Copywriting

The 3 C’s of Copywriting

There are a lot of different ways you can write effective copy. There are many different formulas and styles you can choose to use. However, if you want to write great copy then you have to follow the 3 C’s of copywriting. The 3 C’s are clear, concise, and compelling.

Clear

The first of the 3 C’s of copywriting is to be clear. This is something you need to remember throughout your copy. Be clear with your writing at all times. You don’t want people to have to work to understand what it is you’re trying to say. Quite simply, people won’t work to read it. They’ll just click off of the page.

Concise

The second of the 3 C’s is to be concise. You don’t want to make your copy any longer than it has to be. Yes, the more money you’re asking for, the longer your copy normally needs to be. But this doesn’t mean you want to ramble on without any purpose. So, be concise and don’t write one more word than you need to write.

Compelling

The last of the 3 C’s for copywriting are to make the copy compelling. You need to get the reader to be a paying customer. And the way to do this is to make your copy compelling. Make your reader want and need to have what you’re selling.

The 3 C’s of copywriting are to be clear, to be concise, and to be compelling. If you want to have any chance at writing copy that sells then you need to always remember the 3 C’s for copywriting. And you need to be sure to always follow these 3 C’s.

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Copywriting

The Key To Successful eBook Selling

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As I’ve said before in previous posts, it all comes down to your sales letter. If your sales letter doesn’t convert, nothing else matters.

One of the biggest keys to developing an effective sales page for your product lies in stressing the benefits of your product, not its features.

If you put a benefits driven sales page before a group of hungry buyers you will make some sales.

What is a benefits driven sales page? It is one that identifies a problem the people in a particular niche have and then offers them a solution to that problem.

The people reading your sales page don’t really care how many pages your ebook has, or what font you’ve used, or what color your headline is.

What they want to know is, “What’s in it for me?” And what’s in it for them relates to the benefits of your product.

You need to spell those benefits out, not in a way that makes sense to you, but in a way that makes sense to them. They are not familiar with your product so you have to clearly explain exactly what the benefits will be to them.

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Copywriting, Miscellaneous

Pumping Conversions From Your Sales Page

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The single most important facet of your sales or marketing funnel is your sales page itself. If your sales page doesn’t convert–nothing else matters.

In a screenplay or novel authors use what are called plot points to drive the story forward. There may be half a dozen major plot points with many more minor ones.

The plot points drive the reader forward and create a tension or expectation for a resolution to the crisis within the story.

We can think of a sales page as a novel. The copywriter develops a story and hinges that story around half a dozen or so key plot points to drive the sales message forward.

Once the plot points of the sales message are identified, intermediary text can be added to carry the reader form one key point to the next.

The key plot points in a sales letter could include 1. I am a lot like you, 2. I had a problem just like you, 3. I found a solution to that problem, and 4. here is the solution and I am willing to share it with you.

Of course the solution to that problem involves the product you are promoting. One key to an effective sales letter is that each sentence must cue the reader up to the next sentence. Each paragraph must lead the reader to the next paragraph.

Tension must build through the course of the sales page until the point is reached where the copywriter states something like, “Then it hit me like a ton of bricks–the solution to my problem.”

Here the writer discloses the solution to the problem the reader has and begins pouring on the benefits of the product being sold.

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