Copywriting that Sells

11 Tender Writing Sins ... Part One
Put simply, producing a winning tender is all about being able
to sell your company face to face and on paper. It's about
addressing the needs your .....

The first thing I learnt after writing my first copy was ' it all boils down to how much your copy sells. No matter how good it is, no matter if it beats Hemingway and Dickens in the efficient employment of language, if it does not sell, it is worthless.

Whenever you sit down to work on a new copy or edit an old one, just keep one thing in mind: how you can deliver 'the message' in minimum words. Remember that literature written for the sake of promoting a product or a service needs to be succinct and direct, and above all, understandable. The average reader of your literature is a person who is in a hurry. He/she is bombarded with similar messages already (and he/she might be cynical).

How To Write Good Articles For Profit
Writing cood articles to make money takes a certian kind of person becuse you need to switch from one subject to another in a matter of seconds and you also need to be an expert researcher to get the articles on .....

Keep the end result in mind and create the copy around that. Relinquish your inherent proclivities and biases, and just focus on the message. Present the copy in a way that it is highly informative, convincing, and compelling. Before sitting down to write, think of your target readership. Are they children' Are they housewives' Are they teenagers' Are they hardcore technocrats and scientists' Formulate your language and presentation according to that.

A method I find useful is, make a list of all the words that can be associated with the current copywriting project. It is fun, and it helps you create supersets, sets and subsets of your project.

Writing, Reading, Speaking, Talking
Finding the Sweet Spot in Dialogue Writing

Over the years I have heard complaints from various quarters'friends, students, and family'that even if they could write the story they've always wanted to tell, they could never get the .....

I have seen many copies where the creative writers lose focus, get carried away with their 'creativity', and end up creating a message that can win accolades as a piece of art, but makes no sale for the client. The way you present your message should not dominate the actual message. Your writing style should not impede the actual message and end up creating a distraction.

Entering And Winning Writing Contests
Visit any writing message board and you'll read discussion threads
on contests and competitions
for writers. The messages run the gamut of those who have been
scammed to those who .....

I myself am a writer. It is often extremely hard to resist the temptation of sprinkling the powder of my style on the copy, but I have to resist it for the sake of the message (and my income). I have learnt to become detached. I keep telling myself: it's just a copy for my client for which I'm getting paid, and it is not a piece of literature that I'm creating to further the cause of my art.

This is the age of information. I don't know if it is true or not, it used to take an entire life-time in the eighteenth century to process the amount of information we process in a single day. With so much information (most of it is junk, by the way) around, it becomes difficult both for the reader and the writer to pinpoint the right tone and pitch. With so much fraud around, it becomes difficult to establish credibility.

That's what differentiates you from the others. Project your message in a way that it immediately grabs attention.

In the morning I was watching 'Meet Joe Black' on HBO, (today is Sunday) and there was one scene in the movie when Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt were walking down a busy street. There were scores of people around them; still, they both were prominently visible even from a distance. I noticed that only they were wearing dark clothes. Everybody in the crowd wore light shaded clothes. I found the scene very fascinating. This is how a focus should be created. Your ......

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