Going through his portfolio, my sarcastic side trying to find something that will somehow justify for my mind why a person's writing is so good that he gets paid for it consistently. Flip through, see [0]
A picture of a boy playing in a puddle with a Washtub on his head, with the caption:<p>"The joy of being five.<p>You've got just 365 days to capture it".<p>Ok, now I get it. (goes to my soon to be 6 daughter and gives her a huge hug, and wish I have taken more pictures, and telling my wife I just got something stuck in my eye)<p>[0] <a href="http://getcoleman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1_Jessops-Bath-Boy-2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://getcoleman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1_Jessops-B...</a>
If you want a general term for this sort of thing: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText</a>. (The original note describing the concept: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/jOCOQGI.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/jOCOQGI.png</a>)
OMG, this is awesome. Favorited!<p>I actually am a freelance copywriter. I probably fall pretty close to "If you need a freelance copywriter, you could phone me. Or not."<p>Except s/phone/email.<p>This may partly explain my poverty. Perhaps explosions and aggression is The Way.<p>Tao te Copywriting<p>Edit: He says he's flexible. Makes me think of this:<p><a href="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=flexible&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=flexible&sc=8-8&sp=-1&sk=" rel="nofollow">http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=flexible&qs=n&form=QBIR&...</a><p>(I confess: I might be a former gymnastics student. Maybe.)
Its rare that you come across a unique personal pitch tactic with this much selling power and focus. For me, this was one of those rare occasions where it actually happened. This guy seems very good at what he does.
Reminds me of this old "<i>Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging</i>" [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k</a>
Can someone explain this phenomenon to me:
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/lIAwLXP.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/lIAwLXP.png</a>
I've been doing freelance writing for 4 years now.<p>It truly is about presenting those small wisps of childhood joy through simple stories. Unfortunately, only small projects are fit for that, as corporate staff generally loathes any risk or anything different from the "standard".<p>For example, I was once asked to do a Christmas video for a plumbing company and was shown the last year's version, which was simply shot after shot of the company's staff saying their names to the camera.<p>I decided to write an actual Christmas carol about a mouse that got stuck in the drain due to broken dishwasher hose on Christmas Eve and got saved by the company's employees. Though the client praised my writing skills, she said the script got rejected because the higher-ups didn't appreciate the thought of mice in customers' homes.
Trifling bug report (but in this sort of thing it's worth getting the details right): one of the versions has "fewawards" instead of "few awards".<p>[EDITED to add:] Er, I was assuming that this was posted by the person who wrote it and that the latter is therefore reading this. But it looks like it wasn't, so maybe he isn't.
Fascinating and educational to see all those variations! Reminds me a little of <i>99 Ways to Tell a Story</i> by Matt Madden: <a href="http://mattmadden.com/comics/99x/" rel="nofollow">http://mattmadden.com/comics/99x/</a>
I could refer to this when writing cover letters. First line in my most recent cover letter "I was ecstatic..." fail... My eyes were popping out of my head when I came across this listing.<p>edit: following through the progression, it would not be hard to emulate this and get responses but then the problem comes back to your actual competence. Thanks for sharing this is helpful.<p>edit: would probably help to dissect this for visible-progression, but the pattern seems to be:<p>feel free -> if you need -> hello I'm -> then more and more dictating, not so much choice, you need to choose me.
Perfect example of a clever functional component to convey your business / sell yourself.<p>One usability note: I would turn 'less / more hard sell' either side of the slider into links that move it forward/back as keeping my mouse pressed down on the slider reading through all the options was a little cumbersome.
I get a 403 error when I try to access the site ;(<p>```Forbidden<p>You don't have permission to access / on this server.<p>Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.```
Just love the website content and slider. So wish that many more sites were like this. We could all save time by reading the one sentence version and move on.
Interesting to see "call me on <i>phone number</i>" in stead of "call me at <i>phone number</i>". Is that the appropriate way to say it where this guy is?
I really like it. Might have to mimic your style for an editor friend of mine. Do you incorporate this style somehow into your business cards (if you have any at the moment)?
Common, we're not here to get advertising, even if it's well done, I really don;t care about your skills, your supposed talent, and you B&W website. You might want to think you're special, but I still want to see something I could think of of special..