Copywriting Archives - Bryan Eisenberg & Jeffrey Eisenberg

In 2014, Derek Sivers did something wild. He rewrote a confirmation email. That’s it. Not a campaign. Not a product launch. Just an email. Here’s what it said: “Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized gloves and placed onto a satin pillow…” It went viral. People laughed. They shared it. They remembered CD Baby. But why? Because it felt like something. Because it sounded like someone. Because it had what most brands are missing:…

An Apology, A New Year, A New Perspective

Bryan Eisenberg

blogging, Books, Complex Sales, Copywriting, Marketing, Optimization, Personal Branding

The last couple of years have been difficult for many people. People struggled with all kinds of issues. Some publicly and some privately. I was in the later group. I tried my best to keep a happy appearance, but honestly it was easier to withdraw and focus the little energy I had on my family. I don’t regret it at all. My friend Alan Stein Jr, author of Raise Your Game & recently Sustain Your Game, shared an incredibly powerful…

What Makes a Good Online Copywriter?

Bryan Eisenberg

blogging, Content Marketing, Copywriting, Customer Experience

Good Copywriters Are … “What makes for good online copywriting?” Both marketers and copywriters have their reasons for asking this question. “Can you recommend a good online copywriter?” Ah. Unfortunately we have considerably fewer answers to that one (although we wish we were busting at the seams with them). So one day, I enlisted my colleagues in brainstorming the answer to this related question: “What qualities must a good onlne copywriter possess?” Here are 13 things that we would look…

Comparing the Anatomy of B2B Landing Pages

Bryan Eisenberg

B2B, Complex Sales, Copywriting, Customer Experience, Landing Page, Lead Generation, Web Design

Last week, my partner and brother, Jeffrey and I were doing an in-house training for a large B2B marketing team. At the end of our training, we had them review a bunch of landing pages across the web to see how they could apply what they learned over the two day training. One source of inspiration for the landing pages they reviewed was this list of 30 beautiful landing pages. There were a few good ones (beautiful isn’t good), but…

Conversion Optimization 101: Copywriting Perspectives in Email Marketing

Bryan Eisenberg

Content Marketing, Conversation, Conversion Rate Optimization 101, Copywriting, Webinar

Last week’s conversion optimization challenge was to take a look at the webinar invite sent out by WriterAccess.com with the subject line: Webinar Invite: Lessons Learned From 90,000 Content Orders. The email contained two major obstacles and a handful of smaller obstacles. The major obstacles are the copywriting perspective and the second one is the overuse of jargon. The smaller issues are related to building credibility in the host/presenter, the calls to action and point of action assurances. This is what…

The Number 1 Rule for Content Marketing

Bryan Eisenberg

blogging, Content, Copywriting

…or the dog will just ignore you!