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• Category: Articles
  • 60-Minute Naked Truth Salesletter Formula (8)
  • A Low-Tech Way To Boost Response (102)
  • All Your Base Are Belong To Us! (1)
  • Answers To Questions, As Promised (2)
  • Apply The Law of Contrast to Build Desire
  • Are Bottlenecks Clogging Your Sales? (8)
  • Attracting Activity to Your Blog (41)
  • Be The First, Not The Best! (64)
  • Blame The Copywriter, Not The Copy (52)
  • Boost Exposure With These Tips And Plugins
  • Brain-Burning Brand Names Boost Business (3)
  • Breaking This Copywriting Rule Boosts Profits (2)
  • Can Copy And Content Commingle?
  • Can Readers Crack Your Code?
  • Can Your Prospects Take An Oath? (96)
  • Carve Your Niche By Dominating One (1)
  • Copy Is Not About Selling, It's About Serving (16)
  • Customers Won't Discount Your Dishonesty (47)
  • Develop Your Personal Success Journal (17)
  • Digital Scarcity: Does It Still Convert? (14)
  • Disillusioned Copywriter Demands The Truth (1)
  • Does Your Copy Have Personality?
  • Don't Be Transparent, Be Authentic Instead (12)
  • Forget Benefits, And You Will Sell More (16)
  • From Puffery To Praise: How to Turn Hype Into Sales (2)
  • Get More Done Faster With These 6 Tips (18)
  • Give Your Joint-Venture Offer An Extra Punch (35)
  • Headlines That Pull, Persuade, And Propel! (2)
  • Helpful Hints for Writing (21)
  • How Far Are You Willing to Go to Land a Sale?
  • How I Grow My Blog Organically Using These 5 Tips (5)
  • How Long Should Headlines Be? (1)
  • How to Capture and Captivate Attention (7)
  • How to Craft Cash-Creating Climactic Copy (6)
  • How To Elevate Your Visitors (8)
  • How to Extract Doubt From Your Sales Copy (2)
  • How to Get More Mileage From Your Emails
  • How to Hook (More) Copywriting Prospects (37)
  • How to Improve Your Email Open Rates (25)
  • How To Make Money With Blogs (17)
  • How to Make Salesletters Interactive (16)
  • How to Make Your Name Memorable (22)
  • How to Negotiate Better Copywriting Fees (2)
  • How to Target Your Perfect Customer
  • How to Upsell With Extended Benefits
  • How to Write a Persuasive News Release (20)
  • How to Write Carrot Wielding Copy! (48)
  • If Long Copy Stinks, Think Soap (29)
  • It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It (13)
  • Long Copy Or Short Copy? (3)
  • Lowball Puts You Behind The Eight Ball (9)
  • Multiply Your Marketing Like a Virus (4)
  • Multivariate Testing Explained... For Dummies (57)
  • My Seven-Step Copywriting Process (30)
  • Narrow Your Focus to Broaden Your Sales (2)
  • New To Copywriting? Start Here...
