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Send them a handwritten letter. Nobody does it. That’s why it works. It follows the Charm Offensive ‘formula’, as it were: — [Attention] – The form alone will get attention. You earn a few additional seconds attention because sending a handwritten letter in 2018 is archaically charming. [Disarm] – Now it’s time your words to […]
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Continue readingThe unique benefit of the disarming Charm Offensive approach to copywriting – and the unique mechanism of action that makes it work. One of the many benefits of the Charm Offensive approach to applying for jobs, cold pitching, and other outbound sales endeavours is how prospects respond. This is most obvious when you see screenshots […]
Continue readingThis is a fun little trick I use a lot. I realised recently I learned it from one of my best friends growing up. You can mix formal, serious words with informal ones to create funny sentences. I’ll start a sentence using words that are often used in formal (or at least […]
Continue readingStephen Curry shoots 3 point shots from much longer distances than his peers. Why? Because nobody else takes them. Why does nobody take them? Because they’re low % (Shoot/Score) Why are they low %? Because you can’t hit them well from that far away. That means nobody was defending these shots. Curry trained and trained […]
Continue readingThat’s easy, you don’t talk about the boring stuff. You talk about something else. I did this for a company offering serviced office space. If I’d have written about what they did, which is find businesses office space, I would have probably struggled to get any coverage. Instead, I wrote a totally irreverent job advert, […]
Continue readingThat’s not a typo. It’s terrible wordplay that I shall not apologise for. This blog is principally about standing out and getting attention. The key to doing this is to be interesting. You might ask, “What is it to be interesting?” I was watching the Joe Rogan podcast last night and a guy called Michael […]
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Much to the chagrin of one of my bosses, I put my notice in. I was one of their two top performing consultants, despite the fact I more often than not showed up hungover or in some state of obvious disrepair.
Continue readingIn 1915, deep in the jungles of South America, the rising conflict between two rival American fruit companies came to a head. Each desperately wanted to acquire the same five thousand acres of valuable land. However, two different locals claimed to own the deed to the plantation. In the no-man’s-land between Honduras and Guatemala, neither […]
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