Know your audience. That phrase is drilled into every marketer and business owner. You’re probably tired of hearing it by now. Yet it is true. You cannot sell something to someone if you don’t know who they are, or what they want. If you can answer these six questions, then you’ve done your homework. Who is your audience, anyway? Sounds a bit redundant, doesn’t it? But who exactly are your audience? If you’ve been in business for a while, you’ve no doubt heard of demographics and psychographics. Demographics are your …
Business Lessons Learned From Searching For My Cat
On August 9th, my contractor left a door open. My first foster failure (and cat #5) Jack decided that he wanted to check out what was on the other side of that door. Cue 43 days of frantic searching for an indoor cat whose closest interaction with the outside was meowing at the birds out the window. Eventually, on the night of day 42, my neighbor called and said she saw what she thought was Jack in her backyard. On day 43 we set a trap and had him 2 …
11 Ways to Completely Revamp Your Copywriting
If you’re reading this article, I’m betting that you fall into one of two camps. You’ve either been writing copy for your business for a lotta years… or you’re brand new, trying to create winning copy on the fly. Either way, there are some bad habits that you can easily and quickly pick up along the way. Inundating your copy with exclamation points, perhaps! (Even though a carefully placed exclamation point can be a real benefit to your writing)… A minimum of 14 different colors and 7 different fonts… The …
7 Quick Tips to Rocking Your Sales Copy
I’ll be the first to tell you that writing great copy is both one of the most difficult jobs in marketing and one of the simplest. The rules to good copy are fairly straight-forward; the mediums defined. When you’re writing your own copy, you’ll work with or at least collaborate with designers and subject matter experts, and have resources to find out exactly what you need to know to write a decent sales page or email campaign that engages and converts. In order to cut through all the noise that’s …
How To: Write An Amazing “About” Page
The About page is often the most difficult page to write. It’s easy to talk about our products all day long; after all, they’re amazing! And writing about our passions is also pretty easy – because we’re so passionate about it. But writing about ourselves? That gets tricky. In fact, many experts that I’ve talked to recently have said that they DON’T encourage their clients to write an about page simply because it’s not a conversion-oriented page on the website. HOLY TOLEDO is that wrong?! Your about page is PRIME …