Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Top 3 Tricks to Successful Copywriting

By Jean Delgado


For any person who desires a full-time online income, learning copywriting will be one of your best investments.

Most of the time copy should be less than obvious. There's plenty of bad copy on the net that is just the opposite. Your conversions will be terrible and depressing with this kind sales copy. People hate being sold, so you cannot do that in your copy. If your copy is poorly written, then you won't make any appreciable sales that will add up to much.

Copywriters like to use stories in a sales letters because they're a subtle but powerful part of bring the reader into the message. Remember: you do not want to be a shouty infomercial. Doing so will turn people off and that will be the end of it.

Headlines are scary for a reason. Your headlines are what will turn your site viewer into a reader or turn them away completely. Inexperienced copywriters usually write the loudest and boldest headlines. Their headlines are usually full of exclamation points and bold lettering, while lacking in creativity. A good headline will grab the reader's attention, entertain him for a minute and describe what you are about to tell him. Using only a few words, you have to do all this. Find headlines written by other marketers in your niche. What makes you want to keep reading? Which ones do you find annoying? You can consider this when you write headlines of your own.

Don't be afraid of humor. Having some humor and fun has worked in some letters. Humor can be skillfully used to help people to relax and let their defenses down a little bit. It's hard sometimes to predict what people will do, but if you can make them laugh a little it could make them feel a bit more comfortable and stay on your site. But you know... there's always a fine line between just right and overdoing it. And of course never try too hard with these things, it won't work.

Observe successful marketers in your niche. See how they approach their marketing in their website, etc. Why do you like these pages and sites? What is it about the writing you read that stands out to you? How does their sales copy and material compare to yours? Is there anything that turns you off, or on? This is how you can learn from others - not steal, but learn. Believe it or not, there is an art to copywriting. When you watch marketing videos, sales videos. they have scripts in them. That script could have, should have at least, been written by a copywriter. Copywriters are behind the writing in every single television commercial you see.

The only thing that has ever had continued success with selling is words, and you know who writes those words. It's your sales copy that really is the sun around which your business revolves. The thing about it is that it is not learned overnight. It's fine to hire writers for this, but you'll have a deeper understanding of your own business if you learn something about it. Then you'll at least be able to write your own copy if you don't have the money to outsource it.




About the Author:



0 comments:

Post a Comment