Copywriting That Exposes You as a Flawed Human Being Will Resonate with Your Readers
Are you a business owner or CEO, who still believes you have to maintain a strong, almost perfect image in the market place, in order to WIN approval of your customers? I don’t think that’s a good strategy at all — in fact, I think it’s a losing one! First of all, people are people. [...]
Continue Reading →Copywriter’s Tip: How to ‘Attract’ New Customers, Instead of Browbeating Them.
Hello, It’s a Terrific Tuesday, and I’d like to talk about how we can ‘attract’ more business, customers or clients, instead of dragging them by the hair and forcing them to buy what we’re selling. Or begging and pleading with them. Put another way: How NOT to be a used car salesman. You know the [...]
Continue Reading →A Copywriter’s View on Ben Franklin, the Writer
The first things most of us think about when we hear the name, Benjamin Franklin, may be his crucial role in the colonies’ rebellion against Great Britian or his vital contribution as a member of the Continental Congress. Or as a senior member of the Constitutional Convention. But few probably associate Ben Franklin as a [...]
Continue Reading →Copywriters are Really Mind Doctors
An effective copywriter has to understand the human psyche before she can craft sales and marketing messages that will elicit a desired response. Assuming either the copywriter, or another marketing guru, has pinpointed the perfect profile for the target audience … it is then the job of the copywriter to write to this person in [...]
Continue Reading →Do You Know Your Customers’ “WHY”?
Take the time to find out what your customers’ “why” is … why they want what they want. What is important to them and why? That is the question.
Continue Reading →Do Your Marketing Messages Really Connect with Your Customers, in a Way They Can Feel?
Are your marketing messages genuinely connecting with your customers, or prospects, in a way that shows you understand their challenges, during these hard, economic times?
Continue Reading →A Copywriter’s Saturday
Life’s experiences make me a more empathetic person. Being empathetic, makes me better able to connect with people from the heart.
Continue Reading →Effective Copywriting — Hyperbole or Just Emphatic Truths?
I recently read a post at Ryan Healy’s blog, which was talking about ‘hype’ in copy. Oh, just in case anyone reads this, who is unfamiliar with the use of the word, copy, I am referring to words … language that’s used to elicit a specific response from readers … namely to buy something! The [...]
Continue Reading →A Copywriter’s Thoughts Today — July 14, 2008
Oh my, where does the time go? I’m so embarrassed to say it’s been … what, about three weeks, since I blogged. Oy vey, what will the ‘blog police’ have to say about my derelict behavior! Aaahh, it’s OK because I really don’t have a following anyway. In fact, it’s rare that I get comments [...]
Continue Reading →Effective Copywriting Uses the KISS Principle
Have you ever read a marketing message, attempting to sell something … but it used stiff, proper language that only an English professor would appreciate? Most good copywriters know to use simple words and to talk to a prospect like we’d talk to a friend or to use ‘barstool conversation’ — the way you’d talk to [...]
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