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Resources for Copywriting
Copywriting is the art of writing better sales letters and advertising
materials.
Here are a few copywriting resources to get you started:
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By Marcia Yudkin
Creative Ways Publishing Paperback (188 pages)
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Product Description: Unleash the Power of Words to Sell It's easier to attract potential customers and persuade them to buy when you understand your audience and respect the nuances of language. Discover how to select tone, details, imagery, numbers, facts, verb tenses, punctuation, pronouns and more to create rapport and inspire an opt-in, an inquiry or a sale. Whether you're an aspiring copywriter, a write-it-yourself business owner or a product manager hunting for a competitive edge, you'll want to devour veteran wordsmith Marcia Yudkin's advice on strategies that sell. Vivid examples and vignettes from research studies illustrate her tips. Marcia Yudkin is the author of 6 Steps to Free Publicity, now in its third edition, and 11 other books. "There are few genuine thought leaders in the field of copywriting. Marcia Yudkin is one of them. The strategies she presents in Meatier Marketing Copy are all easy to understand and implement, yet profoundly insightful. If you want to write marketing copy that sizzles and sells, this book is a must-read." - Steve Slaunwhite, Author, Start & Run a Copywriting Business, Co-Author, The Wealthy Freelancer "Marcia Yudkin is a genius at writing copy that gets read and makes sales. This brilliant book reveals her proven secrets, tips, tricks and more. I have 30 years experience as a copywriter and found gems in here I didn't know or had forgotten. Read Meatier Marketing Copy - It's got the beef!" - Joe Vitale, Author, Hypnotic Writing, Buying Trances, Attract Money Now and many other books |
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By Teressa Iezzi
Palgrave Macmillan Released: 2010-12-07 Paperback (224 pages)
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This book is a must read for any copywriter and anyone looking to understand the new realities of the brand creativity business. A memorable slogan has been the cornerstone of every great ad campaign. In the past, writing one great headline could launch a career. But today's advertising campaigns are interactive, multi-platform and ongoing, and the copywriter's canvas is vast. At any given time, a copywriter may be conceiving a video game, writing a TV show, maintaining a Twitter feed, creating a mobile app or an interactive installation or, yes, writing a headline or a TV script.
While the best copywriters have always been brand storytellers, now that story can play out anywhere. The digital revolution put control in the hands of the people - the audience - now no longer just consumers, but active participants in a brand's story. The art and science of advertising has gone from creating one-way messages to engaging audiences in ongoing conversations. A new ad landscape means new opportunities for writers who now have the incredible opportunity to push brand narrative to places it's never been before and to actually create something so useful or entertaining that it generates its own audience. It also means that many of the rules of the past - while exceedingly worthy of study - are insufficient to guide the modern copywriter. Co-published with AdvertisingAge, The Idea Writers outlines the changing landscape of the advertising industry while providing useful how-to advice.
Filled with interviews from top creatives including: Greg Hahn, Nick Law, Jeff Benjamin, Tim Delaney, Rei Inamoto, Lee Clow, Steve Simpson, Rick Condos, David Droga, Gerry Graf, Ty Montague, Calle and Pelle Sjonell, PJ Pereira, David Abbott and many more!
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By Angela Kaelin
Angela Kaelin Released: 2011-01-23 Kindle Edition (43 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: If you've ever dreamed of working from home and being your own boss, then freelance copywriting for the web is a way to make your dream come true fast.
Freelance copywriting for the web is the quickest and easiest ways to go into the freelance writing business for yourself and begin earning a living quickly. You don't need a college degree and you don't need a resume. "Writers' Fast Track to Freelance Copywriting" shows you how to get started now.
If you have some basic writing and sales skills, you can get started in a matter of a few days with just the information in this little book.
The first half explores modern copywriting and the major aspects of digital marketing you need to know as a modern freelance copywriter. The second half, shows you everything you need to get your business started and tells you how most freelance web copywriters find work.
Better than that, it tells you, in a no-nonsense fashion, how to really get the best jobs and the best clients fast.
If you're ready to hit the ground running as a freelance copywriter for the web, this book is for you.
