The Michel Fortin Blog

The other day, one of my readers asked me the following question, which I found rather interesting: "Why should the author of a product be included in their sales copy?" Seems like a pretty redundant question, right? Especially to any veteran...

When writing direct response copy, a few things can maximize the responsiveness of your message. The first and most important element that can turn any website, salesletter, or advertisement into an action-generating mechanism is, without question,...

An interesting debate is raging among copywriters and content developers about the differences, if any, between writing copy for the web versus writing content. Prolific copywriter Nick Usborne conducted a survey with his newsletter readers to...

In a recent critique for a coaching client, the issue of "gap analysis" arose. Gap Analysis is something I learned in sales, and it was heavily taught by sales trainers like Brian Tracy, such as in his course "The Psychology of Selling." Gap...

If you played video arcade games in the late 80's or early 90's, you might remember Zero Wing -- a game in which a battle takes place in the year 2101, where you must defend the planet Earth from an alien invasion. Zero Wing may have been a...

If you have been living under a rock in the past few weeks, then you might have missed one of the biggest kerfuffles in Internet history. Or so it seems. No, I'm not talking about the contested elections in Iran. I'm talking about the recent...

Part of my job as a copywriter is coming up with names. A while ago, I wrote a blog post on the power of names. I won't repeat it here, except to reiterate that branding, albeit not a priority for most, is still incredibly important. And it's...

If you've spent much time at all here, you'll know Michel's a fanatical tester. But he's not alone in his passion for quantifiable results. For instance our friend Alex Mandossian preaches to anyone with ears to hear that, "Nothing is true or...

Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins is a timeless classic written many years ago but a book whose powerful principles still ring true to this day. It contains 21 chapters of timeless strategies you don't want to ignore in your...