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YES, YOU CAN BE WRONG

5/25/2018

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Statue with Head Upside Down
It’s happened to you before.

You’re talking to a client, explaining them how to do something, when they cut you off with a, “Yeah, yeah, I hear ya. But how about we try it this way.”

You close your eyes, grit your teeth. Outwardly, if you’re talking on the phone—inwardly if in person. As calmly as you can, you explain that you appreciate their input, but you’ve been doing this a long time. You’ve weighed the different options, and the way you’ve suggested is the best one.

Left unsaid—what you really wish you could say—is why on earth are you always stuck dealing with people who know nothing about copywriting.

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WHY THE FEAR OF GETTING IT WRONG IS STOPPING YOU FROM GETTING IT RIGHT

5/9/2018

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A choice of white doors, with one of them yellow
​Every so often, I look back over the last few years and see how far I’ve come.

From the days when I knew nothing about copywriting and just fumbled my way through some early projects without much clue as to what I was doing.

To today.

I didn’t get everything wrong in those early days. My instincts were usually correct, and I’ve been writing since I was a kid.

But I did get a lot of it wrong.

And when I think about how I was able to grow so much in such a short period of time, I realize it’s really due to one thing.

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    Eli Landes is one of those weird writers who just can't get enough. A marketing writer by day and a fiction writer whenever he can squeeze in the time, he spends his spare time working on his novel, writing short fiction, or daydreaming (I mean, researching). His main genre is Jewish fiction, but he's been known to dabble in the weird, the absurd, and the truly dark.

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