The Michel Fortin Blog

Effective immediately, I'm instituting a new comment policy for this blog. Before I explain it to you (it's really simple as there are only three rules), let me give you the reason why. I'm seeing a growing number of comment spam lately. Not the...

Some people tend to tweet, blog, post, and status-update their little hearts out. Be it on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, their own blog, or whatever. They say it's all about transparency, and transparency is good. But I think we need to...

Yesterday, I had a tweet burp. (If you've been living under a rock in the past year, a "tweet" is a brief, text message on micro-blogging platform Twitter.) I call it a "tweet burp" because it's something like a brain fart. But I prefer "brain...

I rarely do this. But after my last blog post on the idea that Twitter is populated by drones and fakes, Tiffany Dow posted a spirited rebuttal to my blog post. A gauntlet has been thrown down. I felt compelled to respond. In fact, I...

Not a copywriter or just starting out? Can't afford a high-priced copywriter? Need copy real fast to start selling or to promote affiliate products right away? Here's something that might interest you... Computer programmer Robert Plank shares...

The most important part of your copy is not your headline, not your offer and certainly not your benefits. The most important part is your customer. In the last few weeks, I've been critiquing some pretty good copy. Very well-written and...

So what exactly is Web 2.0? I’m not an analyst or some dotcom pundit. But being online since 1991 (or since 1982 if you consider bulletin board services), I’ve witnessed enough to have a good grasp of what’s going on. So here’s my...

“Samplifying” is a term I’ve coined to explain the growing (albeit always existing) need for more proof. The more samples you offer before you sell your product, the more you will invariably sell. Blame it on the need to feel more secure...