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Spice up your copy with a good bit of personification

Spice up your copy with a good bit of personification

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Miguel Ferreira
Sep 23, 2022
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Facts are facts. But fact stating isn't copywriting, that's journalism.

As ad legend Bill Bernbach once said about the copywriter's job, "Our job is to bring the dead facts to life."

A classic writing technique advertising copywriters use to bring dead product facts to life is personification.

The real beauty of using personification is that it lets you sp…

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