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7 Tips for Finding and Hiring a Good Copywriter

A search on Google for “copywriter” will turn up no less than 174,000 names. Writers who call themselves copywriters may be plentiful, but real copywriters who are good are hard to find.

Ernest Hemingway and George Bernard Shaw tried it and decided they couldn’t do it. John Marquand and Stephen Vincent Benet gave up almost as quickly as they started. Aldous Huxley said it was “easier to write a passable sonnet than a passable advertisement.” And the lore of the advertising business is filled with tales of other successful novelists, journalists, playwrights and poets who have tried their hand at advertising copy and failed.

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