Table of Contents
Foreword I. Freelance Copywriting for the Web 1. Why Copywriting for the Web? 2. What is Copywriting? 3. Web Content 4. What is SEO? 5. Landing Pages 6. Sales Letters 7. How to Write a Sales Letter 8. Conversion Rates 9. Swap Files 10. Web Advertising Campaigns 11. Article marketing 12. Resource Box: How to Make People Click Your Links 13. How to Create Articles for the Purpose of Attracting Web Traffic 14. Newsletters 15. How To Build an Opt-in List for E-mail Marketing 16. The CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business 17. Social Networking 18. Press Releases 19. White papers
II. Your Freelance Copywriting Business 20. Getting Started 21. Professional Web Site 22. Your Office 23. Your Services 24. Taxes 25. Creating a Business Entity 26. How to Get Copywriting Jobs 27. How to Get the Best Jobs and the Best Copywriting Clients 28. How to Cold Call 29. Dealing with Clients 30. Fees 31. Contracts 32. Invoices 33. Time Management 34. The Road to Financial Freedom
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By Craig Garber
kingofcopy.com Paperback (364 pages)
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- Are you an entrepreneur or salesperson who needs more qualified leads? How about converting your existing leads into paying customers and clients, much faster?
- Are you a doctor, financial services, or other trade professional, who's always dreamed of having effortless, 'almost magic-like' marketing that'll have your daily planner filled with appointments?
- Do you own a jewelry store, dry cleaners, or other retail establishment you'd love to see packed with paying customers?
- Have you had it 'up to here' with clients who demand first-class service, even though they're on a Wal-Mart budget? Do you want to avoid tire-kickers who shop around for the lowest prices in town or online, and instead, only deal with ultra-rich clients who are thrilled to be working with someone of your caliber?
If you answered 'Yes!' to any of these questions, or if you just want to make a LOT of money, very quickly, then this is the most exciting and important book you will ever read. Often compared to Eugene Schwartz 'Breakthrough Advertising,' inside you'll discover: - How Garber made $578,463 in one year with a small list of customers, without spending a dime on advertising and almost all at 90% profit. Garber shows you how to at least double your sales, whether you work online, offline, or both. Not by begging JV's or affiliates to promote you, but by using fresh new ideas that work in ANY business.
- On page 42, you'll uncover the single greatest secret weapon for making money in any business. How powerful is this secret? Quite simply, it is the best source of ongoing and predictable income, referrals and repeat business, in the world. And, it has almost zero downside risk.
- What about advertising? Are you sick and tired of running online and offline ads that never get the kind of responses you want? Is your website more like a ghost town than a bustling freeway, filled with traffic? Don't worry, Chapter 23, How To Write A Sales Letter That Sells, gives you the blueprint to designing compelling ads that'll have your buyers lined up and practically begging you to take their money. Garber walks you through the 12 proven items you MUST include in every ad or sales letter, to make them perform as reliably as a Swiss watch.
- As you know, there are only three ways to make more money: Raise your prices, get more customers, or increase the value of your average transaction size. In Chapter 12, you'll discover a simple strategy (which takes less than 5 minutes to implement) that gets up to 98.4% of your customers to spend more money with you, every time they buy.
- How to sell products and services for much higher prices and profit margins than your competition! The secret to charging top-dollar is knowing how to 'position' yourself in the marketplace. And this is much easier to do than you think, as you'll see in Chapter 10, How To Become Number One In Your Industry.
- Why conventional business and marketing advice is useless, because it revolves around exchanging time for money. Look, whenever you're trading time for money, your income is limited by the amount of time you're either willing, or are physically able, to work. Garber reveals 2 simple strategies (pages 135 and 321) that leverage your time and multiply your effort, so your cash-flow is no longer tied to how long or how hard you can work. Result: a lot less work... and a lot more money.
Listen, 'hoping' things get better, won't work. Hope is not a good business strategy. In times like this, you need to think smarter, not work harder, and this book shows you exactly how to do this. |
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By Mark Shaw
Laurence King Publishers Paperback (216 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Creating effective copywriting is of vital importance in today's design and communication industries. Well-targeted copy and a strong brand voice are essential if you want to stand out from the competition.
Copywriting shows how to write for all formats and contexts, from catalogs and products to advertising and websites. It explores the challenges of commercial writing, providing the tools to become a confident andversatile copywriter.
Leading industry talents from both the US and UK are interviewed, major campaigns covering all areas of the industry are illustrated in color and examined in depth, and exercises and tips aid in developing writing, editing, and presentation skills.
