The article "More Insider Secrets to Great Copywriting - Judging Your Target Market" is about copywriting, it has been created by Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero.
This week we're giong to reinforce the training that Recruits of my Red Hot Copywriting Bootcamp are drilled on. In case you did not read my last article we coveerd what you MUST do before you write a single word of copy.
Each weekday we build on your skills of creating your copy from the ground up following my Field Guide. By the end of that copywriting Bootcamp you won't guess that it was you capable of writing such a professional sales letter.Get out your pen and paper, set your timer for 15 minutes, and let's go!How do you start? !
We connect to the preson reading. Copywriting is a team sport. There's you, the writer and the reader.
The reader gets to decdie when the game's over. As soon as the reader is gone, they're not reading your copy anymore. So you're anticipating what's going to keep them inetrested and intrigued with your copy ahead of time.
Here's how it's done.Pick a primary target marekt. (Yes you can have more than one, but the more speicfic you make your target market, the easier it will be to sell to them.
For our purposes, you need to pick one specific target market.) Let's define just what I mean and how I create my audience as a real person in my Field Guide.Target + Market = Tarket - a singular way to look at wrtiing to one person rather than a mob.
Get that one concept down and your copy will bond effortlessly with the reader.
Because it's just you and her in the room.
(Opps - I let out a secnod of my secrets. We're limited in the English language when it comes to identifying rather than "he" I advise if you use the pronoun "she" instead.
Your copy will go through a subtle filter that you may find is more palatable to more of your audience than you imagined.
Of course, it depends on who your target market is.)We have a lot to cover here, so don't miss a single word. You must know the education level of your target audience to write effectviely. In general, even educated persons don't mind reading smiple words. Simple means clear. But there's a fine line between talking down to your market. Don't go there.
For the most part, Americans read between the 11th and 12th grade levels.Did you know that best-selling books are written for the 8th to 10th grade level?
"Reader's Digest" aims for the 10th grade level, while "Time" and "The Wall Street Journal" recah for the 11th. So Keep It Simple, Sweetheart! Prepare a Fact Sheet for your target marekt. Write down all the facts and demographic information you know about them. Here are a couple of questinos to get you started;
Age
Gender
Education
Family status
Socioeconomic status
Profession/occupation
Hobbies
Geographic location
Media they consume (including Web sites, blogs, magazines, television shows)
Etc…
Now, find a picture of your newly born "tar-ket".
Make him or her as real as possible.
In fact, he or she can BE real. If you would like to focus on a client or friend that fits the bill, that's fine too. Just do the brian work.BONUS - Have a couple of more minutes on the clock? Do a search in Google (http://www.Google.Com) on your target market and see what pops up.
Check out a couple of Web sites whlie you're at it.Now reset the timer and do YOUR product. My goal is to get your copy up to speed FAST so you can start marketing yourself.I like to use the analogy of one of those monstrous cricular targets you see used in archery. You want to get into the bull's eye of who your tagret market is. I want to get rgiht in that bright red circle at the center. But those concentric circles aruond it are also valuable.
They do have different value points.
But the funny thing is that the more speciifc you are the more you are in the bull's eye. The more the concentric circles are pulling you towards the center, you are still attracting the same persons.
It's amazing but true that persons don't need to worry about appealnig to everybody.Putting yourself in the shoes of your client is the hottest thing you can ever do. When you start thinking and anticipating what's going on in their minds, that's when your copy's going to start connecting. And that's what we do as copywriters.So where do you grab that Field Guide for more copywriting exercises?
Sorry. Only recruits of my Booctamp can get it for now. So sign up today for the next session.
It will be one of the hotetst business decisions you've ever made. http://www.Red-hot-copy.Com/rhcbootcamp.Htm International copywriting trainer, author and speaker, Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero has been a ferelance writer and journalist for over 25 years. Her wodrs have made her clients hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now she focuses her vast experience on teaching others the skill of copywriting. Lorrie is the author of an award winning copywriting course, creator of the Red Hot Copywriting Bootcamp and founder of Copy Campus, a unique membership resource site desgined to support copywriters and entrepreneurs on all levels. Visit her site to learn more at http://www.Red-hot-copy.Com.
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