Pat Friesen writes a very good column on copywriting (you’d expect that of a copywriter, wouldn’t you?) in Target Marketing. When recently sorting through my backlog of reading, I came across her article in the March 2009 issue on (click on the headline for more…)
Sell More With Action Verbs
When writing copy about a product, it’s natural to describe it. If that’s all you do, you’re making a huge mistake. Start by painting a word picture of the end benefit, and you’ll almost certainly increase sales. Action verbs wield far more power than static descriptions. As an example, Google “greenhouses,” scroll to the bottom […]
