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Quality content is what attracts people to visit your site. Having fresh content and promoting it via all cost effective means, both online and offline is the lifeblood of your online presence.

If Content is King, then the way it is communicated is Queen and this queen is Copywriting which encourages visitors to stay on your website or blog long enough to appreciate your uniqueness and value.

Are sales important in your business? Copywriting is multiplied salesmanship.

“The principles of copywriting are the principles of salesmanship. Treat it as a salesman. Force it to justify itself. Compare it with other salesmen. It may appeal to thousands while the salesman talks to one, hence every ad should be a super-salesman. A salesman’s mistake may cost little. An advertiser’s mistake may cost a thousand times that much. A mediocre salesman may affect a small part of your business. Mediocre advertising affects all of your business.”
– Claude Hopkins, “Scientific Advertising” 1923

Copywriting is the translation of marketing strategy into words.

Copywriting is based on scientifically established principles of psychology and communication to promote a person, business, opinion, or idea in order persuade the intended recipients of your message to ACT; usually to part with their hard earned money in exchange for your product or service!

No matter what business you are in, you can not afford bad copywriting:

• Ineffective copywriting costs your business money in missed sales opportunities.
• Bad copywriting creates a negative brand image for your business.
• If your website, brochures, advertisements, catalogues, email, direct mail sales letters, whitepapers, videos are failing to persuade your prospects to buy then all the costs of producing and distributing these are wasted! The costs of reaching your customers with your message make up to 80% of all your marketing costs!

More than ever businesses need the services of professional copywriters.

In 2007, Yahoo predicted copywriting as one of the top 5 in demand professions. The explosion of online marketing communication such as websites copywriting and email copywriting has given birth to a much greater demand for copywriters. In today’s hyper competitive business environment what your customers think and feel about your business is one of the last sources of competitive advantage. Everything else can be easily copied. The positive perceptions your customers have about your business are created through effective communication. Communication that is clear and concise. In one word – COPYWRITING!

There are more books and websites about copywriting, more copywriting schools, more copywriting courses and more copywriters than ever before. Yet the general standard of copywriting, that is percentage of good copywriting as a proportion of total copywriting is worse than ever before – just look at the advertisements in your local paper, most industry based publications, your mailbox, and 90% of all websites! In many ways it seems that we have taken a step backwards not learning from the mistakes in the hard work of the great copywriters of the yesteryear.

“Experience has convinced me that the factors that work in mail order advertising work equally well in all advertising. But the vast majority of people who work in agencies, and almost all their clients, have never heard of these factors. That is why they skid hopelessly about on the greasy surface of irrelevant brilliance. They waste millions on bad advertising when good advertising could be selling 19 1/2 times as much.” – “Tested Advertising Methods”, John Caples, First published in 1932.

Much has changed since then – technology, media, the economy. Print was the only mass media vehicle. Attention spans were longer. Mass production was just beginning to bring the benefits of a higher standard of living to the population at large. Majority of products had real points of difference. However the principles established by the grandfathers of advertising, copywriters like John Caples and Claude Hopkins are even more relevant today than they were then. Consumers want their problems solved. They want to save time or effort, save money or make money, have peace of mind, feel good about themselves and have fun.

The Principles of Copywriting (advertising) are based on the understanding of human behaviour and the ability to translate marketing strategy into words (and images) that sell.

If you don’t have the right strategy (product / service) no amount of advertising expenditure or great copywriting will help – remember that good advertising kills bad products faster!

Good copywriting and sales results are a culmination of the right strategy – providing the right product or service to the right people at the right time.

Each of the below types of content or media vehicles require their own skill set to optimise your marketing ROI. Writing blogs is very different to writing a Direct Mail or an Email. qubePartners has gathered all of the content development and copy-writing expertise under one roof for the convenience of our clients.