An ROI on a TOV and WTF?
Imagine you’re at a party. The room is filled with the crackle of conversation; you’re excited you’ve found a bunch of cool, like-minded people who have interesting things to say. You find a group of entrepreneurial types with sparkling wit and business chops for days...
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Guest Blog – 4 Online Editing Tools To Help You Write Gooder (And They’re Free!)
Guest blog by Crisp Copy Class Graduate, Natasha D'Arcy. "Disclaimer: The following article may or may not contain spelling and grammatical errors. Only now as a parent of a prep year student do I appreciate how messed up the English language is! All those...
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Case Study – What Happens When You Join The Crisp Copy Class As a Massage Therapist and End Up A Copywriter
Guest Blog/Case Study by Nicola Hogan"Late nights and tequila shots are not conducive to family life. I did what any sensible 40 year old should.I signed up for the 2018 Crisp Copy Class and started a business by accident.Actually, that’s not quite true. I already...
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What Is A Long-Tail Keyword?
OR The Short Tale of the Long-Tail Keyword In Norse mythology, the monstrous Jormungandr was thrown into the heaving seas. His tail was said to be long enough to encircle the world and fit back into his own mouth: when he releases his tail, the end of the world...
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2 Ways to Crush A Copywriter’s Soul (And 5 Steps To Hire A Copywriter Who Clicks With You)
If you’re thinking of hiring a copywriter, first of all – yay! – you’re starting to realise how important the right words are to your business (hint: very important). Second of all, just check yourself a minute. Yes, I’m suggesting you slow down. Have a little think...
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Micro Copy – A Little Bit Clever
Just because it's a button doesn't mean it's boring Just when you thought copywriting was all about the words, I’m going to break your heart. You’ve already heard the rants about copywriting being different to content writing but there’s more. Yep, I’m going to add...
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Digital Resources I Loved In 2018
If only I had a dollar for every time someone asked to pick my brain… I’d be able to take at least a month off. So, here’s a collection of my favourite digital things. Website themes, content resources, hosting, legals… all the good things that make your business look...
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Advice For Copywriters – Don’t Believe Everything You Read
Do you think you might be a cruddy copywriter? If you’re secretly thinking, ‘yep’, it’s likely because of these 2 things: Because you are a cruddy copywriter. Or is it because that copywriter is all over Facebook celebrating their pants off and painting the town red...
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3 Things To Improve Your DIY Copywriting I Learned From A Money Seminar
I attended a seminar about money last year, and yet I just learned something that totally relates to writing your own copy. The subconscious mind keeps us safe - that’s its job. It keeps our heart beating and our lungs filling up with air and a bit of our brain...
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Thinking Of Breaking Into Copywriting? Here’s A List Of Reasons Not To
Copywriting – I’m good at it, and it’s been good to me. It’s not for everyone, though. And it’s certainly not for some people who you’d think it’d be for. Let me explain. In my 1:1 copy coaching sessions, I always ask my budding copywriters why they want to become...
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Writing An About Page Got You In A Panic?
I’ve won awards for writing crisped copy for businesswomen in Australia and around the world. I have clients who won awards after I wrote for them. I’ve rewritten business brands in ways that not only tickle the people who do the communicating but also tick boxes for...
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Shouty Copy and Fornicating Fonts
PLEASE, STOP WITH THE SHOUTY COPY!! Did you quit your job, follow your dreams, sell your car and read everything about business building on the Google just to be SHOUTED AT? Heck, no! Shouty Copy isn’t good for anyone. It’s hurting my eyes, and frankly, it’s making...
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The Gendered Conundrum Of Worth
For this word-nerd bird, setting the dollar amounts I now charge scared me half to death. It was a trial by fire – complete with third-degree burns. For so many of the women I work with, deciding on your prices is fraught with fears. We find all sorts of crazy...
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9 Businesswomen I Met At AusMumpreneur (Who You Need To Meet Too)
I went to AusMumpreneur to win an award. Well, that’s a little bit of a fib. I went on the off chance, the one in a (couple hundred with change) shot, the slightest possibility I’d win an award.
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You Can’t Just Up Your Prices – You Have To Up Your Brand
I started out like a lot of women new to business; I thought I’d leave my job, provide a killer service, and get paid accordingly. Which worked, in the beginning. Because I simply doubled my hourly rate as an employee and charged my time out as peanuts. Nodding? Uhoh....
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Crisp Copy Named Ausmumpreneur Of The Year in the WA Business Excellence Category
September 2018 Perth Business Woman Brings Home Gold at National Awards ***** 'Parkerville Mother of 3, Jay Crisp Crow, has just been named AusMumpreneur Of The Year in the WA in the Business Excellence category. Jay started Crisp Copy from her dining room table just...
