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Creative Concepts and Copywriting

Michele Pariza Wacek began writing professionally in 1993 and launched Creative Concepts and Copywriting in 1998. Before deciding to work for herself, she had garnered experience from all sides of the marketing world — as creative services coordinator for an international company, as a writer in marketing agencies and as a communicator in city government.

Going into business was the best decision Michele ever made. She discovered a passion for combining her creativity with her writing ability to help solve marketing problems for her clients. Her Web site provides resources, including two free e-newsletters, designed to help people combine their own creativity with marketing and copywriting principles and realize their dream business.

Michele also writes fiction and has completed two novels. She lives in the mountains of Prescott, Arizona, with her husband and three border collies. Photo: Katie Baird, Loose Ends.


Writing Articles by Michele Pariza Wacek

Six Ways Your Creativity Can Turbocharge Your Copywriting
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Use your creativity skills to write copy that stands apart from the crowd by taking advantage of your unique voice and personality, painting visuals, and connecting with your target market on an emotional level.

7 Reasons Why You Must Get Creative with Your Marketing
By Michele Pariza Wacek
The bottom line? No matter where you are on the creativity scale, your attempts at creativity won't hurt your marketing (no matter how "bad" you think you are at it).

How to Succeed as a Writer
By Michele Pariza Wacek
As a professional copywriter, I'm often asked by aspiring copywriters what they need to do to succeed.

10 Reasons to Consider Copywriting
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Looking to chuck that full-time job for a life of full-time writing? Or maybe you’ve already dumped the day job but aren’t quite as busy as you’d like to be.

Writer's Block Begone
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Writer's block isn't about the writing. Writer's block isn't telling you you can't write or you'll never write again or you'll never have another idea again.

Three ways to put fresh spins on old marketing concepts
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Are you struggling to find a new twist on advertising or marketing campaigns?

Becoming more creative — What we can learn from Disney
By Michele Pariza Wacek
When you think about the legacies Walt Disney left us, do talking mice and a multigizillion dollar company come to mind?

Three tips to improving your writing rhythm
By Michele Pariza Wacek
What I mean by rhythm is how the writing sounds. The rhythm of the words and sentences. It's a subtle aspect of writing, one not normally talked about, but that doesn't lessen its importance.

Four creative ways to add power to your marketing
By Michele Pariza Wacek
There's a hard truth about marketing: People don't care about businesses ...

Four headlines that work
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Headlines are the most important part of a print ad.

Three keys to crafting successful print ads
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Writing a good print ad that gets results is essential.


Article Series (multi-parts)

Marketing:

Part 1: Forget Everything You Ever Knew About Marketing — It's All About To Change
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Remember that romantic image of the writer?

Part 2: Permission Marketing — The Future of Marketing
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Permission marketing is when your customers give you permission to market to them.

Connect more, sell more:

Part 1: One marketing mistake you don't want to make
By Michele Pariza Wacek
If you want to sell anything — whether books, products or services — then you need to know your target market.

Part 2: Ask and You Shall Receive
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Once you've defined your target market, you need to start gathering information about that market.

Part 3: How "On Target" is Your Marketing?
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Now that you've gathered information about your customers and potential customers, it's time to create a "customer profile."

Part 4: Talk the Talk (and Boost your Sales)
By Michele Pariza Wacek
Psychology Today once reported a study about the habits of successful salespeople. It said the best salespeople empathized with their customers.

New Writing Articles
Creative Careers in the Arts: An Interview with Author Naomi Rose
Naomi Rose is a writer and Book Developer with over 30 years in the publications field. She works with writers, frequently first-time book writers, to nurture their book into being.
It's All Write: On Finding & Expressing Your Words
Be bold. Be passionate. Allow yourself the freedom to find your words and to explore your thoughts through words.
Love of the Craft: Looking at Your Preferences and Passions
A quick two-step exercise you can use to take a conscious look at your preferences and passions.
Juicy Journals & Wild Words: Journaling Online
Personal and professional advice for anyone who blogs, writes, or journals online.
Creative Photo Inspiration: Find a Patch of Sunlight
With sunlight as my guide, I am more open to creative epiphanies that may be right in front of my face.
Need Some Writing Inspiration? Try Some RPC: Risk, Passion and Creativity!
You want to write. You really do. But the passion you feel never gets translated into actual writing. And if it does, it doesn't last very long. You run out of steam.
How to Write Relevant Dialogue
The key to good dialogue is twofold: it must convey relevant information while sounding true to natural speech.
Cheeky Characters Write Themselves
Characters don’t achieve free-spirited winner-take-all success through outlines. They become realistic because the author allows them the freedom to pick what comes next.
Journey Into the Imagination — Traveling to the Land of Betwixt and Between
Betwixt and Between is a land of inspiration, and always near...
Writing: Hit Your Muse with a Rock
It’s simple. When a story stalls, that’s your invitation to write whatever comes to mind.

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