Intro to Copywriting (Plus Some Advanced Stuff) - 0 views

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  #1 Freddie Schulz on 30 Jul 12

   

  A lot of online marketers and small businesses are working hard on doing their own copywriting. So many people hate to see or read sales letters and yet we insist on believing that they are easy until we have to write them ourselves. It's a classic example of far too many things going on in the kitchen and you just don't have a good idea about any of them. If you want to be the person who writes your site's content, though, you need to learn at least a few basic copywriting skills. Here are three important copywriting lessons you are going to find beneficial. Learning misterfong.com is very important and basic step for your affiliate, email and internet marketing strategies.
  
  There is a thing called AIDA (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) and right now we are going to talk about Interest. You aren't going to be able to make your copy go right from grabbing a person's attention to them having major desire, that's not how the process works. No matter what you've created, this will be a person's first time reading through it. It is important to warm them up by generating interest. Hopefully they will be targeted traffic so you'll have some interest already. But you cannot let them keep their interest light, you need to make them interested by talking about both the problem and the solution that you came up with. You've got plenty of options here but the main point is that everybody is trying
  to find the things they genuinely want and need.
  
  When you want your content or copy to be successful, graphics and images play giant roles here. Using graphics that aren't good or that aren't appropriate attracts attention and makes your readers slow down (but not in a good way). But you don't want to achieve the desired effect with poor image selection. It's easy to understand why you want to use them, they grab attention and automatically slow your readers down just enough. Using good graphics is obviously something you should do and using data to support your copy is also a good idea. You can use data tables and actual graphics with lines or bars. You need to put them in the proper spaces in your copy--right before or right after you actually talk about them within your text.
  
  You can do wonders with a USP (unique selling proposition) for your business. You see them pretty much everywhere on a variety of business products and, typically, they are absolute fails. They're failures because the person who thought of it had no idea what goes into a winning USP. There are a few different factors for your USP that you are going to need to communicate, so let's focus on what "unique" means. Unique has to be about both your service and your product and obviously it needs to be unique. Even when all you are doing is selling pizza, coming up with something truly unique is important. Focus on whatever it is that your competitors are unwilling or unable to offer but that you do. There are all sorts of ways that you can take care of this with your product or service, just sit down and think about it for a while.
  
  There is both an art and a science to copywriting and it is how you use these things that determines the level of success you can reach. But take your cues from the direction of your market that you are communicating with in your copy. That is how you figure out everything else so it can connect.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A lot of online marketers and small businesses are working hard on doing their own copywriting. So many people hate to see or read sales letters and yet we insist on believing that they are easy until we have to write them ourselves. It's a classic example of far too many things going on in the kitchen and you just don't have a good idea about any of them. If you want to be the person who writes your site's content, though, you need to learn at least a few basic copywriting skills. Here are three important copywriting lessons you are going to find beneficial. Learning <a href="http://misterfong.com/how-to-create-a-perpetual-email-list-building-machine" rel="nofollow">misterfong.com</a> is very important and basic step for your affiliate, email and internet marketing strategies.<br /><br />There is a thing called AIDA (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) and right now we are going to talk about Interest. You aren't going to be able to make your copy go right from grabbing a person's attention to them having major desire, that's not how the process works. No matter what you've created, this will be a person's first time reading through it. It is important to warm them up by generating interest. Hopefully they will be targeted traffic so you'll have some interest already. But you cannot let them keep their interest light, you need to make them interested by talking about both the problem and the solution that you came up with. You've got plenty of options here but the main point is that everybody is trying<br />to find the things they genuinely want and need. <br /><br />When you want your content or copy to be successful, graphics and images play giant roles here. Using graphics that aren't good or that aren't appropriate attracts attention and makes your readers slow down (but not in a good way). But you don't want to achieve the desired effect with poor image selection. It's easy to understand why you want to use them, they grab attention and automatically slow your readers down just enough. Using good graphics is obviously something you should do and using data to support your copy is also a good idea. You can use data tables and actual graphics with lines or bars. You need to put them in the proper spaces in your copy--right before or right after you actually talk about them within your text.<br /><br />You can do wonders with a USP (unique selling proposition) for your business. You see them pretty much everywhere on a variety of business products and, typically, they are absolute fails. They're failures because the person who thought of it had no idea what goes into a winning USP. There are a few different factors for your USP that you are going to need to communicate, so let's focus on what "unique" means. Unique has to be about both your service and your product and obviously it needs to be unique. Even when all you are doing is selling pizza, coming up with something truly unique is important. Focus on whatever it is that your competitors are unwilling or unable to offer but that you do. There are all sorts of ways that you can take care of this with your product or service, just sit down and think about it for a while. <br /><br />There is both an art and a science to copywriting and it is how you use these things that determines the level of success you can reach. But take your cues from the direction of your market that you are communicating with in your copy. That is how you figure out everything else so it can connect.</div>

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