Copywriting - Points that make you a winner
Copywriting has for ages been defined as an art. While Copywriting is a modern age term mostly being done for ads or marketing collaterals, it is quite a primitive art and was practiced even by our ancestors. Hence, the basics of copywriting were defined in the age of Socrates and Aristotle! The basics have remained the same - the rules and the language have changed.Jan 22, 2008
Using the experience of CM and common sense, below are listed a few points that will ensure that the copy written by you is good and goes well with your customer as well as the end consumer - that will get you brownie points from your customer as well. You know what brownie points mean here - pounds for some, dollars for many and rupees for people like us.
Choose the right words - This is the best way to win your customer. Choose the words that he does not use in his everyday language. For that matter, he does not use those words once in a year. He may have read them here and there, but does not have the ability use them in writing or during verbal conversations. This will also justify his act of outsourcing his copywriting requirements, and you will have more work coming your way.
Hit the target customer - There is one mistake most writers make, and good ones - they write for themselves. A good copywriter writes for the target group. Serve what your guests like, not what you like to gulp down your throat. Give your target customer his piece of cake, even if its smells shit to you.
Do your homework - You need to do this when you are writing about a product/service that you have not much idea about, and this happens very often with copywriters. They have very faint idea about the client product or his service. The best way is to be honest enough to the customer and let him to know that you need to be tutored. If that does not work, do not worry - you have Mr. Google there for you.
Do a spell check - This is unforgivable. Your customer may not be able to figure out grammatical errors, if you make any, but if he sees typos he may get livid and complain of carelessness. You won?t have words to argue then, and will break into sweat of shamelessness. Bill Gates only did one favor to writers by making Spell Check. Use it - you have paid for it.

