Get It In Writing

Volume II

September 19, 2007

Number 15

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Quick Tip:

Quick TipAs some of you know, I’ve recently made my 52 Tips e-book available. I’ve gotten some great feedback from people in business, including entrepreneurs, sales people and consultants, looking for effective but super-quick ways to improve their copywriting and marketing skills.

This book is a one-a-week kit of tips and tools for copywriters and do-it-yourself marketers. Here is a taste of the kinds of information you’ll get in this book:

Respect the strength.
Some words, terms and word combinations can be quite strong and effective. Let them stay that way and avoid bogging them down with nonsense and meaningless fluff.

Know thy audience.
To connect with your target, visit online gathering places – ones that your customers are likely to go – and pay attention to what they have to say, what interests them, what business issues concern them. Read their trade magazines as well. Then familiarize yourself with features and benefits that your customers appreciate. Finally, address these issues and use your audience’s terminology in your copy.

If you want the order, ask for it!
Let’s say you have a fabulous product… the greatest thing since sliced bread, a better mousetrap, whatever. But no matter how great it is, you will still have to ask for the order and tell your reader just what to do. You must tell your prospects exactly how to order and tell them to do it now. In other words, make it as easy as possible for them to buy from you and immediately start enjoying your product's or service’s benefits.

Want more quick tips to use today? Click here to order 52 Tips.

I have been meaning to ask you for some time if and how you are using and taking advantage of online networking (aka “social media” or “social marketing”) sites?

This includes sites like MySpace, LinkedIn and Ryze as well as countless others depending on your business, social goals and age, such as Facebook, Second Life, You Tube and countless (and I mean countless!) others.

(By the way, I’m asking solely from a business standpoint, not from a social, dating or personal relationship standpoint! So no stories about match.com, eHarmony or JDate...please!)

What have you been doing? What’s working? How, if at all, have you been able to monetize (love that word!) these online tools and gathering places? Let me know here and I will start including your comments (with links to your website, MySpace page, whatever you want) in upcoming blog entries.

This is an exciting time, with new and still-not-totally-mapped territory. So as you make your mark, let me know about it!

Until next time….

Yours In Success,

Allison
Allison Nazarian

 
 

What’s inspiring us today…

Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself.. anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

- Donald Trump

 

 

 

 

Read the article in the current issue of INC Magazine featuring Get It In Writing’s Allison Nazarian as “The Packager.”

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