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Neil W.J. Smith

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in Melbourne, Australia

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Bill Bernbach, Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, Wayne Dyer, Ben Franklin.

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MY FIRST TIP: DO WHAT YOU LOVE WHATEVER IT TAKES. SECOND TIP: TAKE ONE STEP AND THE NEXT MOVE WILL COME TO YOU IF IT'S RIGHT. THIRD TIP: IF IT DOESN'T, MOVE ON. As an innocent teenager I replied to an ad for 'FREE WRITING TESTS' and was overwhelmed to receive a pass (well, of course I did) plus an invitation to enrol in a correspondence course on copywriting. I was so disappointed that I couldn't afford to do the course. Soon after, on leaving high school, I landed a job as a messenger boy in the advertising department of a large Melbourne retail sore. So began my writing career which led me through some of the hottest ad agencies culminating in my own one-man freelance copywriting business. I had a priceless hands-on course in writing. My ...more

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It was habit.

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