A few weeks ago, I asked several copywriters over in the copywriting forum if they would be interested in doing an "interview" for my blog.

What follows is a Q & A session with Jessalyn Coolbaugh - a freelance copywriter, marketing consultant and copy coach. Over the span of her 20 year career she has helped businesses make countless millions, and has helped a number of young and eager students to go on to become successful copywriters in their own rights.
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If you've looked into copywriting at all, I'm sure you've seen copywriting defined as "salesmanship in print". Now that's a valid definition, but I prefer my simpler one: writing to sell.

Anytime you write a piece where the entire purpose of the writing is to encourage someone to buy, whether they're to buy a product or buy onto your mailing list, or buy into whatever you want them to buy into (like pharmaceutical companies might want you to "buy into" flu season)...

Thailand, or the “Land of Smiles”, as it is also called, is one of the most popular tourist destinations. When you ask someone what are his top travel destinations, Thailand will often be the answer. What makes Thailand such a popular tourist destination? We will see that there are quite a few contributing factors that make Thailand such a popular country.

First of all, Thailand isn’t called the “Land of Smiles” for nothing; there is a good reason why it has that name. Thailand...

There are lots of ways you can make presentations for software, training, product reviews etc.

1. For a simple free solution take screen captures of your software and add audio then produce a streaming file. You can do all this at http://www.slideshare.com

Create Hifi Streaming Audio

You can also do one with audio

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November 26, 2008, the day before Thanksgiving, should mark my final day in uniform. I'll still be on the payroll for the following three months as I burn up the vacation time I've been ratholing in preparation for this long anticipated event. 22 years is enough.

I have been determined for a number of years to never work for someone else after I finish this gig. If there's one thing for certain, it's that 20 years in any branch of the military will damn sure cure you of ever wanting...