35+ Outrageous Tips That’ll Improve Your Copywriting

Notes from an A-List copywriter

Preparing To Write Powerful Sales Copy.

If you want to be an A-list copywriter make sure you do this.

These are tips I use and I practice almost anytime I am writing or preparing to write sales copy. If you do half of them you will be well ahead of most copywriters out there.

Ready? Let’s do this then.

Before you get started make sure you have the following things in place.

  1. Clear mind

  2. Intended outcome

  3. Well researched

  4. Swipes & Mind Foods

  5. Ad Books

  6. Notepad

  7. Cards

  8. Pens

  9. Computer

  10. Coffee

  11. No interruptions

  12. Ability to keep going

  13. Perseverance

  14. Endurance

  15. Ability

  16. Write

  17. Leave

  18. Edit

  19. Leave

  20. Edit

Good copy is about understanding your customer, getting inside their heads, understanding how they feel, how they think, what their habits are, what makes them purchase, why they purchase and listing each word carefully like a careful yet obsessed scientist until you have a list of thoughts, feelings, words and actions that will describe the buyer.

A-list copy is in the edit.

So your sales copy can be

  1. Letters long and short

  2. New customer letters

  3. Thank you letters

  4. Referral letters

  5. Direct mail letters

  6. Web letters

  7. TV ads

  8. Classifieds

  9. Google ads

  10. Space ads for magazines or newspapers

  11. Labelling

  12. Sandwich wrapping

  13. Instagram Ads

  14. Social Ads

  15. VSL copy

  16. Film

  17. ANYTHING with words that have to sell … this is COPY that you write … copywriting.

The above is taken from my Copywriting Mentor program. Click here to find out more.

Your mentor

Alan Forrest Smith

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