Winter 2022 - Spring 2023 Recap (Public)
Winter 2022 - Spring 2023 Recap (Public)
Winter 2022 - Spring 2023 Recap (Public)
A good product is NOT enough for the product to get bought. Copywriting is a good
skill because it can advertise and make people want to buy it.
Section 0: Finding Your Niche
What is a niche?
● Your niche gives you focus, helps you specialize in that field, and helps
you identify your market.
● As you grow as a writer you will earn more from your clients
● Don't get hung up when picking your niche, they don't have to be
permanent
● You write faster because you know more about that field
● As you grow as a copywriter you can demand more from your clients
● Take notes throughout your day, what are things you like/wouldn't
mind learning about?
● If you don't actively learn about your niche you won't get any traction,
and ALWAYS DO WHAT YOU’RE INTERESTED IN
● You can ask 4 questions to figure out what niche you should have
Question 4: What is something you can talk about all day and not get bored
of it?
You have to know people to be able to sell them something. You have to know their
turn on’s and turn off’s.
1. Fear
Fear sells insanely well, it moves people to act and spend money. Fear
creates stress and stress creates desire. It’s better to stretch desire, never
stretch fear or pain. It only works if your product solves their problem.
Step 1: Scare the fuck out of people, it has to scare them enough to act.
Step 3: They believe they can receive and perform that action.
2. Ego Stroking
resent a picture in their head that will make them want to buy it, women
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want to feel sexier and more in control. Men want to feel more powerful and
confident.
If you fit into multiple of these categories you can convince someone to buy
something.
They're more likely to put their faith in the product, the ends justify the
means.
5. Step by Step
Warming up traffic.
Create ads that focus on all 5 of those little steps, create a series of
advertisements for each one.
Each one of the steps references one of the Audience Awareness Levels.
Direct route
logic, and reasoning convinces a lot of men (real estate, investments)
Indirect route
pleasant thoughts, images that are cute to the eye, and buzz words (stuff
that makes you feel/look good)
When someone arrives at the conclusion to buy something they will adopt
this decision as their own thought, it's my job to fucking agree with them, to
reinforce it and defend it, them not knowing they were marketed is
everything.
7. Message Clarity
ake your advertisement readable and understandable, simple, people want
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it to be clear or they won't stick around.
8. Examples vs Stats
Emotion is the key to sales, statistics are recessive and cause the potential
consumers to imagine the results, stats will always win, stats fortify
examples, use stats with examples, examples with stats, etc etc, make them
imagine the results, and then have it actually happen.
9. Repetition
hink about slogans, make something familiar, and break down the wall of
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distrust, but don't become redundant, make it stick properly, and related to a
product/company, be repetitive, not redundant.
Creating a Conversion
● To create a Conversion you need to trigger/appeal to Consumer
Psychology
● You need the consumer's eyes moving down the page at all times.
● You HAVE to keep them interested/entertained because we have shit
attention spans and monkey brains.
● Youtubers
● Brochures
● Landing Pages
● Product Pages
If you are not a proper Copywriter you will lose your clients. You need to know
HOW to write copy before you can learn outreach. If you're saying “Oh yeah I know
how to write copy” and an already existing, successful copywriter (Mr. Blue) HASN’T
said that your copy is good enough
The truth is that they hired another, better copywriter. If you cannot sell well you
are pretty much gone.
8 Primary Needs:
1. Survival and Quality of Life
(We want to survive and thrive)
3. Freedom
(We want to be free from fear, pain, and danger. You don’t want to be afraid
or scared, some examples include Financial freedom, physical and mental
freedom, GUNS, and INSURANCE)
4. Sex
(People are horny as FUCK, they want sex and to be wanted/sexy, to feel
wanted sexually. Sex sells because it is the pinnacle of humanity)
5. Comfortability
(People want soft beds and a well-insulated house. They want to feel as if
their environment is perfect)
6. Superiority
(People want to feel better than others. To keep up with trends. Cigar
Lounges run off the idea of superiority by being exquisite and nicotine
making you feel good, selling dopamine)
8. Social Approval
(Everyone wants some form of social approval, so pretty much high school.
Jocks, prep kids, weirdos, emos, they all have social approval need in
common. ACCEPTANCE, brands will get your money because you will be
looked at highly
9 Secondary Wants:
1. To be Informed
(WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT SHIT!!)
2. Curiosity
(In essence, it's like being informed. To be informed is to know about issues
and how they are broken down. Curiosity makes you want to be involved. Eg:
if you pass by a car wreck, to be informed is knowing that it happened,
curiosity makes you want to look and see an arm hanging out of the window.
It's fucked up but we do. You want to feel like you were directly involved. You
use curiosity to make the reader more interested)
4. Efficiency
(We want things to be done quickly and with as little work as possible)
5. Convenience
(People are lazy as fuck because of instant gratification and sloth. Sloth is a
commodity that can be sold. Why make food and take time putting effort
when I can just UberEats, or get an Uber instead of buying a car)
9. Bargains
(People want fucking DEALS, not only to be cheaper but to feel like they are
getting more for their dollar. BANG FOR THE BUCK. It's FREE, feels like
getting something without payment, pretty much buy two get one free)
Establishing Rapport
You may ask, “What is rapport and why do I need to establish it?”