  • No Product? Start With Bypass Surgery (17)
  • No Such Thing As A Starving Copywriter (7)
  • Nothing Can Take The Place of Persistence (19)
  • P.S.: Don't Forget to Include This in Your Copy (30)
  • Paint Your Copy With Pictures
  • People Do Judge Authors By Their Covers
  • Phone Calls Can Kill Your Copywriting Business (47)
  • Proven Strategies Can Kill Your Business (5)
  • Publicity-Producing Posts Pull People (37)
  • Put Your Copy To The Test (31)
  • Remember These 5 Copywriting Formulas
  • Risk-Reversal's Role Reversal (8)
  • Short Copy Outperforms? Heresy! (21)
  • Splitting Hairs Over Split-Testing? (1)
  • Stop Gambling With Your Customers
  • Superior Value Equals Superior Sales (2)
  • Tangibilize Your Copy To Increase Response
  • The 5 Elements of Defense-Piercing Multimedia (9)
  • The Biggest Mistake Copywriters Make (188)
  • The Future of The Internet is Cloudy (10)
  • The Greatest Marketing Secret of All Time
  • The Key To Getting The Fees You Deserve (44)
  • The Most Important Element in Copywriting (1)
  • The Oft-Confused Features And Benefits (79)
  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Website Copy (33)
  • The Third Missing Element in Online Marketing
  • The Truth About Mega-Headlines (16)
  • There's More to Tracking than Conversion (13)
  • Three Quick Response-Boosting Tips (5)
  • Three Tips For Finding Top-Shelf Clients
  • Three Tips For Getting Copywriting Work (41)
  • Three Tips For Magnetizing Your Copy
  • Three Tips To Raise Your Response (9)
  • To Boost Conversions, Think Conversely (1)
  • To Up Sales, Up Words! (136)
  • Tweet Fearlessly, Block Ruthlessly
  • Use Pressure To Prevent Procrastination (16)
  • Use Scarcity To Sell, Not Scare (6)
  • Want A Sticky Site? Forget Content! (55)
  • Want Better Copy? Go On A Quest! (7)
  • Watch Those Speed Bumps (7)
  • What Copy Cosmetics Communicate (10)
  • When And How To Use An Alias In Business (18)
  • Write Magnetic Headlines With These 7 Tips (1)
  • You Need "Actions" To Take Action (1)
  • You Ought To Be In Pictures
  • Your Reader Wants To Know These 5 Things
• Category: Contributions
  • 1 Out Of 150 Children Suffer From This (9)
  • 5-Step Backward Copywriting Shortcut (18)
  • Copywriting the 80/20 Way (16)
  • Don't Let Your Sales Drown in Doubt (14)
  • Five Ways to Turn No into Yes (58)
  • Freud on the Rebound (3)
  • Is Joel Comm's "Twitter Power" Just For The Birds?
  • Long Copy: A Consumer's Perspective (28)
  • Profit From Radio Advertising With These 7 Keys (26)
  • Random Drug Experiments Lead To Better Copy
  • Slaughter The Competition Without Mercy (8)
  • Stephen King And The Long Copy Debate (2)
  • Target Marketing Boosts Profits (9)
  • The Benefits Of A Good Chair (2)
  • The Blog as Dinner Table Conversation (13)
  • The Importance of Doing It With VAL (3)
  • Three-Step Shortcut to Writing Successful Ads (6)
  • Why Can't Johnny Get Conversion? (4)
  • Why Freelance Copywriters Go Hungry (27)
  • Why People Are Addicted to Info-Products (71)
• Category: Events
  • 9 Milliondollar Infopreneurs For $9.95?
  • Ad Copy Intensive Teleseminar (6)
  • Big Seminar 3 Photos
  • Big Seminar 4 Photos (2)
  • Big Seminar 5 Photos (3)
  • Content Overload Forces Follow-Up Webinar (4)
  • Drastic Changes Are Coming
  • Gary Halbert And John Carlton Recordings (3)
  • Gary Halbert And Michel Fortin... Part Deux (10)
  • Gary Halbert Interview
  • Grow Your Lists 4 to 7 Times Faster (6)
  • Hear 5 Top Copywriters For Free? (1)
  • Interviewing The World's Top Audio Copywriter (1)
  • John Carlton And Michel Fortin (2)
  • Mark Your Calendars For May Madness (4)
  • Michel Fortin Live! (2)
  • One-Week Special: Memberships For Just $397! (4)
  • Proof That Salesletters Are Not Dead (3)
  • The Four-Book Workweek (17)
  • The Myth About Product Launch Copy (8)
  • The System Seminar, Cleveland, June, 2003
  • This Week's Event Will Change Your Life
  • Turn Your Multimedia Into Money Machines (3)
  • Vote For Your Internet Marketing Idol (14)
  • Web 2.0 Copywriting Workshop Pre-Announcement (1)
  • Wedding Plans On Hold For Teleseminar (1)
  • What If You've Lost Everything? (11)
• Category: News
  • "Video Killed The Audio Star..." (4)
  • 12 Awesome Resources For Design and Copy (32)
  • 25 Random Things About Me
  • After 9 Months, It's Finally Born! (2)
  • An Obvious Truth Quadrupled Our Business (17)
  • Are Headlines Tangling Your Readers? (15)
  • Are You a Lazy or Me-Too Marketer? (7)
  • Are You Committing These Sins? (26)
  • Armand Morin's New Blog
  • Author of The Famous Seven Dirty Words Dies (7)
  • Best of The Michel Fortin Blog in 2008 (10)
  • Blogging For Dollars (4)
  • Brains For Boobs?
