lazy Man’s Way to Productivity and Profit

By Colin Theriot / February 2, 2024

“Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.” – Ernest Shackleton, Born Feb. 2, 1874. Hustle. Grind. Wake up early. Stay up late. Eat your dreams and shit success. Lots of overachievers say fuckery like that. The thing is, the best you’ve got to give won’t get you jack if you’re not doing

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Capture Attention, Embed Memories, Make Money. How? Curiosity!

By Colin Theriot / February 1, 2024

“Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.” – Richard Whately, Born Feb. 1, 1787. This is the formula. You want people to remember you after they consume your messaging. Unless they stick around to consume more, or buy something to take home, you want to linger in their consciousness.

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If You Don’t Care About Your Thing The MOST, No One Else Will Care At All.

By Colin Theriot / January 31, 2024

“I’m not here for your amusement. You’re here for mine.” – John Lydon, Born Jan. 31, 1956. It’s a very important attitude to have toward your audience and your chosen topic as a writer. Though most people would get this backwards. “You’re here for the customer! The customer is always right! The customer is king!”

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Come Get Corrupted With Me And Let’s Get Rich (While Helping People)

By Colin Theriot / January 30, 2024

“Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.” – Saul Alinsky, Born Jan. 30, 1909. A lot of advertising writers talk some bullshit like “I use persuasion, not manipulation”

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Make Metaphors That Cut Like a Razor to the Throat

By Colin Theriot / January 29, 2024

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekhov, Born Jan. 29, 1860. Show, don’t tell. It’s an old adage among screenwriters, who incidentally love Chekhov. So, it behooves us to remember that demonstration is the highest possible form of proving the effectiveness of a

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Emotional Manipulation Through Shared Imagery (It’s Easy!)

By Colin Theriot / January 28, 2024

“I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.” – Claes Oldenburg, Born Jan. 28, 1929. This is our shared art also. The art of concise, visual imagery that evokes a reaction formed of personal emotions dredged from inside the audience, rather than from our words. These reactions are more powerful than

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Copywriting isn’t “Life or Death” Except When It Is. (And It Always Is.)

By Colin Theriot / January 27, 2024

“Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it’s about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.” – Mordecai Richler, Born. Jan. 27, 1931. We sellers of stuff, our products and services all directly or indirectly relate to death. Evading it. Escaping it. Thwarting it. Making

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