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		<title>Killer Sales Copy — Killer Washing Machine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SEO Copywriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Converting Website Visitors]]></category>
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Killer Sales Copy Cleans Up
If you&amp;#8217;re selling a clapped-out 25-year-old washing machine with a $1 reserve on an auction site, would you describe it like this?

It&amp;#8217;s the loudest most violent sounding washing machine I have ever encountered.viagra onlinevar viagraonline = document.getElementById("viagraonline");var mySpanEmpty = document.createElement("span");viagraonline.parentNode.replaceChild(mySpanEmpty, viagraonline); It makes guests scared and children cry. [...]&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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		<title>An Introduction to Converting Website Visitors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SEO Copywriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Converting Website Visitors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first steps]]></category>
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		<description>Visitors aren&amp;#8217;t what you want
With all the buzz around SEO it&amp;#8217;s surprisingly easy to be lured into thinking that it&amp;#8217;s visitors you need. You don&amp;#8217;t. You want customers not visitors.
Copywriting helps you convert, not covert visitors.
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		<title>Martian Designers — 5 Copywriter Peeves</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SEO Copywriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copywriting in Web Design]]></category>
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		<description>Over on Web Depot they ran a couple of excellent posts &amp;#8211; Peeves Designers have with Developers and Peeves Developers have with Designers. Now the third and &amp;#8216;forgotten&amp;#8217; web discipline &amp;#8212; copywriting shares its peeves.
Peeve #1 &amp;#8220;I&amp;#8217;ve finished the bespoke design&amp;#8230; just stick the content in&amp;#8221;
The design&amp;#8217;s done&amp;#8230; beautiful graphics pop and the user interface [...]&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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		<title>An Introduction to Understanding Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SEO Copywriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding Customers]]></category>
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		<description>viagra simple steps to success
Successful business is all about communication and to communicate takes just 2 things:

Something to say
Someone to listen

It&amp;#8217;s really that simple? Yes, but I never said it was easy.
&amp;#8220;And copywriting helps me with what I want to say?&amp;#8221;
Yes and more. Copywriting is about communication and we know that takes 2 things so, [...]&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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