Some good examples are with your doctor, banker, or even here.
Our Customer is the Brand, and the Brand is who we write for.
Even if you have no experience, you have to look like an expert in your field.
Looking like an expert in your field means you will look like a professional to them
and their/your audience.
Don’t use terminal words, words only known by experts. Speak in normal words.
Terminal words only work for hot traffic, not for cold ones.
(Warm Traffic - knows who you are, knows your industry, your brand)
You want to reach out and explain the terms better to people who don’t understand
them.
Conclusion: Find a way to explain the Jargon or use terms that they understand.
As long as they get what you’re saying, they’ll feel not only interested but more
attached to you
Always feel free to open up options, never tell them that you have no option
3. Formal vs Casual
Formal is more how older people spoke, people in the ‘90s, but nowadays it's not as
good
People now see formal attitude as someone trying to sell us something (You don’t
want them feeling that they are being sold to, never oversell)
Casual is better nowadays, people don’t like the super formal sounding ads, treat it
like a conversation, and do NOT cut out the technicality when you write, keep the
technicality but don’t keep the tone. Be simple and specific.
You get those few questions at the beginning, but It seems way too fucking
scripted...
Instead of scripting it out, write down the question, and find a better way to form it
Take those questions, write them down and how you want to form them,
Ask a question and then answer it yourself ( not in your head only but in copy as
well)
If you’re reading a sales letter, odds are you read it because you have that problem
Break the questions apart, give a bit of space, and add something
That builds walls around them that tell them What their problem is and what they
need.
Features vs Benefits
Features: The definition of a feature is a component of the product. It’s a part or
ingredient that makes the product work or produces results.
Features tell the prospect/customer about the product/service and establish
familiarity, like how we know who Mr. Blue is, he is a business owner and
copywriter.
Features are the “how”
Features raise a big question, “what does this do for me?” That's why people pick
your product. They want to know what’s in it for them
They show what this part does and they are the results the products make.
For instance, skin care, shea butter, and aloe vera, what you’ll see next to them is
what it does to them. You need it to have healthy skin.
Benefits are why a customer picks up a product, it does what they need it to do.
Benefits create great funnels, and list the product's benefits in a creative fashion
that will make the prospect want to click the link. They have these enticing benefits
and they want to know how it works, which will lead them to the website.
People buy through emotions and justify them with logic, that's why you should talk
to them about the benefits of making a purchase while also showing them the
features.
To sell to your customer, you have to understand how aware they are of the
problem, the need, the want, and how the product solves that issue
How much does he already know? Does he know about the other solutions and
competitors?
It is essential to be able to tell what kind of info your prospect needs and what kind
of offer creates the most conversion
Level 1: Unaware (BE THE DOCTOR)
These are the prospects who do not understand that they have a problem or have a
need that has to be met. They have no idea, they simply don’t know it exists or
about another solution. If you have a very new product, many people will be at this
level. They are BLIND
With unaware prospects, think of it as cold traffic. They are ice cold, it’s fucking
Antarctica. You have to pitch both features and benefits and have to be on point.
You need a longer form copy to address everything from start to finish for cold
traffic.
These prospects understand they have a problem, they have just never dealt with
the problem. They are completely unfamiliar with any solution to their ailment.
They have an idea of what they want but they don’t know about any solution that
exists.
“I want a strawberry-colored leather jacket with studs all the way to the belt” I’ve
never seen that shit, I just know that I want it. I don’t know where to look for it, I
just know it’s what I need
These are prospects that are aware of the problem. They are aware that solutions
exist, they just don’t know your specific brand. Most Business owners know they
need someone to advertise, they don’t know about YOU to help their conversion
rate.
You offer a new solution. This is Lukewarm traffic. They’ve seen everyone but just
not you yet.
“We take all these shits and make them look like a bitch.” - Touch from Blue
“This is what makes us outdo our competitor” Say the same shit for your
competitor.
You just have to list why you’re better. This wi-fi router checklist and yours tick all
the boxes.
They are customers, they are brand loyalists. They are easy.
They already buy. They are not only aware of their problem. They already buy your
shit and like it. You’re preaching to a choir because they will buy what you’re selling
since they are repeat customers. They are a business owner’s wet dream.
Nike preaches to their choir, everybody knows who they are and doesn't need to go
hard on the advertising because they are already aware. Their target audience
wasn’t cold, they were reaching for their choir.
Your goal as a copywriter is to take your prospects from level 1 to level 5, so that
customers will prefer you for life, and the same with your client because at Level 5
all you need is something creative to create the conversion.
● Put your core benefit in your headline, cut through the bullshit
● The biggest mistake you can do in your headline is to make your sale
in the headline
● If you can write 2 equally effective headlines, choose the shorter one
● Crank up scarcity, get your prospect to convert RIGHT when the offer
is presented, get a good offer, and set a hard ass deadline.
