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Gabay’s Copywriting Compendium

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Marketers, creative writers, and individuals for whom copywriting forms part of their job are often required to produce innovative and engaging copy in a short space of time. Creativity is not always to hand, and therefore on some occasions additional help is required to find the right phrase, description or slogan. Gabay's Copywriting Compendium contains a wealth of inspiring tips, ideas and descriptions to aid the writing process, such as advice on spelling and grammar, examples of rhyming words, suggested euphemisms, and odd facts. The compendium goes on to provide a "Top 25 Rules" section for a number of key topics, such as how to brainstorm, how to write innovative copy, and how to think creatively. The text has been carefully designed to ensure the material can be accessed quickly and easily, and the easy to read layout will assist copywriters in finding appropriate help at any particular moment.

* All the creative writing answers you need at your finger-tips!
* Ideal for every business wishing to write clear, convincing and powerful copy.
* Endorsed and featured by leading influential marketing organisations, trade bodies and brand leaders around the world.

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Useful Reference Book For Business People
 
Review Date: September 11, 2005
Reviewer: David Coyne,
Despite the title, I think this book is actually more useful if
you are an employee or entrepreneur who occasionally
writes copy as part of your job and not for full-time copywriters.

At a whopping 700 pages, the book is a sort of
combination English usage/style guide and a
marketing/copywriting glossary. Author Jonathan Gabay
is a British copywriter who's also penned some other
nifty books on marketing.

Experienced copywriters would probably not find this
book particularly insightful since they would most
likely already have this information in their
reference library. And the copywriting sections are
relatively brief.

But for a businessperson or student who needs a
helping hand now and then on writing well (with an
emphasis on marketing communications) Gabay's book
would be a worthwhile purchase.

As well as the usual spelling, grammar and punctuation
advice, Gabay provides lists of metaphors, similes,
clichés, euphemisms, business quotes, famous
historical dates and general world facts.

In the marketing arena, he provides info on how to
write compelling slogans and basic copy tips for
direct mail, brochures, packaging, press releases and
posters.

Gabay writes with the sort of dry humor that Brits are
known for and it makes the volume stand out from the
usual textbook tone of style guides.

My one design complaint is the book uses a thin, san serfif typeface for the body text -- not the easiest on the eyes.

Guerrilla Copywriting

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Guerrilla Copywriting
 
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This 2 Disc CD set contains 1 Audio CD running over 60 minutes and 1 BONUS Data CD containing 3 highly celebrated Digital Books.
1. Guerrilla Marketing: Put Your Advertising on Steroids by Jay Conrad Levinson.
2. How to Get Richer in Your Own Business by David Garfinkel and Audri Lanford
3. Multimillion-Dollar Secrets of Selling Information Online by David Garfinkel

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60 minutes with two of the best
 
Review Date: December 13, 2006
Reviewer: David L. Hancock, Garden City, NY USA
This is truly 60 quick minutes focusing on copy in ways I never even imagined. Truly enlightening. If you need an extra edge Guerrilla Copywriting is for you.

How to Get into Advertising

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How to Get into Advertising
 
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This book serves as an invaluable guide for all those wishing to break into the world of advertising, media and marketing communications. The wealth of hints and tips that range from the conventional to the non-conventional make this book insightful and invaluable. The author uses over twenty years experience in this industry to help anyone wishing to pursue a career in this field start off on the right foot.

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Must read (but really)
 
Review Date: February 27, 2001
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Simon Anholt from Cave Anholt Jonason: I must have looked at dozens of books promising the "inside track" on working in advertising, but none of them deliver in the way this one does. Written from the perspective of the UK's leading advertising college, nobody could be better qualified than Ms Neidle to point the way to successful targeting, presentation, preparation and success in getting into the business. For the hopeful would-be agency staffer, it's as essential as a well-prepared CV and a good pair of walking shoes.
A comprehensive guide to the ad industry
 
Review Date: June 22, 2000
Reviewer: Bob Lampon,
An excellent guide to the industry and its various roles. Straight forward, telling it 'as it is' with great tips for getting that job. Also contains valid quotes from people 'in the business'. Wish something like this had been around 20 years ago!
The inside track
 
Review Date: June 22, 2000
Reviewer: maureen purbrook, London
I've read lots of 'how-to'books about advertising, but this one stands head and shoulders above the rest. It's packed with detailed information on what the job titles really mean, how to make your approach and how to find out where real openings exist. The picture it paints of the way creative people work is the most authentic I've read. This is a must for anyone wanting to get into the business and an invaluable guide for students.
Absolutely useless to Americans
 
