Sunday, March 27, 2011

Writing Sales Copy the Wise Way

By Bob Blackburn


Copywriting is literally one of the most worthy proficiencies that any online marketer can hold. If you have the desire to attain high conversions out of your merchandise and watch if fly like hotcakes, then paying attention to your copy should be the initial thing on your to-do list. Before you even start to improve upon this skill, it's very important for you to comprehend the disparity between writing and copywriting - not all writers can be copywriters, where each copywriter is a writer by default. The copy you put together has a job to perform, and that is to sway your target audience to take some type of action; if it is a flop at doing that, then it is not a sales copy, but rather simple content. The purpose of this article is to show you how you can apply a few things and make your copywriting skills even more efficient.

First and foremost, as a copywriter, everything you write has a purpose. Every sentence that you write has an aim and that is to make the prospect fall towards the desired action. Whether it's the headline, sub headline or a simple bullet point, it should take the prospect towards that most wanted action. The reader should be able to just look at a few points on the copy and get to the call to action without a break. There should not be anything present in your sales copy that puzzles your prospect and breaks up the momentum in any way. Each item has to build up to the next one, until they get to the point where you want them to be. Curiosity has a way of making people read an entire sales copy, so utilize it to your advantage.

In order to get people to want to read your entire sales copy, baiting their curiosity is probably the best way. A good way to achieve this is to tell them a story they connect with. Produce an appealing story and get your prospects closer to the call to action. So in a way, being an efficient copywriter also means that you have to tell good stories. The reader should be really into the next few steps. This type of thing does not occur with corporate reports. No wonder they do not get read.

Last, use something from other copywriters. Well, don't really steal it, but use a few of their ideas for your own sales copy. Successful copywriters have their own swipe file where they save the works of other copywriters so that they can adapt from them, and get their ideas going. Learning from other sales copies is not a bad thing. Besides, you should concentrate and test various parts of the copy on your own. See to it that you're not getting stagnant. The best thing you can do to get a higher conversion rate is to swipe a few ideas and then tweak a few of them for your own.

This article explains that if you want to be a successful copywriter, then you have to start thinking like a copywriter. This mindset will only come to you once you start to put these little tactics into action and aim to get long term results. Even if you have created a sales copy previously, it does not matter now. As long as you can commit to working on your skill and perfecting your craft, things will only get better.?




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