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Why Good Copywriting Goes Bad: Ignorance | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

When you write websites, ads, white papers, or other business materials, readers simply want information. Later they learned that in Africa illiteracy is high, so companies put pictures on the product labels to show what’s inside. Recover from mistakes and learn from them. They don’t care about the artistry.

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

You put hours of effort and study into learning a certain subject inside and out. You probably can’t remember when you last put the knowledge you learned in university to work in your everyday business affairs. You’ve probably forgotten half of what you learned, too. I didn’t pay attention to what I’d learned.

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