● Print Your Token, what makes me, me, Example. Mr. Blue's token is the
color blue. A token is what you think of them or what they do, make
yourself iconic
● Survey, ask the brand you writing for if you can send out a survey of
about 3-6 questions in your newsletter or anything, it gives you insight
into the customer's thought process, and after giving them a token of
appreciation, offer them something you would have offered anything,
and your rewards are information on the market
Prestige Pricing
● Solid prices suggest that its higher quality, like when something is
$5000.00 vs $4,999.99
● When making our headlines we need to use the 4 U's, Unique, Urgent,
Useful, Ultra-Specific, Put the biggest benefit in your headline, ALWAYS
2. Intrigue Them:
- Don’t be vague.
- Use specific language & imagery.
- Don’t fully reveal details of your sale.
- Don’t over-explain things.
3. Clear Guidance
- Don't assume that the reader knows how to click.
- Give the incentive for the reader to click.
- For Engage, all you need is a really clear and good Call to Action (CTA), and
make them want it
I hate carrying around those bulky ass chargers that have to have ports to charge
my phone in a couple of boring hours, the iWatch is so small that it fits in my
pocket while charging my phone and charges from 0% to full in 30 minutes”
This tool is useful, it's good for small banner ads ( Facebook, Instagram, Sides)
And they’re good for Amazon sales pages, something like that, but you can see very
clearly how it still somehow replicates the DIE method.
When you tell a story it’s mostly you, but later on when we do description
copywriting then it's gonna be concentrated on the customers.
What you want to say is, "We know you have a problem, and it's fine, we want to
help"
Look into your product and see what issue it solves, then talk about the problem
but reassure them that it’s okay to have the problem, "I’m here to help you"
Make them scared they don’t have the product, not be hurt because they don’t
have it
1. Attention
This is old school but It produces a lot of results. Mark the things that spark
attention in the brand. This usually comes with the headline.
It’s CRUCIAL to GRAB THEIR ATTENTION BY THE BALLS AND MAKE THEM LISTEN.
This is where most people lose them, they don’t know how to grab their attention,
or stimulate their curiosity and attention then engage them
Be it money, health, or anything else, your audience should be able to see in their
mind how it improves their life
2. Interest
Put the prospect in the dream state you mentioned with the headline. You need to
press the issue and then stretch the desire. It will lead them to the solution that
you give them.
You need to put the prospect in their dream state that you put in the headline
It will lead them to the solution that you will give them
You want to make them curious about what the fuck it is.
3. Desire
You build desire with the visuals, testimony and reviews.
Ex: A pizza face to a greek god, this way you can make the audience easily
visualize what their life could be like.
They’d show a dude being a pizza face to looking like Apollo, you need to persuade
the audience to see visually in their mind how the offer can improve their lives.
Your prospect can create the conversion at the desire step if they are led into a
good action.
You trigger a desire in them by putting your prospect into a dream state of the best
version of themselves after using your product.
Before finishing a sentence “buy” their attention for the next one -Strike.
4. Action
Persuade the prospect that they should act immediately, in person, you would ask
for the sale or create a sense of urgency and/or give a bonus for those who act
quickly
Hustlers University (The Real World now) did this by calling people brokies if they
don’t join because it will be more expensive in the future and be much harder to
become rich in a few years than it will be to become rich now
“Checkout, Confirm” The word “buy" doesn't come up that much, make it easy for
them to take action, hand them the red button
Reach Out to your potential clients if they did buy, and ask them for feedback. This
will help you produce more content and create retainer clients.
Give them your contact number and email address so they can reach out to you.
Stay away from “purchase” or “buy”. Telling them about financial details might turn
their defenses up and make you lose a sale.
Soft-Launch
A soft-launch is where you make a piece of copy very general and not specialized so
you can get info on your market, such as feedback, who is looking for X thing, the
ideal avatar, etc.
You want to make a short piece of copy first, then a long one based on the short
one.
Prime Example:
When we did the meta ad for Behrns pepper salts, I made it very general, because I
wanted to see who was looking for it, who was buying, who was going to the
website, etc.
With 10$ a day on their page, people between 35 - 60, mostly women. Now I was
able to filter down, to the actual people who wanted to buy it.
Search Engine Optimization
SEO is the process of heightening website or blog traffic by appearing in a higher
rank on search engines, good for blogs or sales pages.
This is where you use the right words to drive prospects with a good placement in a
Google search (Search Engine Optimization).
● There are 2 types of keywords, Short Tail Keywords, and Long Tail
Keywords, aka a Key Phrase
1. Short Tail Keyword would be, Keto Diet
2. Long Tail Keyword would be, Keto Diet Dinner Recipes
● There is another way to find them, by just using the search engine
1. Search your subject in the search engine
2. Go to the very bottom, there will be a list of words that pertain to your topic
3. Write down the top 3-5 phrases that pertain to what you're talking about
4. Repeat steps 1-3 for the 3-5 phrases you found, and write down the few that
pertain to what you're talking about the most
For convenience we will make a recap going over all of Chapter 1, but still make
sure to read over all of chapter 1 before actually going through, but before that lets
address the common question, Long or Short form copy?