  • Break Through Writer's Block (2)
  • Breaking My Back Promoting New Product. Literally. (46)
  • Breast Cancer Awareness Month
  • Busy Working In The Virtual Kitchen (11)
  • Care For Some Tea With That Website? (6)
  • Cerveza, Por Favor? (2)
  • Changes, Relaunches, and Extreme Makeovers (3)
  • Clean Copy Free WordPress Theme (1)
  • Clean Copy Right And Full WordPress Themes (43)
  • Computer Geek Discovers Speed Copy Secrets? (8)
  • Copywriting Champion of The World? (10)
  • Copywriting Productivity Tools (17)
  • Crash And Burn In Vegas (15)
  • Crowdsource Your Way to Success
  • Dancin' In Cancun, And Back To Work! (5)
  • Disclosure Policy of The Michel Fortin Blog (12)
  • Earn While You Learn... With Us! (13)
  • Engagement-Driven Copywriting (2)
  • Even Rock Band Websites Use WordPress (40)
  • Five Copywriters On Blog Talk Radio Tonight (4)
  • Five Things You Don't Know About Me (20)
  • Follow Me and Become a Fan! (2)
  • Free Audios, Books, Tutorials And More (8)
  • Free Writer's Block-Busting Tips (4)
  • Free! The Internet Business Manifesto (3)
  • Gary Halbert Has Passed Away (2)
  • Gimme My Space! (7)
  • Giving Thanks With This Birthday Giveaway (26)
  • Going Bald For Breasts (6)
  • Gone to California (3)
  • Help With Katrina (3)
  • How to Become a Recognized Authority (22)
  • How to Get More Comments, Less Spam (29)
  • I'm Leaving This Blog... (3)
  • Interactive Salesletters The Latest Trend? (2)
  • Internet Marketer Hit By Car (9)
  • Internet Marketing Sins Part Three Finally Out!
  • Interview Reveals Inside Tips (7)
  • Jay Abraham And Michel Fortin (6)
  • Juan Mann, One Love (15)
  • Make Money Online in Just Four Simple Steps (9)
  • Marketer Exposes Herself For Charity (13)
  • Michel Fortin Sings Karaoke? (4)
  • Monetize WordPress With These Plugins
  • Music Records And Broken Ones (7)
  • My Favorite Copywriting Blogs (19)
  • New Year's in New York
  • No More Optins For This Book
  • No Sopranos Ending Here... (4)
  • One Tiny Change Boosted Sales By 44% (4)
  • Out of The Country But Not Out of The Loop (3)
  • Pain in The Butt Forces Free Interview (9)
  • Pardon Our Dust As We Disqus
  • Pardon The Dust as I Install and Tweak New Theme
  • Productivity 2.0 (5)
  • Review of Robert Plank's SpeedCopySecrets.com (11)
  • RSS Feed And MyBlogLog Community (3)
  • Secrets of a 10% Conversion Rate (8)
  • Share Your Videos In Just One Step (14)
  • Split-Testing Is About To Change (2)
  • Stop Setting Goals to Achieve Success (9)
  • Success Chef Blog, Previews, And Samples (2)
  • Surgery, Christmas, And a Top-Shelf Newsletter (31)
  • Sylvie Fortin: My Teacher (122)
  • Taking Care of Business (12)
  • The 10-Point Ethics Checklist (2)
  • The Fortin Clan Photos
  • The Power Of Heroism
  • The Proposal Live On Stage! (25)
  • The Success Doctor Gets Renovated! (21)
  • The Success Doctor is 10 Years Old! (21)
  • The Year Of The Roller-Coaster (6)
  • This Ageless Classic Is A Must-Read (2)
  • This Eye-Opening Video is, Well, Golden! (5)
  • This Little Tool Quadrupled My Signups
  • Time For a Facelift (22)
  • Tragedy Struck This Internet Marketer
  • Turning Lemons Into Pie (4)
  • Validate Your Profitable Headlines (3)
  • Vegas-Bound and Ready To Rip (4)
  • Website Redesign Pulls in More Sales? (8)
  • What Links Do You Want? (6)
  • What's the "Buzz" All About (87)
  • When Two Souls Unite, It's Magical (17)
  • Who Won The Most "Buzz" Challenge? (8)
  • Why Do I Blog? (7)
  • Why Some Marketers Are Psychics (33)
  • WordPress Plugins Used On The Michel Fortin Blog (29)
  • Writing For a Multimillionaire In Bel-Air!
