A lot of famous direct marketers have been saying that the most valuable skill you will ever learn is copywriting. You can disagree with that, but you’d still be wrong if you took an honest look. Copywriting is at the heart of every last promotion, advertisement and piece of marketing in existence. Even the higher end content articles that get syndicated employ certain copywriting techniques. The Internet has become so evolved that even content, basic content, needs to use copywriting techniques or the article isn’t going to be very successful. There are a few reliable and fast tools accessible if you want to check back links for your sites or blogs.
A major part of AIDA is desire; sales do not happen unless this exists because humans are emotional buyers. Benefit bullets, for example, are a great way to help you build your readers’ desire. This is a necessary aspect of your equation and you need to make sure that your bullets are written to create a huge impact on the reader. You can also easily build desire by using stories to illustrate the ways through which your solution can help them make their problems go away.
There are lots of ways to create desire, and your job is to figure out the best way in your copy. That’s when you need to figure out which emotion you should appeal to the most. One of the biggest emotions to play on when you need to do the problem/solution technique is fear. You can try to create fear by talking about the potential for loss and other things.
Graphics and images play a huge role in successful copy, both in terms of sales and regular web content. Using graphics that aren’t good or that aren’t appropriate attracts attention and makes your readers slow down (but not in a good way). You don’t want to get the effect you want through poor graphic selection. This is why images are important, they get attention and simultaneously slow down your readers just a tiny bit. It goes without saying that you will want to employ relevant graphics and it is possible to support your copy with data. You can employ both graphs and data tables. If at all possible, you need to put your images right before you talk about them and right after them if it isn’t.
So, do you believe that your copywriting is what will make you money? Copywriting is actually about third in terms of what really matters. The most powerful section of your copy is your offer and that does not surprise anybody because there are several things that come into play. First, money is always uppermost in the minds of people when contemplating a purchase. The next thing they wonder is "what’s in it for me?" Buyers want to know how much value they will be getting for their money. Make no mistake, it is the offer that gets the sale, not the copy. The second thing on that list is the quality of the traffic flowing in. If you do your homework and keep at it, eventually you will come to understand that copywriting isn’t exactly a difficult subject. Most of the battle is going to be remembering everything that you have learned. And the other half is knowing how to use it and when because there’s a time and place for everything in your copy.