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7 contraband copy techniques I just made up (but you’ll want to steal immediately)

You’ve done the things. You’ve read the swipe files. Your copy is clean. Polished. Optimized. And it’s still not cutting through. It’s good, but not dangerous. It converts, but doesn’t haunt. This post is for that moment. When you’re good. But tired. And ready to tear something down. Not frameworks. Not swipeable templates. These are…

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Marketing Mad Libs: the unhinged way to break through your brand’s mental fog

There’s a special kind of brain fog that only shows up for people who are deeply good at what they do, but suddenly can’t find the words for it. The fog is real (and it’s not just you) Maybe you’ve been churning out content like a pro for years. You know your audience. You know…

A woman facing a blank screen, struggling with creative block.
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Stop calling it writer’s block. Your brand just forgot how to talk

The cursor blinks like it’s mocking you. Your brain is a browser with fifty tabs and zero music playing. Everything you try sounds like it was ghostwritten by LinkedIn in a coma. You’ve done this before. Written the posts, launched the thing. Pulled magic out of half a sentence and a deadline. But lately? Nothing…

Penelope Featherington and Eloise Bridgerton symbolizing the use of romance in marketing and branding.
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Lessons from Bridgerton. Using romance and intrigue to captivate your audience

Dearest Reader, You find yourself here, drawn in not by accident, but by the seductive pull of story – by the whisper of something intriguing just beyond the page. You are not alone in this. For every soul that has ever been ensnared by the promise of a well-crafted tale, there are countless others who…

The Dark Night of the Soul can be scary for fictional characters, individuals, and brands alike, like the face of this ghost in the dark.
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The Dark Night of the Soul in marketing. Why you must break before you rebuild

At first, everything worked. The engagement was steady. The revenue followed. The strategies that once felt sharp and innovative became routine. Predictable, even easy. There was a time when your brand had momentum. A time when marketing felt like forward motion, not just maintenance. But then something shifted. The audience stopped responding the way they…

POV marketing concept explained with an image of virtual reality disrupting one's perception.
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POV: This blog just changed the way you see marketing

POV: You’re reading this sentence, but I’m the one controlling where your thoughts go next. You think you’re skimming. Browsing. Consuming content like you always do. But that’s not what’s happening. Right now, I’m shaping how you experience this moment.Right now, I’m shifting how you think about marketing.Right now, I’m inside your head, flipping switches,…

A modern collage with stop signs to represent Strange Attractor content in marketing, which is about how unexpected storytelling breaks the scroll.
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How to create “Strange Attractor” content that stops the scroll (and maybe reality itself)

WARNING: This article may cause sudden creative breakthroughs, existential marketing crises, and an insatiable urge to delete 90% of your content strategy. Proceed with caution. Welcome to the attention economy Thunderdome… Picture this. You’re doomscrolling at 1 AM, mindlessly flicking through your feed. Some corporate guy in a navy suit is telling you that “brand…

Female brand archetypes in marketing - Queen, Rebel, Creator, Healer
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Branding like a Queen. What powerful female archetypes can teach us about marketing

What makes a brand unforgettable? It’s not the logo or tagline. It’s the story it tells and the persona it embodies. The most magnetic brands don’t (just) sell. They command, disrupt, create, and heal. They feel as familiar as an old friend or as iconic as a character in a story. That’s because, whether we…

Netflix promoted Squid Game Season 2 with a real-life scavenger hunt. A textbook example of using mystery marketing.
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Using mystery to build curiosity in your marketing campaigns

To promote Squid Game Season 2, Netflix turned the streets of Bucharest into a real-life treasure hunt, blending pop culture, puzzle-solving, and storytelling into a single campaign. Netflix hid 454 bloodstained green tracksuits, each marked with clues and details symbolizing a player’s fate from Season 1, across local thrift shops. Fans raced to crack puzzles,…

Storytelling in marketing: transforming a Call to Action into a Call to Adventure
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From Call to Action to Call to Adventure. What storytelling teaches us about marketing

You scroll through your inbox. Your feed. Your LInkedIn notifications. A flood of messages compete for your attention. But do any of them matter? “Buy now.”“Sign up today.”“Download this freebie.” They all blur together. Transactional. Forgettable. But what if marketing didn’t feel like an order? What if it felt like an invitation? Marketers have obsessed…