• Category: Opinions
  • A Disturbing Trend in Internet Marketing (65)
  • Are All Business People Dishonest? (55)
  • Are MP3s Illegal? (9)
  • Are Product Launches Peddling For Profits? (39)
  • Avoid Getting Sucked In... And Sucked Dry (19)
  • Black Hats Are For Magicians, Not Marketers (1)
  • Contract Your Time to Expand Your Income (14)
  • Create Optimized Blog FAQs On The Fly (20)
  • Declaring My Independence From Smoke (24)
  • Did Larry Winget Go Overboard?
  • Dying 47-Year-Old Professor Gives Last Lecture (18)
  • Email Mini-Makeover Case Study (8)
  • Extortion: The New Get-Rich-Quick Scheme?
  • Eye Gravity Draws Attention And Interest: Study (19)
  • Failing To See The Happy "Medium" (8)
  • Feel Like Giving Up? Go Out On a Limb... Or None (36)
  • Feel Like Making Link Love (2)
  • Flustered by Fake Friendly Comments
  • Following Up On The Auto-Follow Fiasco
  • Forced Continuity: A Different Perspective (28)
  • Get in Touch With The Future (14)
  • Give Your Testimonials a Reality Check
  • Going Nuts Over The Lack Of Focus (19)
  • Google Blocks My Blog And Warns Visitors? (35)
  • How I Broke Into Copywriting (13)
  • How I Used Discussions As a Marketing Tool (2)
  • Is Copywriting a Masculine Skill? (41)
  • Is Facebook a Viable Marketing Tool? (38)
  • Is This The End of Affiliate Marketing? (65)
  • It's Not About Facebook, It's About Integrity
  • John Reese Is To Blame... (8)
  • Killing Time Can Be Therapeutic (5)
  • Master Your Mind, Mind Your Master (13)
  • My Name is Michael, I Got a Nickel... (28)
  • Not-So-Shocking Responses to Shocking Report (29)
  • On Not Playing The Blame Game (16)
  • Ordering Offline Boosts Online Sales? (3)
  • Purging My Way to Freedom From Email Clutter (3)
  • Rotting The Basket (8)
  • Should I Merge My Newsletter And Blog? (65)
  • Slapping Salesletters Together Slaps Back (19)
  • Social Media Isn't Dead, But It Can Be Deadly (1)
  • Studying Roots? Or Picking Fruits? (39)
  • Surveys Made Simple By iSalient (6)
  • Testing New Camcorder With Killer Drum Karaoke (27)
  • Thank You For Your Generosity And Support!
  • The Birth of a Better Salesletter (18)
  • The Death of Forced Continuity: A Review
  • The Facebook Fake Friend Fallout (23)
  • The Gold is In The Picks And Shovels (14)
  • The Lines That Divide Us (43)
  • The Need For Long Copy and Other Stupid Myths (34)
  • The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword (13)
  • The Real Problem With The Flaw of Attraction (14)
  • The Real Sinister Side of Forced Continuity (77)
  • The Secret To My Success (20)
  • These Test Results Are Dense! (16)
  • This Plugin Increases Membership Conversions (13)
  • This Short Video Blew Me Away
  • Three Hot Trends to Watch Out For (1)
  • Three Simple Wishes For 2007 (14)
  • Transparency Versus Hypocrisy (9)
  • Twitter Populated By Drones And Fakes?
