Why Content and Copy are the Keys to Successful Online Marketing
What are the missing ingredients that prevent more people from succeeding with online marketing?
Content strategies and copywriting skills.
Compelling content drives the Internet, so the content is the marketing. And using the right words in the right way will determine not only how well your site converts visitors into sales, but also how well you rank in search engines and how many links you get.
Now that blogging has become the smartest strategy for growing an authoritative web site, it’s your copywriting and content marketing skills that will set you apart for success. Copyblogger is all about helping you:
- get traffic
- attract links
- gain subscribers
- sell stuff!
All you need to do is write in a strategic, persuasive, compelling manner.
The Art and Science of Compelling Copy
Copywriting is all about words that get people to take some form of action. That action could be a purchase or a phone call, or it could be a link, a bookmark, or a retweet on Twitter that generates the traffic you need.
In other words, copywriting is getting people to respond the way you want them to.
We all use persuasion techniques each and every day, whether consciously or not. With our spouses, kids, parents, bosses, vendors, employees and customers, we try to do and say things that move them in the direction we desire.
Now it’s time to learn how to do it in writing, as well as in your podcasts and videos. That’s what Copyblogger is all about.
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Social Media and Compelling Content: A Perfect Match
Remarkable social media content and great sales copy are pretty much the same — plain spoken words designed to focus on the needs of the reader, listener or viewer. In an overly-crowded marketplace, copywriting techniques allow you to capture attention and convert it into trust, sales, and profit.
It’s not about fancy writing and big words.
It’s also not about being contrived or cheesy.
And it’s absolutely not about inappropriate high pressure sales techniques that simply don’t work online.
So go ahead… sign up for free updates today and join founder Brian Clark, Senior Editor Sonia Simone, and our large group of talented writers as we explore the fascinating opportunities in blogging and other online marketing strategies.
About Brian Clark
Copyblogger was founded in January of 2006 by Brian Clark. Brian is a writer/producer, entrepreneur, and recovering attorney.
Brian built three successful offline businesses using online marketing techniques before switching to a producer model that involves building, monetizing, and occasionally selling online media properties. He shares one of his favorite strategies in the Teaching Sells training program.
Copyblogger has over 100,000 subscribers and more than 240,000 unique monthly site visitors. And we’ve been fortunate that people say a lot of nice things about us:
- The Guardian named Copyblogger one of the world’s 50 most powerful blogs.
- Copyblogger founder Brian Clark was ranked #3 of the 100 Most Influential Online Marketers of 2009.
- Advertising Age ranks Copyblogger as a top blog about marketing.
- Technorati says Copyblogger is one of the most popular blogs in the world.
- The editors of Performancing named Brian Clark the most influential blogger of 2007.
- BusinessWeek says entrepreneurs should follow Copyblogger on Twitter.
Brian has been featured in the following books:
- Linchpin by Seth Godin.
- Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin.
- Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
- Internet Marketing From the Real Experts (Contributor)
- The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott.
- Free Agent Nation by Daniel Pink.
- e-Riches 2.0 by Scott Fox
- Gravitational Marketing by Jimmy Vee and Travis Miller.
- Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields.
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