Comments on: Writing for a Living: How We Feed the Content Machine

By: Gabriella Sannino

Gabriella Sannino — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:02:04 +0000

In reply to Ahmad.

Thank you Ahmad 🙂 I appreciate your kind words.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:31:29 +0000

Beautiful post! Agree with every word that’s been said there, a lot of which I can personally relate to as well. ‘Selling a brick’ and ‘vision’ reminds me of Steve Jobs and what someone once said about him: ‘Steve prose and presentation is so good, he could sell you a brick and you’d still pay to buy it’!

That’s what writing is, isn’t it!

In the end, like you said, you have to love it, in order to be able to sell it. Well said!

By: Gabriella Sannino

Gabriella Sannino — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:32:39 +0000

In reply to Ricardo Bueno.

Hello Ricardo… after writing over 2000 descriptions for one client (50-100 words) we’ve learned they’re both not easy to write. 🙂 Thanks for your input

By: Gabriella Sannino

Gabriella Sannino — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:07:08 +0000

In reply to Guy Manningham.

Hey Guy, we’ve come up with a few ideas on how to keep the “content machine” filled. We’ve been calling this “feeding the beast” 🙂 as a matter of fact, it’s linked via the CommentLuv plug-in. (How to Build Content for SEO Without Bombarding Readers) We’ve included a wonderful infographic we think is helpful. Thanks for your input.

By: Ricardo Bueno

Ricardo Bueno — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:29:30 +0000

Re: “Writing copy and content that sells isn’t the same as writing product descriptions.”

Couldn’t agree more with this statement.

By: Guy Manningham

Guy Manningham — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:49:48 +0000

I’ve found I need to read twice as much as I write to get a good base of ideas to work on and expound upon. If I really get stumped, but need to post something, I do article swapping with other blogs.