  • Two Shining Stars in an Age of Darkness (1)
  • We Are What We Think (20)
  • What A Pithy! Salesletter, That Is... (6)
  • WordPress And PayPal? (66)
  • WordPress, Trademarks And Apologies (7)
• Category: Series
  • Category: Boost My Response
    • 2nd Call With Gary and Michel (3)
    • 2nd Gary Halbert Call Part 1 of 4
    • 2nd Gary Halbert Call Part 2 of 4
    • 2nd Gary Halbert Call Part 3 of 4
    • 2nd Gary Halbert Call Part 4 of 4
    • Gary Halbert and Michel Fortin (4)
    • Gary Halbert Call Part 1 of 4 (2)
    • Gary Halbert Call Part 2 of 4
    • Gary Halbert Call Part 3 of 4
    • Gary Halbert Call Part 4 of 4 (1)
    • Halbert and Carlton Interviews (1)
    • Halbert and Carlton Resources (2)
    • John Carlton and Michel Fortin (1)
    • John Carlton Call Part 1 of 4
    • John Carlton Call Part 2 of 4 (1)
    • John Carlton Call Part 3 of 4
    • John Carlton Call Part 4 of 4
  • Category: Death of The Salesletter
    • Genesis (1)
    • How Is The Internet Different? (1)
    • Hype or Hope?
    • Multisensorial Salesletters (3)
    • Personality-Driven Sales Experience
    • Sensory-Driven Sales Experience
    • Shorter Salesletters But More Copy
    • Show Me The Goods (2)
    • So, What’s Next? (3)
    • The "Samplification" of the Web (2)
    • The Death of The Salesletter (1)
    • The Demise of Dull, Drab, and Dingy
    • Web Two-Point... What? (1)
  • Category: Drop Your Goals
    • Be True to Yourself
    • Calculating Your Risks
    • Change in Perception
    • Conclusion
    • Corner Cutting
    • Dealing with Fear (1)
    • Drop Your Goals (1)
    • Foreword
    • From the Inside Out
    • Goal Achievement (1)
    • Growing in the Right Direction
    • How to Become Successful
    • Lack and Limitation
    • Luck and Motivation (1)
    • Michel Fortin Interview
    • Michel Fortin Interview Part 1 of 5
    • Michel Fortin Interview Part 2 of 5
    • Michel Fortin Interview Part 3 of 5
    • Michel Fortin Interview Part 4 of 5
    • Michel Fortin Interview Part 5 of 5
    • Natural Laws
    • New Time Management
    • Positive Productivity
    • Quality of Life
    • Self Management
    • Successfulness Defined
    • Taking the Time
    • The Connection
    • The G.O.A.L. Method (3)
    • The Inner You
    • The Power of Alignment
    • True Motivation (4)
    • Worksheets (1)
    • You are a "You" Potentiality
    • Your Life's Foundation
    • Your Self-esteem
    • Your Successfulness (2)
    • Your True Priorities
    • Your Values (1)
  • Category: Power Positioning
    • Bonus! Thou Shall Put it in Writing
    • Introduction
    • The 10 Commandments of Power Positioning (1)
    • Thou Shall Appoint Thyself
    • Thou Shall Become a Celebrity
    • Thou Shall Divide and Conquer
    • Thou Shall Find More With Less
    • Thou Shall Make The Ordinary Extraordinary
    • Thou Shall Make Thy Net Work
    • Thou Shall Not Copy
    • Thou Shall Seek Out and Spread Out
    • Thou Shall Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick
    • Thou Shall Take it Step by Step
    • Top-of-Mind Awareness
    • Warning!
  • Category: Science of Getting Rich
    • A Summary of The Science
    • Acting in The Certain Way
    • Cautions and Observations
    • Efficient Action
    • Further Use of The Will
    • Getting Into The Right Business
    • Gratitude
    • How Riches Come To You
    • How To Use The Will
    • Increasing Life
    • Is Opportunity Monopolized?
    • Preface
    • The Advancing Personality
    • The First Principle in The Science
    • The Impression of Increase
    • The Right To Be Rich
    • The Science Of Getting Rich (2)
    • There is a Science of Getting Rich
    • Thinking in The Certain Way
  • Category: Scientific Advertising
    • A Name That Helps (1)
    • Art In Advertising
    • Being Specific
    • Getting Distribution
    • Good Business
    • Headlines
    • How Advertising Laws Are Established
    • Individuality
    • Information
    • Just Salesmanship
    • Leaning On Dealers
    • Letter Writing
    • Mail Order Advertising
    • Negative Advertising (2)
    • Offer Service
    • Psychology
    • Scientific Advertising (4)
    • Strategy
    • Tell Your Full Story
    • Test Campaigns
    • Things Too Costly
    • Use Of Samples