Long vs Short Form Copy
People always ask, “What’s better, a long or short form copy?” Well the answer is,
the best form of copy to use is the one that works, but to make things more simple
for you we will go over each one.
● The longer you justify the purchase the more likely the prospect is to
purchase
You don’t need a ton to convince people to buy a cheep item, but for expensive
things you need to spend more time convincing them.
● Hold their hand and let them interpret the price so it seems like their own
idea
This is part of consumer psychology, you want buying to be THEIR idea, they should
never know they are being marketed towards.
The point of Long Copy is to be emotionally charged to spike the desire for the
product as the customer continues reading down the pages
The negative of Long Form Copy is we don’t know how the fuck to pay attention
anymore, but if you’re good at it you can build a good amount of intrigue that can
sell really well.
2. Make it interesting
Break the copy up, make it look pleasing to the eye, and do things differently.
You can sometimes just achieve your goals with fewer words.
2. Short Copy grabs more people’s attention for a shorter amount of time
With everyone’s shit attention span using short copy can grab more people's
attention.
3. Short Copy works best when they can join your Sales Funnel at any
point
You will add layers to your funnel but you want them to be a shit ton of short-form
copy, they can read and take away what they need from it before continuing with
the purchase.
Picking One
When it comes to where you should use Long Form or Short Form, use your
judgment.
Would you use a lot of intrigue for a small Facebook ad?
Are you gonna limit yourself to 180 words for a landing page?
That is how you figure out whether or not you use Long or Short form copy.
There is something Mr. Blue talked about with a private client that he wanted to talk
about.
I will call it
Headline
Opening Paragraph
Chemical Index
● Adrenaline
Adrenaline is a chemical released by your body in fight, flight, or freeze responses
that makes your heart work faster, lungs work better, pupils dilate, and brain work
faster, as a survival mechanic.
● Dopamine
Dopamine is a chemical in the brain that makes you feel good.
● Cortisol
Cortisol is a chemical that can make people feel stressed and irritated.
Cortisol also regulates various bodily functions.
● Oxytocin
Sometimes referred to as the “love hormone” or “cuddle chemical,” Oxytocin is a
chemical that is associated with trust, sexual arousal, and relationship-building.
● Serotonin
Serotonin is a chemical that carries messages between nerve cells in the brain and
throughout your body.
The more serotonin that is available, the better your body can make you feel.
For example, people with depression have low serotonin levels, and most
anti-depression drugs work by boosting the serotonin levels in their body.
Those are all the ones we will be using, but more on The Chemical Factor.
When someone reads your headline, one or both chemicals will/should be released.
Those are Adrenaline and Dopamine.
When you introduce the problem, the “why factor”, you are going to release
Cortisol.
When you move past your problem, that’s when you move into The Segue.
When you announce your product, the same reaction should happen as when
someone reads your headline, Adrenaline or Dopamine.
When you move past the introduction, when you talk about features and benefits,
the solution to their illness, two chemicals will overrun, those being Oxytocin and
Serotonin.
Risk Reversal
There will be reservations and objections that anybody will have. It is not in your
favor to run from those, feel free to address them.
While prospecting buyers they’ll have doubts, concerns, and questions. They’ll be
skeptical (especially if they have negative past experiences)
“If we were sitting here and having coffee, I would answer your questions but I’ll
tell you the most FAQ.”
Give a Guarantee
When you’re buying things online, especially if it's from a stranger, you’re scared
of being taken advantage of, being scammed, etc.
You can set their minds at ease and provide some peace of mind with a
guarantee that reduces/removes a risk.
If you can’t offer a money-back guarantee, you can put limits on it.
30-day money-back guarantee, but only if you show me that you have done the
work.
Share the perfect person who it is for and share people who would be bad for this.’
Doing that can eliminate the buyers who are “bad” and will eliminate possible
refunds.
1. Subheadlines and Lists: If you break up each block like it's a block, numbers
list, bullets list, or paragraph list.
2. Honest Testimonials.
3. Best ways to get someone off the fence.
Share honest and objective recommendations, testimonials, success stories, and
bought and found success. (Better yet, a picture)
5. If someone signs up for your email, you can email them and say we’ll give a
bonus to you if you take this survey, this is for collecting information about
your audience.
The Hook
Also called the Headline or the Subject Line. It is the most important part of your
copy. You can write the best copy of all time but without a good hook, it’s pointless.
● The Paradox:
Like a (blank) unlike any (blank)
The paradox pushes the uniqueness factor
Calendly used this = Like a Calendar, unlike any Calendar
Like a calendar, unlike any calendar you’ve ever seen.
Opening Paragraph:
There is no plug-and-play method for them, openers are purely based on the
parameters of your copy.
You are going to talk about the sub-titles in your blog and list them out.
