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What Andrew Chen Can Teach You About Writing Killer Headlines

January 27th, 2010 · View Comments · Advertising, How To, Social Media

If you want to see great web copy, read Andrew Chen. I’m going to show you his top 15 posts from last year. What do you see? The headlines are very compelling; smart little nuggets that draw you in. The secret is how he combines several copywriting techniques so well. It looks seamless. And [...]

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How To Build (& Destroy) A Brand On The Web

January 27th, 2010 · View Comments · Branding, Business Model, How To

how to build a brandGerry McGovern provides this week’s guest article. “You build a brand on the Web one click at a time. You destroy your brand by wasting your customers’ time. I am a customer of a number of banks. I judge these banks, at least partly, by the experience I have with them online. I used to really like the National Irish Bank experience. Then they ‘improved’ it, making it more secure. And this of course is the problem at the heart of security. You can make a process so secure that even the people for whom it is designed can’t use it without huge effort.”

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Is this true? The goal of a project is to make the user successful!

November 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Career, How To, Productivity

Ben says: “The goal of a project is to make the user successful at what he wants to accomplish. Go ahead, read that previous sentence a few times. It’s one that would do well to sink in.”
Is this true?

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What is the ’search, compare, verify’ generation?

October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Productivity

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Gerry Mcgovern Success on the Web is not about making customers do what you want. It is about helping customers do what they want.
My Lenovo laptop has great battery life. The battery lasts for 650 thousand million years if I don’t turn it on, and for 65 thousand million years if I turn [...]

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