Long copy versus short copy… which converts better? The answer is often debated, but there’s only one truth when it comes to copy length. It depends. Depending on your product, target market, advertising medium, goals of your copy, and a million other factors, the length that’s most effective will vary.…
Poke around the Internet and you’ll find articles and blogs detailing the death of copy and, much to my chagrin, copywriters. Writing in USA Today, Michael Wolff states: “We just don’t look at advertising, respond to it, or believe it, as much as we once did, wherever it appears. Maybe…
When I’m in the mood to buy a product or service, and it’s a significant purchase, I’m going to visit a website and/or visit a store. If I get to a store and the sales assistants are generally bored and disinterested, I’m walking out. If I visit a website and I…
The top copywriters earn more than top doctors. This may seem crazy as doctors save lives and copywriters put words on a page—but it’s true. According to an article in Forbes, the top paying medical specialty is orthopedic surgery with an average annual salary of $464,500; next was invasive cardiology…
If you’re writing copy, you’re not writing. You’re selling. And to sell a product or service, you must understand some basic selling skills. One of these is understanding your potential client. You might think you have a decent sense of who they are and you might have some demographic or…
You’ve heard the old cliché, “A picture is worth a 1,000 words.” If this saying were true in marketing, every landing page would comprise blocks and blocks of photos with very little copy. Oh wait! That’s Pinterest, not a landing page. You’ve probably noticed, the overwhelming majority of web pages…
My mentor in this crazy world of direct response copywriting was Andrew Wood, also known as “The Legend.” An excellent marketer and copywriter, Andrew hired me to write some copy and he gave me a checklist… One item: Always answer the most important question the customer is asking: What’s in…
Hipster is sort of a dated and overdone term, but we all understand what it means. A hipster is someone who’s super cool, ahead of the times, and has a little bit of an edge. A hipster is found at an underground club in an indie urban neighborhood, rather than…
No, it’s not about Verdi’s Opera. AIDA stands for: Attention Interest Desire Action If you’re new to copywriting, or you’re a copywriter staring at a blank page, the AIDA copywriting formula is an “old standard” that routinely produces rock-solid results. You can use AIDA for every type of direct response…