Review Date: July 19, 2005
Reviewer: Halcyon Daze, Los Angeles, CA USA
The book offers little information relevant to Americans looking to break into American agencies. A list of my grievances: 1) Most if not all of the ad schools or training programs listed are in the U.K. 2) None of the portfolio schools for aspiring art directors or copywriters are even mentioned. 3) The "day in the life" anecdotes offered in each chapter give little practical advice to landing a job at a top agency. Seriously, who but the most clueless doesn't know that "attention to detail" and an "ability to work well with lots of people" are requirements for almost any job? [...]
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Strategic Copywriting: How to Create Effective Advertising
 
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Strategic Copywriting is a detailed how-to guide on techniques for writing and designing ads in newspapers, magazines, and other print media, as well as those broadcast on radio and television. Edd Applegate walks the reader through the proven principles of writing advertisements, analyzing real ads to illustrate why certain words, phrases, and techniques are used and how they are_or aren't_effective in attracting consumers.

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In-Depth focus on advertising
 
Review Date: July 5, 2006
Reviewer: Janice King, www.writinghightech.com
If advertisements are a major focus of your work, this book provides a good introduction to the writing challenges in different advertising media. All copywriters will benefit from reading the chapters on research, developing a creative strategy, and writing headlines & slogans.
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Copywriting by Design: Bringing Ideas to Life With Words and Images
 
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Copywriting by Design is intended as a self- guided tour for anyone who wants to explore the craft of cop ywriting. Using a make-believe product, Grand Tour Soups, th e author explains the process involved in copywriting. '

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Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium- revised edition in paperback, Second Edition: The Definitive Professional Writers Guide
 
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Marketers, creative writers, and individuals for whom copywriting forms part of their job are often required to produce innovative and engaging copy in a short space of time. Creativity is not always to hand, and therefore on some occasions additional help is required to find the right phrase, description or slogan. Gabay's Copywriting Compendium contains a wealth of inspiring tips, ideas and descriptions to aid the writing process, such as advice on spelling and grammar, examples of rhyming words, suggested euphemisms, and odd facts.

- Provides a "Top 25 Rules" section for a number of key topics, such as how to brainstorm, how to write innovative copy, and how to think creatively

- Has been carefully designed to ensure the material can be accessed quickly and easily

- Easy to read layout will assist copywriters in finding appropriate help at any particular moment

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Masters of Copywriting: 22 of the World's Greatest Advertising Writers Reveal the Secrets of Selling with Words!
 
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This information-packed manual is a must-have reference for anyone who sells with words. Now you can learn from the best, including Joseph H. Appel, Bruce Barton, Harry E. Cleland, George L. Dyer, Claude C. Hopkins, John Starr Hewitt, and other stars of the advertising world. Newly designed and typeset in a 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

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Basics Advertising: Copywriting

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Basics Advertising: Copywriting
 
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Learn the art of conceptual copywriting from a master

* Concentrates on the copywriter-client relationship

* Includes exercises and case studies of some of the best ad campaigns from around the world

Basics Advertising: Copywriting explores the act of copywriting and the role of the copywriter in the advertising process. Focusing on the need to think both verbally and visually, author Rob Bowdery reveals the secrets of conceptual copywriting and explains how images are conveyed most effectively with a combination of words and images. Topics include how to generate ideas, improve language skills, and create compelling copy. A gallery of advertisements from around the world offers a round-up of the best and brightest, highlighting the increasing dominance of English as the international language of commerce and marketing. How zen is this? Copy to sell copywriting!

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How I Learned The Secrets Of Success In Advertising
 
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You will get an exciting new slant on creative business thinking by reading this book! It is G. Lynn Sumner's personal story of how he rose from door-to-door salesman to help build some of America's most prosperous business enterprises. He give you his own long-guarded secrets for stimulating your powers of imagination so that an idea emerges for a new product, a new service, a better way to do a job, to write a letter or make a sale. The book represents a panorama of timeless advertising as seen both from out front and from behind the scenes. Those who advertise and sell will find ideas which, if adapted to their own problems, will lead to success. No matter what your business or your job, this stimulating book can help you to become one of the most widely and highly paid commodities in business today - a creative thinker. It exposes the secrets of Sumner's own tremendous business exploits, and also gives you adaptable examples of how others have won success in a big way.

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How To Make Money At Home In Spare Time By Mail: In Seven Lessons
 
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Lost and out-of-print for over sixty years, Robert Collier's "How To Make Money At Home In Spare Time By Mail" will be a welcome addition to your marketing library. Robert Collier will personally guide you through a seven lesson "Master's Class" on marketing and entrepreneurship. You will learn the secrets of back-end offers, scarcity, bonuses, guarantees, risk-reversals, reason-why advertising, and much, much more.

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