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Best Content Planners for Bloggers (Or My Blogging Was Crap, Here’s What I Did About It)
I’m often asked if blogging really is that important for business. The answer is: only if you want more visitors, readers, and potential customers. (Which is most of us!) That's why I happily wrote hundreds of thousands of words of blog content over the last three...
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6 Downloadables To Visually Brand Your Copywriting Business
There are some cool AF copywriters who can convert with some black text on a white screen. For the rest of us, there's Canva. Because copy needs a strong, beautiful partner and visuals are just the love-match required. If you've been mucking around sending out ugly...
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The No-Trick New Blogger Strategy for Content Creation
It wasn’t so long ago that I spent a decent 12 hours sweating in anticipation, about to press ‘publish’ on my first blog. So, I feel your pain. Although I’d spent over a decade writing as an employee for various institutions, the first piece bearing my own name just...
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Copy and Design – A Website Love Story
As a bona fide, card-carrying word nerd, I’m always going to advocate good copy as the essential aspect of your business branding If we’re using marriage as the metaphor, let’s say copy is the wife. But, fair’s fair – design is an important facet. A union needs a...
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Why I Delete My Hard-Earned Email Subscribers
Decluttering is the latest buzzword, and the whole world has jumped on the organising bandwagon. (Except for me; I refuse to give up that clothes-pile-on-corner-chair in my bedroom). Decluttering promotes a sense of accomplishment, and the same applies to business....
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Slay At Social Media Copywriting
Social media copywriting. It’s just information sharing, right? Like chatting. Yes, but as they say in the classics, it’s all in the delivery. The interwebs is a place where you have the whole world at your fingertips. At the touch of a button (or maybe a few)...
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How To Ask For A Testimonial (And Make It Easy For People To Say Yes)
Do you cringe at asking for a testimonial? What about if I asked you to write me one? Did you just shrivel up inside? That’s just how your clients and customers feel when you ask them to pen you a para or two. Unless they’re word-nerd-birds like yours truly, writing a...
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Why Content Writing Isn’t Copywriting (But How To Blend Them Brilliantly)
You’ve heard them being bandied around, these two terms. Copywriting here, content writing there… but do you know the difference between them? Maybe it’s one of those things you ‘should’ know, so you’re too embarrassed to ask. Or maybe you just assume they’re exactly...
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Why And How To Communicate With Newsletter Subscribers (So They Don’t Yawn Or Delete)
In this day and age, there’s probably a million ways to talk to your clients, so you’re probably wondering: “Jay, what’s so special about an email list? Why can’t I just use social media? Word of mouth is working for me A-OK, I don’t need to bend over...
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What Is SEO Copywriting?
Sometimes, someone leans over to me at a workshop and whispers: “what the HECK is SEO writing and how do I do it?” SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) can help your site climb up search engine results pages and catch the eye of more prospective customers and clients....
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Why I Can’t Meet You For A Quick Business Coffee
I am roaring through my inbox (still haven’t taken the time to set up the email filters like my business coach has taught me to), trying to maximise my writing time while handling incoming emails, upgrading my proposal document, and carefully scheduling every moment...
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What Is Search Engine Optimization?
Search Engine Optimization = SEO. If you’ve been on the internet in the past decade, you’ve probably heard the term, at least in passing. And it sounds pretty spiffy. I mean, just say it out loud – Search Engine Optimization. I feel like that’s the sort of thing that...
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What Is A Blog? (And Does My Business Need One?)
So, what is a blog? You’ve probably heard the term, unless you live in a sub-region of… no, hang on, they have internet too. People talk about blogging, or they might reference their favourite blogs, or they might start talking about starting a blog. If...
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Don’t Use Punctuation To Do A Word’s Job
If I tell you I have a thing against exclamation marks, will that bind you up so much you can’t Facebook message me anymore? Lookit, I like them. I even love them, in context. And on social media – A-OK to exclamation mark the heck out of your content in a...
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Website Sliders? Hate ‘Em. Here’s Why
It seemed like a good idea at the time. Like that time in the ‘80s when all the girls were sporting legwarmers (as a fashion item, not a tendon aide) until the whole world seemed to turn banana-yellow and popsicle-pink. Please stop, it hurts my eyes. It’s...
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What Does Above The Fold Mean?
If you’re planning to launch a smashing new website, you might have heard this term bandied about. The content that lives above the fold can make or break the conversion power of your website. Many people don’t know where the fold is, what’s meant to be...
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What Happened When I Stopped Quote Shopping (And Started Paying Experts)
At the time of writing this, it's only been six months since I finally quit my job (I eased out slowly, you can read about that here). Part of the Era Of Emancipation process was upping the ante on my business. Safe to say, until the point I dropped...
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Website Headers Aren’t Just For Decoration
Oh, I'm just like you. I like the pretty ones. I like the white space and the watercolour edges and the curated... everything. But website headers? Those things are serious, yo. Every single week I work with women on their copy who are either ignoring headers or using...
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