Feed your brain. Here is a complete list of my blog posts and articles on copywriting and marketing:

Writing your website?

• 16 questions to help you write a douche-free bio
• The Underhanded Basketball Theorum of Marketing
• Stop, drop & roll: A simple technique that could save your home page
• Eat your objections. They’re good for you.
• Are you talking with your mouth full?
• Inside the writer’s studio: the making of a boring company blurb
• Bust blocks with repetition
• What not to write
• 3 things “The Pick-Up Artist” can teach you about copywriting

Marketing yourself on LinkedIn?

• How I used LinkedIn to get a 41% response rate & 6 new clients
• Are you making these mistakes on your LinkedIn profile?

Marketing a clean tech or sustainable service?

• Marketing when the message is global destruction
• What we talk about when we talk about green

Making a marketing plan?

• Why quarterly numbers are like peanut butter
• How to go on a marketing diet
• Market less, sell more?
• What having the flu taught me about marketing
• The Spaghetti Cat In the Room
• How to Always Be Right
• Does your brand’s carpet match the drapes?
• How Chuck E. Cheese made me a better thought follower
• How Fidel Castro can make you a better marketer
• Letting go of Tim Ferriss’ Four-Hour Work Week
• A secret stress-relief method that beats yoga & builds business
• Elite copywriter interrogation techniques

Creating your business plan?

• My first makeover
• How I collected fresh brains for 2009

Trying to close more sales?

• How I got out of 2 tickets with the assumptive close

Need to be creative on call?

• The 30-day tramp experiment
• Creativity for cretins (and the rest of us)
• How to make Brevity Burgers

Promoting your business or event with email marketing?

• Are you subject-line material?

Writing a white paper?

• Before you write that amazing title…
• 3 simple procedures that brought a white paper back from the dark side

Want a PowerPoint presentation that doesn’t put people to sleep?

• Falling in love with PowerPoint all over again

Brainstorming a tagline?

• Did Mr. Whipple take the tagline with him?
• Taglines you’d like to take to dinner

Looking for a copywriter?

• 6 reasons to run away from a copywriter
• How to outsource your life
• How to Tivo someone’s brain
• What not to write

Looking for more advice?

Here are my top-7 resources for independent consultants:

1. Marketing Sherpa’s free e-mail newsletter, which features daily case studies and success stories. http://marketingsherpa.com
2. Mark Silver publishes an amazingly helpful newsletter on how to stay “in your heart” and stay in business at the same time. You can subscribe here: http://heartofbusiness.com/thecore/.
3. Havi Brooks helps independent professionals (or people who want to be) who know they have something amazing to share with the world but don’t feel comfortable putting it out there yet. Meet her and her duck-assistant Selma. She also provides a procrastination vaccine in the form of this handy ebook, Dissolving Procrastination. Highly, highly recommended.
   
4. The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield. I’ve recommended this book to every writer I know. It’s particularly handy for people who claim to suffer from “writer’s block.” After reading this book, you won’t.
5. Infoguru Marketing Manual, by Robert Middleton. Download a free sample chapter here: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=550437
6. Writing coach Daphne Gray-Grant is the reigning brevity queen. Everyone who writes—that’s all of us—should sign up for her newsletter, Power Writing, immediately. Get it here: http://www.publicationcoach.com/sample-newsletter.php.
7. Looking for a virtual assistant with business smarts? Someone you can trust with everything from direct client contact to online marketing campaigns and research? I highly recommend mine, Robin Sagara. You can find her at http://robinsagara.com.