Do you have the copywriting skills necessary to convert your articles into sales? You can learn to write better articles with just a few copywriting skills. This article suggests learning the skill of copywriting to skyrocket your sales.

Here are three tips you can use to get you started.

Emotional Words

Use emotional words. Use words that excite like ‘fascinating’ and ‘electrifying’, words that fire images of romance like ‘passionate’ and ‘magical’,  and words that paint visions of pleasure like ‘ecstasy’ and ‘gratifying’. These are just a few of the categories that will motivate your reader to continue reading. I am sure you can think of other types of words that will create images in your reader.

Leading Questions

Ask leading questions. Ask the reader a question and answer it for him. “Do you want to make money, now? Of course, you do.” That is an example of a question and answer. Raising a question prepares the reader for a response. By answering it immediately, you have given him a response confirming what he already knows. It directs him to your logical conclusion, which is to buy your product.

Alluring Titles

Write an alluring title. You have just a few seconds to capture a reader’s attention. You can have the greatest content and the best copywriting techniques at your disposal, but without a captivating title your article will go unread. Use those emotional words mentioned in the first tip. If you can combine emotional words with your keywords, not only will your reader want to read your article, but the search engines will tag your article and you will get even more readers.

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This short article is not at all exhaustive of the techniques and tips used in copywriting. If you are serious about making money with article writing, Don’t delay in learning the art and skill of copywriting. Learning this skill will dramatically increase your sales.

These three tips alone can improve your sales, but there are many more.

If you are serious about improving your writing skills, and I expect you are, because are reading this, I suggest you owe it to yourself to use a training and coaching course on copywriting  and begin your copywriting journey.

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Here are three MS Word tools to improve your articles.

1. Check your spelling – This seems obvious. Still many do not use their spell checker. If you use a plain text editor to create your articles, you can easily overlook even the most common of spellings.

Simply copy your text from the plain text editor, like notepad or word pad, and copy it to your word processor and do a spell check. You will be surprised at the misspelled words you may have overlooked.

2. Write at a fifth to seventh grade level. – Use the MS Word Spelling and Grammar checker found under the Review Tab at the top of the MS Word page to determine the age level that you are writing for. After selecting the spell checker and completing the spell check, it will ask you if you want to continue checking the rest of the document.

Respond with yes and a box will pop up called Readability Statistics. At the very bottom of the box is the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score. You want that score to be between fifth and seventh grade level. Most of your readers will read at that level. If it is a higher grade level, edit with simpler words.

3. Passive sentences – That same box will also give you the number of passive sentences in your article. You want to keep this at a minimum. You should keep passive sentences to no more than two or three for every five-hundred words. There is nothing wrong with passive sentences and there is no hard fast rule to the number of passive sentences you should use. But, you do want to make your sentences action oriented to help the reader move easily throughout the body of your article.

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We have looked at three tips that you can use to improve the quality of your articles and ultimately salability of your articles. Keep in mind that content is king and no tools can create unique quality content like you can.

Quality content and good copywriting skills are necessarily a must. Let MS Word do some of the work for you. Use the three tips and your quality will improve.

Are you writing good content and still not getting the traffic you need to make sales? The solution is in copywriting. Add copywriting  skills to your quiver of techniques and your sales can go nowhere but up.

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Let’s restrict our Google search ‘the same phrase + writing’. That limits the results to a little over 33,000,000. That is much better, but still a number that will give you a mind-boggling list of definitions. Since we are article marketers, we will restrict our search even further to ‘quality content writing + for article marketers’ now we get a mere 1,450,000 results. We are definitely getting somewhere.

Bear with me. I will make one last stab at this search. Searching for “quality content writing for article marketers + definition’, we get a measly 107,000 returns. Do you think there might still be a vast assortment of definitions in that search? You bet!

Reading over some of those definitions everybody has an opinion. I’m sure you have an opinion for the definition. You have an opinion because you have published articles and they are examples of what you think the definition should be.

That is the point. Definitions for ‘quality content for article marketers’ are subjective and relative to the conditions in which you apply them. Does that make sense? You define it by the content you write, the audience you want to attract, or the publisher who may or may not define it for you.

