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The goal of crafting a sales copy is to persuade the reader to take action - inquire about a specific product/service, buy a product, join your email list, subscribe to your newsletter, follow you on social media, etc. You can use sales copy on website pages, emails, or brochures.
Five key checkboxes must be ticked for a good sales copy. Those are:
- Highly engaging
- Easy to read and understand
- Hype-free and credible
- Brief but to the point
- Persuasive
Before attempting to write sales copy, hone your writing skills. One way to enhance your writing skills is to read interviews with renowned copywriters to gain valuable tips and insights. In addition to this, you can sign up for copywriting courses and learn from the experts.
Here are some tried and tested techniques to help you develop the best copies to generate sales.
Know your audience
The messaging in your sales copy must be targeted. Know who you are trying to reach, why the sales copy may appeal to them, and what benefits they seek.
Creating buyer personas for prospects is one of the best ways to establish a target audience. Buyer persona refers to a semi-fictional representation of the perfect customer according to real data and market research about existing customers.
After creating buyer personas for the product or service you are trying to sell through your sales copy, you need to consider the messaging your readers will gravitate towards.
Identify a pain point and focus on it
Sales copy must not be a blanket statement on all the things the business does. A sales copy is supposed to drive specific action and not garner general interest.
Therefore, you must identify a single pain point and focus on it.
Suppose you are a copywriter for a company that sells office furniture and have been tasked with writing sales copy for their new ergonomic chair collection. The sales copy you write must not focus on all the company's products but address the issues the ergonomic chairs help with.
You must select the service's or product's most marketable and compelling pain point or benefit and lean on that. In the ergonomic chair example, you can discuss how the chairs help prevent musculoskeletal diseases.
The language must be engaging
A sales copy aims to make the reader take action. For example, it might be to purchase a product, join the mailing list, etc. Therefore, you must use engaging language to persuade the reader to take a specific action.
The language of the sales copy must be tailored to the specific buyer persona. In addition, the language must be clear to engage or excite a potential customer.
Your language must motivate the readers and encourage them to be interested in what you say. You can take the storytelling approach to connect with your target audience.
Give more importance to the benefits, not the features
If you are a copywriter for a business that sells all kinds of products and services, you might be tempted to discuss all the amazing features in the sales copy.
You should hold off on that because the sales copy must be short and sweet. It is not meant to be a long copy where you can go on writing about all the features of the products or services you are trying to sell.
Also, the features of the products or services will be readily available on the company website or the sales brochures. Therefore, it would be best to focus on letting your readers know the direct benefits they will get. In addition, you can write about the results of the features so that the readers know what they are purchasing.
Remember that the sales copy is a hook and not a product page. The primary purpose of the sales copy is to excite the readers, garner interest and compel them to take action. Then, they can visit the website or contact the business to learn about the fantastic features of the product.
Compelling CTA
Never end your sales copy without a clear, concise, compelling CTA. With a CTA, the purpose of the sales copy will be met. Also, ensure the CTA is easily identifiable by the readers and provide some perspective as to what will happen when the reader clicks on the CTA.
The bottom line
Keep in mind these techniques to take your sales copy to the next level and appeal to your target audience. A well-crafted sales copy that is mindful of the specific needs and pain points of the target audience is bound to generate leads and drive sales.