How to Keep Your Writing Concise - Learn Online

Blow Your Readers Away With How Concise Your Content Is

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December 13, 2019

This course is brought to you by Appy Pie as part of our Academy series welcome to the third module inside of this course where were you're gonna be learning about focusing your message and focusing your message is incredibly powerful now more so than any other time in history and that's because all of us are bombarded with information on a daily basis it's overwhelming and if we want to learn something figuring out where to start and then once we actually start learning that thing where to get the best information is one of the trickiest things in the world so for example you're in this course where I'm teaching you about copywriting now there is no shortage of information out there about copywriting for free you could go on YouTube you could browse on Google you could talk to other people that know a lot about copywriting but the problem is not the amount of information out there but that it's unfocused if you were to go out on your own and study copywriting it's very easy to get lost and all the noise out there and so the reason why this course is valuable to you is because I'm focusing the information so you're getting the most important information in a very concise format now if you're able to offer your message in this same concise focused way your readers are going to love what you have to share they're going to pay attention to your every word and ultimately they're going to be motivated to take that one action that you want them to take so a big mistake that new copywriters make is they overload their reader with information and this is especially true if you're writing copy for a product that you've created and you're now selling or a service that you're selling the idea is you have spent so much time honing your crafts and becoming an expert in that field that you want to prove to other people how much you know you think that it takes a lot of hard work to develop all that value and now you have to show everyone how much value you've developed but this is a big mistake because when we try to give our reader every piece of knowledge that we've learned we overwhelm them and they actually get no value from it so it's much better if we could just focus our message around one key point and communicate that point in a clearer way because ultimately that's gonna help our reader grow so it's also hard to write clearly when you aren't clear on what you want to say so if you're faced with a blank white screen and you have a billion different ideas of what you could write about that makes it really intimidating to actually start writing it's so hard to start writing when you could take it in a thousand different directions but if you know before you even go down to write your first word of your copy that you want to focus on one key message and you want your reader to feel one main feeling then when you sit down to write those words it's gonna be so much easier because you have a clear goal and foundation of what your writing is going to look like so what we want to do is before we write any piece of copy we want to become clear on four things the first is who are you talking to if we're trying to talk to everyone then we're really talking to nobody so what we want to do is we want to be clear about who our customer avatar is or in other words who is our target market now keep in mind this is a module introduction right now so I get really excited about this topic but don't worry if some of this is going over your head or it feels a little overwhelming because we're gonna dive deep into these topics as you go throughout this module but the key point I want you to take across here is it's so important that we have an idea of who specifically we're talking to if we're picturing in our head this middle-aged woman that has a desire to feel safe and supported when we write directly to her that's so much easier than trying to sell a product or trying to write for anyone we think would be interested in the product that we're offering so we're gonna be very clear on that one person we're writing for before we put pen to paper or he start typing the next thing is what's your big idea so if you can only communicate one main idea from you to your reader what's the most important idea that you want to share with them if they only take away one thing what do you want that one thing to be now I've read a lot of books and the books that have made the biggest difference in my life revolves around one big idea and when I think back to that book I don't think about all of the hundreds or thousands of valuable great quotes that the author had written I just think of the one big idea that they were communicating in all these different ways so it makes it very enjoyable for your reader to read a piece of copy that's focused around a single idea it also makes it much easier for them to change their lives in a positive way by integrating that big idea that you have so you want to become clear on what that idea is before you start writing the next one is what feeling does your reader desire most because when we're writing to someone we don't just want to tap into their logic brain we want to tap into their feelings and their emotions and it's a famous copywriting saying that emotions are what drive people to take action and then their logic is how they justify that action that they've decided to take so feeling is the big driver in your reader to get them to take that action that you want them to take do you want your reader to feel safe do you want your reader to feel excited about something do you want your reader to feel sad there's no limits here depending on the context of what you're trying to write all feelings are okay and there may be a sir feeling that you want to tap into in order to get your message across and finally what's the one action you want your reader to take now if you read the old-school copywriting books you will hear this point over and over and over again what separates copywriting from a lot of other different types of writing is it's very focused by the time your reader goes through your copy you want them to actually do something whether it's to comment on your post whether it's to enroll inside your online course whether it's to come get a haircut haircut at your local salon whatever it is copywriting is focused at one great description that I've heard in those old school copy writing books is you want to think of your copy as a slippery slide so at the beginning of your copy with your headline someone's entering the slide and they're just taken from each sentence to the next to the next because it's so enjoyable and so easy for them to read it until eventually the end at the bottom of your slide where they're taking that single action but we want to make sure that we're clear on what that action is before we go ahead and write and in some cases you may not want your reader to take any action so in that case you don't want your reader to do anything other than understand your big idea but if possible the majority of the time you want to make sure that your copy is leading your reader to take an action so I love this picture of an eagle just because when I think of an eagle I think of focus they're so laser focused on that animal or that thing and when you think about your copy imagine yourself as an eagle make sure you're focused on those four things that we talked about inside of this video you've got an introduction to what this module is going to be about.

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