When someone reads a blog, sometimes they only want that one tip, this way you
provide them a guide that you have the tip and show them where it is.
(Just like how you can find chapters in a book by looking at the first page)
If one tip was “visit Times Square” for a New York blog, you’d want to go down to
that specific part because maybe it’s the only one you’re interested in.
Feel free to gloss over what you are going to talk about. “All you need to know
about visiting New York”, you’re looking to inform.
What primary 8:
What secondary 9:
You can find what desire sparks the person to read your blog.
● For Audience Awareness Levels (AAL) 1 and 2, you want to talk about
5 things:
The Symptoms
The Issue
The Causes
● For AAL 5
Talk about old products, and introduce new products
If you need to use an overused term like the word “expensive”, go to your search
engine and just type creative ways to say “expensive”, such as “wallet-burning”
The Body
Example:
BULLET POINT LIST
● Feature - Benefit
● Feature - Benefit
● Feature - Benefit
Paragraph Format
Insanely good for email copy, and Instagram Caption/Facebook Caption
It's good because when you have eyes moving you don't want to direct it into a list,
the flow might be disrupted.
Example:
OLLY Sleep Gummies consist of Melatonin (a naturally occurring hormone that
works with your body to help you fall asleep), L-Theanine (an amino acid that
encourages calmness…
It makes it look seamless, while they’re reading, we have the solution for you, etc
And then you straight in go to features and benefits by not even creating a bullet
list, without interrupting the flow.
Blog Format
This format is good for landing pages, item descriptions, ingredient lists, and blog
posts.
Examples:
Melatonin
This sidekick is a naturally occurring hormone that works with your body's
chemistry to help you fall asleep and stay asleep
L-Theanine
An amino acid that encourages calmness so you can hush those voices in your head
and drift off
Botanicals
Flower Power! Chamomile, Passion Flower & Lemon Balm have been used for
centuries to help soothe & relax
Food
- Good for you
- Tastes good
- You need it to live
- Fun to eat
- Smells good
- Looks good
The Closer
Segues
The thing is, there’s no right or wrong way to do it.
So if you want to have a healthy sleep rhythm, that is how I would do it.
You want to talk about the biggest benefit but talk to the customer.
Call To Action
There are 2 commandments when it comes to your CTA.
“Click HERE to get off 35% for the most immaculate sleep of your life.”
Also, it’s better to use 25% off rather than 10$ off, 25% seems like it’s bigger, and
you don’t want to remind them of spending money.
The “Flesh of Copy” is the various different forms of copy you will be writing, keep
in mind there are more than just these, but these are the main ones we will be
covering.
There are 8 forms of copy that will be used and built upon all the previous things
taught.
The 8 forms of copy we have learned so far will be split into 3 different sections,
email, website, and social media copy.
But before we go over any of those, we will recap everything previously learned.
While trying to write email copy a lot of people come across the question, “Should I
write long or short email copy,” well this
Generally, email copy should be shorter for younger audiences as they don't check
their emails as often and have fried attention spans.
If all copy is working towards a specific goal, then you know you are doing
something right, and if you focus on that goal then eventually you will achieve it.
2. Stay on Brand
You want to keep their brand voice in mind.
The person on the other side will not be interacting with you but with the brand.
For instance: If your brand voice is firm, your writing should be authoritative
You need to be able to stay in the brand voice
The most fun email campaign for Mr. Blue was for a brand that sold Sex products
since he was allowed to write puns as it was not a firm brand voice.
“If you add those little jokes, you realize everybody be fuckin’” -Blue
When you see an email you see a subject line, but you don’t want it to be absurdly
long, and then the email is actually gonna start.
Its purpose is to take control of the tiny bits of space and treat it as an extension of
your subject line
When you are outreaching you can write a misleading headline to grab their
attention
“Back with ye lackluster conversion rates… back I say! 🤺🤺🤺”
4. Get your Call to Action Right
“Click here to find out more”
Your CTA should be the final push, it’s your finish line where you cut the ribbon.
You should be using active words to keep him engaged enough to click and to
commit
Be specific, you have to skip the overused vague descriptions such as “see now”
Go ahead and be compelling, AirBNB CTA is “explore more” which is good for
targeting people who like to travel.
The goal of the Sales Letter is to get them to want it right then and there, and the
CTA is a link to the Sales Page where they are able to buy the product/service.
A Sales Letter and a Sales Page are built relatively the same way and remember,
this is the basics, so don’t expect the 2 sections to be vastly different for now.
Subject Line
The subject line is the title of the email, not part of the email itself.
The subject line is essentially just the same exact thing as a headline.
All of the basic stuff to write a subject line should be in The Hook, and Consumer
Psychology Rules (The Crucial Center).
Dropdown
The Dropdown could also be called the Opening Paragraph.
The first line of the dropdown is a Hook Line to grab the reader's attention again as
they open the email.
● For AAL 5
If you just straight up stop the dropdown and start the product intro, it can break
their interest due to people's shitty attention span nowadays.
