Essential Copywriting Tips For Small Business Owners

Are you the proud owner of a small business? However, with the past few months, your business has been experiencing some dry spells. Customers are not coming in as they used to be. You might even get some feedback that your business is boring and that you need to spice things up. And that is what these copywriting tips will do for you.

Let’s face it. You are not having the best year since you opened the doors of your store. And it does not matter if it is a brick and mortar business or an online venture, the fact remains that you need revitalize your marketing to keep those customers coming in. But where should you start? Simple. You should start with your copywriting because that is where most marketing hits start from. Are you ready? Let’s get started.

First of all, if you have some money to spare, why not hire a professional copywriter to do all your copy for you? But the thing is, all those really good, expert-level copywriters can charge up to thousands of dollars for their writing services. And at this time of the year you just cannot afford to part with that amount of money. So what is your best option? Do your own copy writing. If you are aware that you are really not good in writing, maybe your partner can do it for you or an employee perhaps.

So the first of these copywriting tips would be finding and listing down all of your products’ (or services) benefits and features. Why is this important? So that you will know which of these are worth highlighting in your copy or promotional spiels, great enough to attract the attention of most of your customers. An example of a feature, let’s say for a laptop computer would be a super fast processor. What would be its benefit? You can do more and faster with it. Or you can run a multitude of resource-hogging programs all at the same time. You get the idea?

If you are writing a sales letter, you can determine the length of your letter based on the price of the product you are selling. If your product costs a mere $ 17 price tag, then you do not need a mile-long sales letter to make the necessary conversion. Of course saying that is a mile is just an exaggeration, but you get my point. The reason behind this is that people will need more time convincing them to pay for something that is expensive, say about a thousand dollar worth of a product, or even a few couple of hundreds than when you are selling something that is just worth a few bucks.

And when you are writing your copy, always aim for your customer’s emotions. If you are selling mobile phones, consider writing a marketing message built around the idea of connecting families together through calls, text messaging, and the mobile web.

These are just some of the essential copywriting tips that you should put into use if you want to see any real and satisfactory results from your marketing campaign. Always remember that it always takes all the right words to make that all important sale.

Email marketing is a tool that is underutilized yet, is one of the greatest profit boosters in all of marketing.

What I like about this tool is that it allows you to provide: outstanding customer satisfaction to customers,
helps motivate your customers to return and purchase more, and encourages your potential customers to eventually come to their senses and purchase your products and services.

If used correctly you can double or triple your revenue and profit, while spending a fraction of the cost in marketing.

That’s what I call the ideal marketing tool for a small business.

The Greatest Marketing Tool Ever

I know it is a bit unbelievable to think that one thing could be the best marketing tool ever created.

But email marketing comes darn close.

Here are the reasons why:

1. Its personal.

Since people buy for emotional and personal reasons, it only makes sense that you sell to them on a personal level.

Email marketing is a one on one conversation with your customer who has allowed you to contact them. You are not making a public announcement; you are talking directly to your customer (or potential customer).

What better way to remain in contact, and make your customer feel like they are special than an email that says – “I thought of you and I wanted to let you know you are special.”

2. Its quick.

Most customers (especially business customers) do not have the time to read all of their mail. They do not have the time to answer every phone call, or even return every message.
They do however have the time to glance at all of their email messages, and they will open the ones that they think are valuable or worthwhile.

If you get in their inbox the next step will be to make your email headline so compelling and juicy that they will want to open it.

3. Its consistent.

The statistic is that 97% of people will not buy right away. This means that the majority of people you sell to will not be ready to say yes to a purchase.

But the statistic also says that the majority of those people will eventually buy. And some of them will even refer their friends.

The greatness about email marketing is that you can consistently send out emails to your prospects – and when they are ready to buy, they will go to the company that has been consistently there for them over the past few months.

With a great email campaign – that will be you.

4. It provides increasing value to your customer.

In today’s economy customers are purchasing only when they see enough value to justify their purchase. And they will stay with a company that provides them consistent and increasing value over time.

What better way to provide consistent value to your customers than by sending them weekly or biweekly emails that give them great content, tips, resources, etc. that they find valuable?

5. It’s cheap.

If you want to get a message out to the hundreds or thousands of customers and prospects you have, it will cost a lot of money if you do it via mail. If you do it via phone it will cost you a ton of time.

Email is one of the best ways to send a personal message to all of your customers and prospects, in one shot – and it will maybe cost you at most a few dollars a month.

6. It sells.

Statistically your current and previous customers have a 50 – 80% chance of buying from you again. Also it cost 5 – 15 times more to go out to find new customers.

This means that the lion’s share of profits is in your database of names and contact information. You could literally double or triple your profits if you are consistently marketing and selling to your current customers.

Email provides you with the opportunity to consistently send your marketing and sales promotions to customers, which they will get and use often – increasing the value of each customer.

7. It is automated.

Let’s say you have a marketing brochure or flyer that you are thinking about sending to clients but it costs too much to send via mail. That same brochure can be broken up into 5 – 7 small emails that your customer can get automatically over a few weeks – with offers and promotions included.

So you get the sale for a fraction of the time and cost. Talk about a killer ROI.
So if you want to make more money, even double or triple your profits – while spending a whole lot less in time and money – then email marketing is the ideal solution for your small business.

Give it a try…You won’t regret it.