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Are You Sabotaging Your Marketing Success?
What?!? Sabotage your own success? Who would do that? Well, you'd be surprised how many small business owners think they are effectively marketing their business, when in fact they are cutting their own throat. Yes, they may be running ads that...
become an opt-in marketing master
Opt-in e-mail marketing is a great way to truly target your market audience. It has one of the lowest costs compared to traditional direct marketing methods, since you eliminate the expense of printing, postage and so on. It can produce the...
How to Get a 100% Return on Your Marketing Investment Guaranteed!
One of the most effective ways to market your products/services is to create strategic alliances. Strategic alliances are partnerships with companies who sell to a client base similar to yours but they sell different products/services. The idea is...
Non-Stop Marketing Machine
What is the best way to market your company? How can you generate more sales? Use these ideas to develop your company's most effective sales tool, your web site. Company Information: Provide information about your company and products - List your...
The Ninth Law of Gravitational Marketing for Small Businesses: Successful Marketers Don't Use Guesswork As A Marketing Strategy.
Louis Gerstner, chairman of IBM, says "you can't manage anything that you can't measure."
Obvious, yet profound.
As we said before, traditional advertising generally only works by chance. The truth is, all advertising is a guess. What works...
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How to Write Killer Marketing Copy
Written words are a powerful marketing tool. They have the ability to persuade, reason, explain & direct the reader to take action. They can hold someone's imagination and open them up to possibilities never before visualized. But used improperly or without due care & attention they can destroy all the good work you have done in one foul swoop.
Developing copy for your website is therefore a job that should not be taken on lightly. Here are 5 keys to help hold your readers' attention and convert them to sales and sign-ups on your site -
1) Your Headliner - It takes a matter of seconds for visitors to form an opinion of your site. Many factors will come into play, such as speed of download, graphics etc, so you'll need to grab their attention quickly before they click off the site. A few words that stand out from the background, graphics and the rest of your text will draw the readers' eye - this is your chance to make an impact and keep them on the site. It should be something that compels the reader to want to find out more.
2) Develop Interest - Identify with the reader and let them know that you understand how they feel about the challenges they face. Hint that you have a solution to their problem. This will hook your visitor in, and you can enhance its effect by using keywords and hot buttons to fire the reader's'
desire to find out more.
3) Reveal the details - Show the reader your solution and how it will solve their problems and/or meet their goals. Then hit them with additional benefits as to how what you have to offer will exceed their expectations. Use testimonials that verify the strength of the product or service you are offering. Again use keywords and hot buttons that appeal to the readers' emotions, and remember people buy on emotion not logic.
4) Call to Action - No marketing copy is complete without a strong call to action. It is the final push to close the sale that should be lined with incentives. The benefits should be highlighted and the reader urged to take action. You could even mention the consequences of not taking action - a deal always looks better when someone is taking it back away from you!
5) Be Professional! - In the eyes of the reader, the professionalism of your copy reflects the professionalism of its owner, and the more professional it is the more confident the reader is of you and your intentions. Make sure you run copy through a grammar & spell checker before uploading it to your site.
About the Author
Scott F. Geld is the Director of Marketing for Marketing Blaster, Inc., a firm dedicated to providing targeted traffic and leads for ecommerce websites: http://www.MarketingBlaster.com
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