Saturday, June 9, 2012

How to Write Persuasive Ad Copy

By Paulette Buchanan


Creating persuasive ad copy is all about infusing your copy with a lot of clear and action oriented content and trying to talk your prospect into buying what you are selling or taking whatever action you want them to take and it involves a lot more than just putting some random text and paragraphs together. You want to really work on the overall structure of your ad copy to make sure that all of the pieces of it are able to fall into place and to help you reach your goal of persuading your prospect to click on that order or buy button. Keep reading to learn some techniques that will help you infuse your ad copy with persuasion.

Talking to your prospects about your prospects is the biggest thing that you need to remember when you write persuasive copy. It's true: if a person is reading your copy they don't want to know how amazing you are, they want to know what you have to offer them. You have to show your prospects the benefits your products have to offer and don't just spend your time talking about yourself, how your product was created or what sort of hurdles you've had to clear. Simply put, persuasive advertising copy uses the prospects own language to convince him of his own wants/needs/desires in such a way that he feels compelled to take action you want him to take.

The words you put in your copy are really important and that's why using spoken word and present tense are so important. It is important that the person reading your copy feels like they are interacting with you directly. Your copy is your way of talking directly to your prospects so make sure you stay in the present. You want the people reading the ad to feel like they've already purchased the products and that the purchases were good. This creates relevancy for your ad copy and makes it easier for your prospect to feel like they are living the experience even without making a purchase or taking the action you want them to take.

In addition to mentioning the important features of your product in your copy you need to follow up those features with copy that tells your prospect exactly how well they can benefit from using each of those features. Don't make the mistake of listing only the features of your product because nobody cares about them; people want to know what they get out of these features. The problems that your product will solve aren't what matters; you need to show your readers what your product or service will do for them as well as mentioning the other things.

The information that we discussed in the above article is only the tip of the ice berg when it comes to writing a persuasive ad. There is a lot more to learn as you keep going and get better at using your words to persuade. Putting persuasion into your ad copy is more complicated than just using the right headline and right words, you need to give your ad a total makeover if you want to truly be able to convince your prospects to take the action they need to take.




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