Some helpful parts might be, Segues, but due to having not yet mentioned your
biggest/main benefit, it may not work.
Product Intro
For AAL levels 1-2, you announce that you have a solution to whatever the ailment
is.
For AAL levels 3-4, you reinforce the shit you talked about in the dropdown.
Features/Benefits
Features and Benefits are talked about primarily in this area, but I will help explain
it here.
Features are the “how,” they raise the big question. “What does this do for me?”
That’s why people pick your product. They want to know what's in it for them.
Benefits are the act that features perform. They are the “why.”
They show what this part does and they are the results the products make.
To do this, you will talk about the different features of the product/service and the
benefits the features have.
Some of the different areas you can apply when you are making this section are
Bullet Point List,
Segue to CTA
Also known as a Closer, this small part is simply just moving from the
Features/Benefits into the CTA without breaking their interest.
If you just straight up stop Features/Benefits and start the CTA, it can break their
interest due to people's shitty attention span nowadays.
Some helpful parts might be, Segue, but now since you have mentioned your
biggest/main benefit it works.
CTA
Your Call to Action is one of the most important parts of your copy. The CTA section
will be of help in making this.
A link to your Sales Page should be where your CTA sends you.
Form 2: Newsletter
Newsletter copywriting is the process of writing newsletters for existing customers
or new leads. It’s like the second part of the sales copy without the first, the offer
without the intro.
New leads don’t mean cold traffic, it’s customers who are familiar with your product
and are signed up to your newsletter. They are familiar with you.
Writing a Newsletter is usually pretty easy to do right since you’re selling to buyers.
The AAL is always 4-5 for newsletters.
The goal of an email newsletter is to get people to buy and to familiarize yourself
with them.
- You can announce new offers that your customers can benefit from.
The anatomy of a newsletter is just like any piece of copy, you’re gonna have a
subject line, an engaging body, and a straightforward CTA.
Actionable Tips
- Establish trust
You can do this by talking about the impact of your product.
- Use visuals
Use them because copy without visuals aint shit.
A newsletter with just text is monotonous, so give them eye candy.
An attractive newsletter showcases your brand.
- Creating an email newsletter for every new campaign can have a similar
template/skeleton between them while still personalizing them for a new
audience, it has to follow a style that compliments your content so save
emails with great visuals and concise text.
- When prospects sign up for your newsletter, add them to a list and remind
them that you exist with new products or offers
The subject line is written pretty much the exact same as a headline but you need
to be careful of how long it is, you have less room to write than with a
headline.
All of the basic stuff to write a subject line should be in The Hook, and Consumer
Psychology Rules (The Crucial Center).
Body
The body is generally extremely short because the AAL is always 4-5, not usually
over 2 paragraphs, like 2-3 paragraphs tops.
The body of your copy needs to be enticing but only with the necessary details
Your email body copy tone should encase your brand’s personality.
Here You talk to people about things like, a new product, a new session, an update,
etc etc.
In or after the body (inbetween the body and cta) you should have some visuals.
Call To Action
You also need a straightforward CTA, you need to tell them what to do, and have a
clear but fun CTA.
You are persuading them to hit the buy button with a discount through a newsletter
usually.
You can also offer new promos that your customers can benefit from.
What primary 8
What secondary 9
What Audience Awareness Level
Headline
The headline is the first line of the copy and it builds intrigue and interest, it has to
make them click as soon as they see it.
All of the basic stuff to write a subject line should be in The Hook, and Consumer
Psychology Rules (The Crucial Center).
Table of Contents
Pretty self-explanatory.
Example:
● How I made 7 figures
● How I'd fuck yo mama
● How I'd became bald
Reader: He wants to find out about the interesting information you write.
Skimmer: A mofo who just wants a portion of the info.
It's almost like writing an essay just that you're talking about a business.
Content
This is the section you will have all the juice of your Blog Post.
Subheading
Content content content…
It’s kinda for your longer format of copy, like a landing page, ingredient list, or blog.
When you have a landing page, item description, or ingredients list, this is where it
comes into play.
Melatonin
This sidekick is a naturally occurring hormone that works with your body’s
chemistry to help you fall asleep and stay asleep.
L-Theanine
An amino acid that encourages calmness so you can hush those voices in your head
and drift off
Botanicals
Flower Power! Chamomile, Passionflower & Lemon Balm have been used for
centuries to help soothe & relax!
You say what it is, and then you talk about it under the “caption”.
Segue to Closer
Segues all use kind of the same thing, Segue will help, make it smooth, and don’t
lose any interest.
Closer
The closer of a blog post would be either
If you're selling something, this is where you introduce it and how its relevant to
the blog.
When you are gonna be making a CTA, its pretty standard, you’d use the CTA section.
Form 4: Bio
Also known as the Bio, this is the part you will talk about the business.
We will go over Short and Long Form Bio.
You should have around three words to describe what you or the business do in a
nutshell.
Using related emojis helps improve readability.
In the middle, you would use a sentence that is a major achievement of what you
did.
