by Michelle Lopez | May 8, 2015 | Blog
#ThugLife is a popular thing right now on YouTube. It’s where an animal suddenly does something unexpectedly… similar to what a gangster might do. The animal’s face is put in a freeze frame as the video zooms in for dramatic effect, with gangster rap...
by Michelle Lopez | May 6, 2015 | Blog
An easy way to generate material for your email newsletter is to simply look at your present life. It’s brimming with raw story material. What are you currently doing / thinking about / reading / or observing TODAY (or this past week)? You can write about it....
by Michelle Lopez | May 5, 2015 | Blog
A while back, I read a great book called “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life” by Robert Fritz. It’s such an amazing book! And its wisdom applies to marketing and selling organic, non-toxic products online....
by Michelle Lopez | Apr 29, 2015 | Blog
There’s a bit of a cancerous thought going around…and it goes something like this: “My stories aren’t that important or worth sharing.” Perhaps you’ve had some variation of this thought. You sit down to write an email, or a...
by Michelle Lopez | Apr 14, 2015 | Blog
As someone who gets paid to write words that generate sales, I strongly believe in the power of contrast marketing. This is essentially where you take one thing, and contrast it to something that is its polar opposite. You dramatize the extreme “black and...
by Michelle Lopez | Apr 11, 2015 | Blog
I was reading about a disruptive new grocery delivery model that could threaten the existence of health food stores. Arnie Katz, co-founder and president of Relay Foods, says, “Traditional retailers are operating under an outdated and inferior business model.”...