4 Secrets To Improve Your Writing

College is a great place to learn because you are practicing practicing practicing your copywriting.  This same principle should be applied in the real world over the duration of your career as a professional copywriter.  Here are 4 secrets you MUST know to improve your writing and ensure you are benefiting from your hard work and time spent. 

1. Reference Others

All marketing experts need a references file. This is a file containing sales letters and convincing copywriting samples by others that you think are effective and persuasive. You should not plagiarize them but you should refer to them and include their ideas in your own copywriting. 

     2.  Practice Practice Practice

It is okay if your not seeing millions of dollars right away. Practice is the perfect way to improve your skills and find out which styles suit you best and make you the most money. 


     3.  Understand your product, and your audience

Before you start, you should get to know the people who are involved in creating your products and your potential customers. You need to know what they want so that you can improve your killer copywriting and your sales pitch efforts to convince them your product is something they NEED. 

     4.   Have others critique your work

When writing your first attempt at new copy, get someone else to take a look at it. You need to check if they get the "I want to buy this" look in their eyes. If they do, you are successful. You need to know where their feelings are so that you can persuade them to purchase your products. Emotional appeals are the essential for successful Internet marketing. You need to know what your customers' hopes, aspirations, fears, dreams and likes and dislikes are in order to motivate them to buy your product.

It's also very important to have multiple people from different expert backgrounds to view the same piece of copywriting.  That way you can get different points of views in order to ensure your copy is as motivating as possible!

Marketing Yourself! It's OK to be Self-Centered!

I've basically started my blog out pumping information to you in order to ensure you have the basics to understand what I'm talking about and be able to apply what you are learning.   This blog WILL NOT be as boring as it was all last week =).  Now that you understand what SEO is and how to promote your work, you can now focus on what exactly you are going to write about.

Unfortunately, it can be really really difficult to find inspiration.  It is extremely important to know that in SEO and Internet Marketing, (just like Advertising and Product Development), you HAVE to be creative, fresh, and innovative. Not only do you have to write about something that the person wants to know about (keywords keywords keywords) you also have to keep them in suspense and enjoying what they are reading.

Successful copywriters are great at relating what they are writing about to each individual reader.  Wow! Talk about pressure! Most importantly, as a copywriter, it is important to do some self marketing and getting your name out there as a credible source for information.  A great way to do this is to write some Informational Articles and post them up on sites like:

http://ezinearticles.com/

http://www.1888articles.com

http://www.articlefeeder.com

Even if you are working for someone else, chances are you won't be working for them forever. Therefore, as a copywriter it is your job to prove yourself to be a credible source and writing articles is a great way to do this while also promoting your company, service, or product.

I'd like to use my blog to offer out writing tips, SEO advice, and short diary like stories about life. 

Feel free to leave a comment with topics or questions you have!