How to Write Effective Web Copy
Most web designers (people
who design and build web sites) won't tell you how important web copy is. Although web
design plays a crucial role in converting prospects (visitors
who may become customers) into customers, your web copy plays an even more important
role in generating online sales. Graphics (pictures)
may capture your visitors' attention first, but you need powerful copy to entice them to
buy from you.
Here are some tips to make your web copy effective:
• Talk to your audience. Focus on your audience. Talk your audience's language.
Address your audience in your headline or first paragraph.
• Make your copy personal by using a friendly, conversational tone. Write like you're
talking to a friend.
• Get to the point right away. Make it clear what your web site is about. If they
don't read it, then they weren't interested in the first place.
• Mention the most important information first. They may not read it if you don't
mention it right away.
• Emphasize important words, headlines, and sentences by using color, bold, and
different text sizes, but do so sparingly.
• Mail order advertisers have told us for years, "The more you tell, the more
you sell." They are right. People will read long copy. They just won't read boring
copy. If they are interested, you can't tell them enough. As long as your copy is
interesting, it doesn't matter how long it is.
• Make your copy interesting. One way of doing that is by telling a story.
• Appeal to your prospects' emotions, e.g. feeling of pride, fear, greed, sadness,
anger, or love. You can evoke emotion in your reader by providing vivid details so that
your prospects see, hear, smell, taste and feel. This creates images in the reader's mind.
Copywriters are trained to write words that will touch emotions and create a desire for a
product or service. Then they use features and facts to back up the emotion and justify
the purchase.
• Use power words. Power words elicit emotions and create visual pictures in your
readers' mind. They have proven to attract attention, motivate prospects to buy, and
increase sales. Use them in your web site’s headlines and copy. A few examples are:
free, you, new, discover, amazing, breakthrough, latest, proven, guarantee, money, top,
secret, act now, save, how to, easy, reveal, insider, and success.
• Use action verbs. A call to action such as "call now," "order
now" and "click here" can dramatically increase your sales. Motivate
readers to do what you want them to do with action verbs. Give precise instructions. Tell
them exactly what to do. Give them a direct order, but add an incentive or benefit to your
order.
• Use simple language.
• Use short sentences and paragraphs.
• Break up your copy into short, easy-to-read sections and use subheadings (headings within headings) to highlight benefits.
• Back up your claims.
• Include "you" more than "I" or "me" or
"our."
• Give specifics. For example mention 97.4% vs. 100%.
Here are some important elements to
include in your web copy:
• Provide a compelling, benefit-oriented headline.
• Include benefits throughout your copy. Use bulleted lists to make your benefits
easy to read.
• Provide solutions.
• Include product information. Give tips on how to buy your product, what your
products or services can do, to whom your products or services may be useful, how
customers might use your products or services, and what results buyers will get from using
your products and services.
• Give enough information to help your potential customers make an informed decision.
• Tips for buying your products or services
.
• Give them what they want instead of what they need.
• Include bonuses.
• Include testimonials from satisfied buyers.
• Include contact information.
• Remove doubts with a money-back guarantee.
• Include case studies.
• Include statistics.
• Include answers to frequently asked questions and potential objections.
• Summarize your offer.
• Motivate them to buy now by including a limited time offer. (e.g. Price goes up in 24hours)
• Include a call to action telling them exactly what you want them to do. Give a
command. For example, "Click here now to get this course absolutely risk-free."
• Include several compelling order links throughout the copy. Use simple terms for
your navigation buttons and links that visitors will recognize such as "home,"
"order," and "contact."
• Include a P.S. (a short note added to the end
of your copy after you have signed off)
Writing powerful copy is the first and most important step toward web sales.
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