At the end, you want to include a Call to Action and give them instructions.
“Dm me -word–”, “Click Here”, etc.
Talk about things that went wrong, things that went right, and everything in
between.
Talk about getting over that struggle to where the business is NOW.
At the bottom of the About Page, you put what is called a Mission Statement
The Difference between the Pages is just cosmetic, there’s a reason for that.
Some offer more reassurance about data privacy and stuff like that, some of them
just want to give you a promo if you join the newsletter.
It all depends on the brand's voice and what they want to do.
Sign up to our Email Promo to get the info/updates on that, blah blah,
Your Data is important to us and we’ll not flood your email nor will we sell or share
your data.
Give them what they want while making them feel safe.
The Landing page is to insist that people stick through to the end to buy whatever
you’re selling.
The main objective of a Landing Page is not to sell, it is to actually collect user's
information (emails, phone numbers, etc.) to put your products in front of them.
Landing pages deal with everything from headlines, words to landing and tonality.
The Landing Page fills the gap between prospect and customer.
Everyone lands on a landing page every day, with that, the question that you ask is
“why should I believe in you?”
Your goal as a copywriter is to answer this as perfectly as you possibly can to gain
their trust.
Skin care pages for example use it to determine what type of acne you have in
order to give you the best possible product they have to fix your issue.
It’s a crucial factor in a landing page, if it doesn’t convey it well, it’s gonna be hard
to convert prospects into a clientele.
People buy products if they think that it can solve their problems.
Ex: Men’s care products, Dove for example used paraben-free stuff in order to avoid
estrogenic properties in their products, it’s their USP (unique selling point) since it
is actually valuable for men.
They may also use scents in order to appeal to their target market more.
Your target audience doesn’t want to do that shit either, in short, we replace a
salesperson with a landing page.
It should be what a salesperson does and build a good relationship with a visitor,
write in short sentences, and make your Landing Page easy to understand.
It implies that the audience is getting something valuable. Exclusive creates a sense
of scarcity, people are gonna look after it as it may not always be there.
Using powerful words in your copy can also create a sense of urgency “Don’t miss
out!”
When people are reading your copy, there should be a lot of brain action going on.
7. Benefits.
Nobody in the world will buy your product if they don’t know the benefits, it attracts
the user and shows them that it’s the right product for their needs.
Mention the positive impact the product can make on a buyer's life
9. Create Urgency
It can be the difference between making a sale and losing a customer, they need to
act sooner rather than later, and best of all right now. They need to see it as an
opportunity.
They must stand out from the rest of the copy and be as clear as possible
“Subscribe for exclusive access”
- Provide Value for the Exchange of that Information (discount gift, etc.)
The Landing page length is on the shorter side - the funnel is at the
top.
(The Sign-up)
Entirely different from other pages - visitors don’t know why they’re here or what
they’ll be getting.
Landing Pages typically have different AAL’s - on Splash Page you have to tell them
why they’re here and what they’re gonna get here. (They don’t know what
they’re getting yet, tell them what you do, product, service)
The focus of this page should solely be to promote your special offers, freebies
only.
At the same time, reassure them that their data is in the right hands.
Words like: We respect your data, 0 spam, fill out to claim your free ebook/trial
now.
A lot of landing pages will be of free value - E Book/Case Study hence the name.
Most Marketers face a lot of difficulties when they capture lead from this page
because users aren’t ready to compromise their privacy for the value.
The Focus of the Page is to assure them that, big brands use the data to make
decisions/upgrades (offer reassurance)
It would be used when selling anything online, such as courses, memberships, web
design, and so on.
A Sales Page and a Sales Letter are built relatively the same way and remember,
this is the basics, so don’t expect the 2 sections to be vastly different for now.
Rules to Go By:
1. Typically, the more expensive, obscure (unique, rare) the offer is, the longer
the sales page should be.
2. Cut is, a ton fuck of people talk about how important a sales page is for
digital entrepreneurs, but very few actually tell you what to include in the
sales page copy.
There are 2 different formats for sales page that Mr. Blue has given us, there is the
normal format shown in the headers below, and another one that I will show in a
sec.
Highlight what is possible, it's the introduction, it shows that you understand what
they want to achieve, their desires, it shows the benefit of what it will be like when
they are there; and by telling them you have the solution, teasing the solution, you
say you can help them get there. It sets the stage for the obstacle in the way. →
Highlight the problem Your potential customers always have a problem, which is
why they’re looking for a potential product.
The problem should align with how your product came to be.
Present the problem and tell them why it should be taken seriously, with all the
negative hurdles it has (Failure, side effects, etc)
You shine a light on what's possible, show the dream, and show that it's possible
with the solution. ( You want all but success to them)
Keep talking about yourself and your pain to a minimum, remember to focus on you
part.
Communicate value, benefits, the brass, the juice, and the emotional impact of the
solution, and tell them why it's better than ANY other thing on the market for this.
● Introduce Yourself
People will want to know who you are if they’re gonna buy from you.
