May 2010

How to write your own sales copy: a 5-step formula

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If you’re selling your own products on the web, or promoting affiliate products, then you need to produce compelling sales copy. Ideally, you would hire a professional copywriter to do this for you. But what if you can’t afford one, and simply have to produce your own sales page? In this post, I’m going to give you a formula for producing sales copy for use on the web. If you simply want to produce an effective sales page, this will get you started.

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How to write a press release: don’t

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The secret to writing a great press release is simple: don’t set out to write a press release. Create an article, direct for the end readership you are targeting. Once you’ve got a killer idea, you now need to make life as easy as possible for the journalists and editors, by giving all the information they want and need, with none of fluff and blatant self-promotion that they loathe.

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Puppets: the no 1 worst mistake you can make in your writing … or your business

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Whatever you are writing, it’s not about you. It’s not what you want to say that matters, it’s the reader that’s important. How will they benefit from reading this? What insights will they take from it? What will they learn? Why should they care?

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7 surefire ways to write an opening paragraph

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How to write opening paragraphs: 7 surefire techniques used by direct response copywriters

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How to have ideas – the 7 steps to creativity

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How to have ideas, the 7 steps to creativity formula, in brief, with links to the whole thing over on Write to Done.

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