Revealing the secrets of this rapidly expanding profession, Copywriting provides the skills and techniques that will help you to thrive in the world of creative commercial writing. |
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By Bob Stone
McGraw-Hill Hardcover (592 pages)
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Direct marketing has grown beyond its roots in traditional mail order to embrace a host of new technologies, customer relationship-building techniques, and performance measures. Today, businesses and nonprofits of all kinds use direct marketing, which now garners 25% of the U.S. marketer's budget, surpassing newspapers and broadcast TV. Hailed as the “bible” of direct marketing for over 30 years, Successful Direct Marketing Methods has been completely updated and expanded with all the latest tools and techniques needed for success in today's digital, multi-channel marketplace. Written by world-renowned direct marketing experts Bob Stone and Ron Jacobs, the Eighth Edition of Successful Direct Marketing Methods contains major revisions to chapters on the creative process, fully covering the development of direct mail advertising, catalogs, and print advertising. The Eighth Edition also explores such new topics as: - The expanding objectives of direct marketing in the digital age
- Techniques for optimizing customer acquisition, up-selling and cross-selling, reducing defections, extending loyalty, and improving retention
- CRM applications, data mining, call center, campaign management, and sales force automation
- Customer experience management--connecting customers and brands at every touch point
- Brand building with direct marketing tools and techniques
- The growth of direct marketing in Europe, Asia, and Latin America
- Methods of international marketing--both direct and telemarketing
Successful Direct Marketing Methods offers professionals a comprehensive roadmap for direct marketing success across today's multiple marketing channels. |
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By Joseph Sugarman
Wiley Paperback (360 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Great copy is the heart and soul of the advertising business. In this practical guide, legendary copywriter Joe Sugarman provides proven guidelines and expert advice on what it takes to write copy that will entice, motivate, and move customers to buy. For anyone who wants to break into the business, this is the ultimate companion resource for unlimited success. |
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By Gery Deer
GLD Enterprises Commercial Writing Released: 2010-09-01 Kindle Edition
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Click Here | Product Description: The Featured Home advertisement is a perfect venue for promoting the best a sale property has to offer home shoppers. Unfortunately, these types of articles are often written quickly and poorly done. Copywriting For Real Estate Advertising is a short ebook that offers tips and information on how to develop a featured home article that will draw in buyers. Written by award-nominated copywriter and freelance journalist, Gery L. Deer (the Concierge Copywriter), this book can help get you started on featured home stories that catch and hold a reader turning shoppers into buyers! |
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By Paul Lima
Paul Lima Presents Released: 2011-05-08 Kindle Edition
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Click Here | Product Description: Copywriting That Works: Bright Ideas to Help You Inform, Persuade, Motivate and Sell. If you want to master the craft of writing advertising and promotional copy that informs, persuades, motivates and sells, then this book is for you. It will guide you through the process of producing copy that works - no matter your objective or target market. From branding to hard sell, from newspaper and magazine ads to direct response marketing, from Google ads to website copy and social media, Copywriting That Works... works! The book will show you how to: develop concepts that command your target market's attention; write headlines, body copy and calls to action that hit your mark and meet your objectives; apply creative and linear copywriting concepts to newspaper and magazine ads, direct response brochures and to Google ads for Web copy and social media, including blogs. In a step-by-step approach, this practical, easy-to-follow book shows you the importance of: determining your purpose, defining your target market, knowing your unique selling proposition before you write, and differentiating between brand awareness and hard sell and between features and benefits. In addition, Copywriting That Works includes a bonus chapter on how to optimize websites for the best Search Engine results. |
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By Tom Trush
Released: 2011-04-22 Kindle Edition (54 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: These days, getting your prospects' attention requires a marketing message that's relevant, useful and immediate. Unfortunately, most companies use their marketing messages to focus on personal goals, while giving minimal attention to potential customers’ problems.
When you consider the thousands of marketing messages contending for your prospects’ attention each day, you can understand why self-centered promotional materials are so easy to ignore. After all, why would prospects care about your company’s objectives when they want to achieve their own?
Effective communication targets your prospects’ needs and desires -- and is delivered in a way that requires them to put forth as little effort as possible.
Remember, you don’t have the luxury of time. Your prospects are so overwhelmed by marketing messages that your communication must cut through the clutter and offer something more compelling than your competition.
In "How to Create a Powerful Marketing Message That Generates Leads," you’ll discover ...
• The missing piece in most marketing messages that allows you to establish closer relationships, gain greater trust and, ultimately, generate more sales.
• How to use the 2 most critical elements in a marketing relationship to subconsciously persuade your prospects without them knowing it.
• 6 characteristics shared by prospects in all industries and how you can use them so prospects perceive your product or service as being better than anything your competition could ever offer.
• An easy exercise to help you determine if your prospects -- on a subconscious level -- are tuning out your marketing message.
• A widespread misconception about written words that causes confusion and drives prospects away from your marketing materials.
• The quickest way to cut marketing’s most costly expense, while also attracting more targeted prospects.
• 14 common mistakes that reduce readership and create falling response rates on your marketing materials.
• And much more.
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