You want to tell them how you came to be here, how you got to be an expert
(came from A to B), and make it clear why it's so important for you to solve their
problem.
Potential buyers have four questions: Why should I give a fuck?, WIIFM, how will
this help, and how will I benefit?
You add bonuses, therefore, a limited time bonus is the perfect way to move
hesitant buyer off the fence. ( Make them buy)
Visitors need crystal clear instructions on how to take action and what to do next.
● Handle Objections
There will be reservations and objections that anybody will have, it is not in your
favor to run from those, feel free to address them.
“If we were sitting here and having coffee, I would answer your questions but I’ll
tell you the most FAQ”
It’s a good way to reinforce the copy and make it better.
● Give a Guarantee
When you’re buying things online, especially when you’re buying something from a
stranger, you’re scared of being taken advantage of, scammed, etc.
You can set their minds at ease and provide some peace of mind with a guarantee
that reduces/removes a risk.
30 day money back guarantee, but only if you show me that you have done the
work.
Share the perfect person who it is for and share people who would be bad for this.’
Doing that can eliminate the buyers who are “bad” and will eliminate possible
refunds.
If someone signs up for your email, you can email them and say we’ll give a bonus
to you if you take this survey .
Headline
The headline is the first line of the copy and it builds intrigue and interest, it has to
make them click as soon as they see it.
All of the basic stuff to write a subject line should be in The Hook, and Consumer
Psychology Rules (The Crucial Center).
Opening Paragraph
There is no plug-and-play method for an Opening Paragraph.
The Symptoms
The Issues
The Pain Points
The Causes
The Segway to the solution
● For AAL 5
If you just straight up stop the dropdown and start the product intro, it can break
their interest due to people's shitty attention span nowadays.
Some helpful parts might be, Segues, but due to having not yet mentioned your
biggest/main benefit, it may not work.
Product Intro
For AAL levels 1-2, you announce that you have a solution to whatever the ailment
is.
For AAL levels 3-4, you reinforce the shit you talked about in the dropdown.
Features/Benefits
Features and Benefits are talked about primarily in this area, but I will help explain
it here.
Features are the “how,” they raise the big question. “What does this do for me?”
That’s why people pick your product. They want to know what's in it for them.
Benefits are the act that features perform. They are the “why.”
They show what this part does and they are the results the products make.
To do this, you will talk about the different features of the product/service and the
benefits the features have.
Segue to CTA
Also known as a Closer, this small part is simply just moving from the
Features/Benefits into the CTA without breaking their interest.
If you just straight up stop Features/Benefits and start the CTA, it can break their
interest due to people's shitty attention span nowadays.
Some helpful parts might be, Segue, but now since you have mentioned your
biggest/main benefit it works.
CTA
Everything needs a powerful CTA, it compels them to take the next step (buy).
Why should they take action?
A link to your Sales Page should be where your CTA sends you.
Primary Text
You can write as much as you want here, but only the first 150 characters will show
unless they click to show more.
Adjust to AAL as you see fit.
Write your headline/attention grabber within 125 characters here.
Creative Text
A Carousel is multiple images Facebook cycles through.
The Creative is the star of the whole thing, write a small linebreak/paragraph
(no more than 4 sentences) under the primary about what the fuck it is you’re
selling with a picture, and next to the picture explain the features and benefits.
CTA
The problem is your CTA typically comes in a dropdown, so we can’t use all of our
creative language like we usually do.
With the way Meta does things when you make ads for Facebook, It will most likely
be shown on both Instagram and Facebook.
Writing on Instagram
People are more likely to read when they see the picture
Studies tell that images with text embedded in them sell 40-50% more than those
that don't
There's a correlation between the number of characters and the conversion rate
IG only shows the first three lines of text and then It hides the rest with the "Read
more" button. (Here you write the headline and the Attention catching shit)
What you put in the primary text goes to the right place in IG due to Meta Ads
Other Tips
● Use Emojis in Facebook/Instagram copy
If you use emojis it adds a LOT to your copy if it’s done correctly.
Like emojis being used as bullet points are good.
● Hashtags
The ideal quantity of hashtags is a lot bigger than you think
You should use between 4-25 hashtags. Use hashtags when they pertain to your
business and be careful when you use them
If you want to hide hashtags from your viewers, post and put the hashtags in the
top comment and pin it, but that's more for professional businesses
● Five Steps
1. Choose a goal for what you want.
2. Ideas for content (be cohesive, get inspiration).
3. Analyze the audience, check target markets, and then choose the style of
writing.
4. Analyze your competitors.
5. Use your CTA in your captions.
Talk with your clients to create a routine run with social media ads
Plan out your post.
Seminar Notes
Also keep in mind, I did not list all the info from the seminars in order, so the
information will be moved around a bit.
Seminar 2
Seminar 3
Seminar 4
Seminar 5
Seminar 7
Seminar 8
Seminar 10
Seminar 11
Seminar 12
Seminar 13
Seminar 14
Seminar 15
Seminar 16
Seminar 17
Seminar 18
Seminar 19
Seminar 20
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