Are there standards? Yes, there are. We will assume that grammar is not an issue, that your articles are grammatically correct. Here are some questions you should ask yourself, as an article marketer, when attempting to write good quality content.

• Does your article contain good information that is relative to the audience you are addressing? You should know who your audience is.
• Have you researched the subject or topic of your article to the degree that the information is current and accurate? Are you writing from experience? If you are, you must still check for timeliness and accuracy.
• Are you addressing the issue raised by your title? The reader is expecting to read about the problem, the tips, or the solutions raised in the title. Do not mislead your reader.
• Finally, as an article marketer, what is your goal in writing this article? I am sure you will agree that ultimately you want the reader to buy your product. You must learn the skill of using words that motivate. Use words that motivate your reader to action imbedding them in the content without detracting from the quality.

As you know, there are many opinions as to what quality content is. Yet, you can read an article and very often agree whether the content is worthwhile.

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The popularity of the internet and its inexhaustible searching capabilities is a boon to article marketing. With the onslaught of article writing as a marketing technique has come a multitude of mass article distribution sites and automated article distribution software.

This technology makes the drudgery of manual article submission as simple as the push of a few buttons. In minutes, your article is exposed to hundreds of publishers. Have you ever felt that even though you submit to hundreds of article directories or even just a few, you still do not get the sales you expect?

What good is exposure in hundreds of directories without readers? I think you would agree that an approach based solely on the quantity of submissions is wasted effort.

In some circles exposure, the numbers game, is king. It is one of the most important ingredients in getting traffic and ultimately sales. The more you publish, the more money you will make.

As an article marketer, you know that there is truth in that philosophy. Unfortunately, article submitting software and mass distribution directories make it easier for article marketers to forget why they write articles.

The ease of article submission has fostered an idea that the quantity of articles is what matters most. Here are three proven steps to improve your sales before you submit to article directories.

1. Information

Aside from the desire to profit from your article, what is the purpose of writing an article in the first place? What is the primary goal of an article? I think you would agree that it is to inform.

2. Content

Be aware of your content. Content is not just information. It is information directed to a specific audience. Is the content what you promised the reader? If your readers read only the first few sentences of your article and then they move on, where is the value to your effort? Article directories love good quality content writing.

3. Copywriting

Finally, combine good informative quality content writing with good copywriting skills. Informative content will get your reader to read the article. But, will it sell the reader? Learn the basics of copywriting and your sales will jump dramatically.

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Quality content writing does not imply best-seller prose. It is, as mentioned earlier, presenting good information. You do not have to be on the New York Times bestseller list to write good informative articles.

Are your articles not getting the traffic you expect? Maybe you do write good content, but the traffic is not there.

Perhaps you should consider learning the art and skill of copywriting. Quality content writing will inform your readers. Applying the skill of copywriting to that content will close your sale.

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Copywriting

In its simplest form, copywriting is nothing more than using your words to convince a reader to buy your product.  It is consumer psychology 101. Unconsciously we use it verbally everyday. It comes naturally to us.  We use it with our friends, our enemies, and our families. It is a simple technique.

Have you ever asked anyone to choose between two items? You probably have. What you have done is create a picture in the person’s mind of the two choices. Most often that person’s brain has focused on those two things and on no others.  You have controlled the outcome of his decision by limiting his choice to one of the two items.

That is just one of the many techniques that you can use to motivate readers to take action. Other examples include offering pleasure vs. pain, gain over loss,… As you can see, copywriting stirs emotion.  You use words to paint a picture in the brain that evokes an emotion.  The emotion then converts into action.  You, the copywriter, direct that emotion to buy your product.

Can you be a copywriter? Of course, you can.  It is a writing skill. It is a learned skill. With practice, you can accomplish anything. Remember, you use it naturally in your everyday speech.

Article Writing

I am sure you are familiar with this form of writing. In its purest form, it provides nothing but information to a reader. It solves a problem, gives instructions, or it may just spout an opinion. Article writing is much less a form of advertising than its brother, copywriting.  The author is selling his information to the reader, not necessarily selling a product.  Readers of this form of writing, for the most part, do not expect buy something after reading the article.

Article writing is also a learned skill. You are not required to have the imagination of Jules Verne or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Have you ever written yourself a “to do” list? Have you jotted down a reminder note to yourself?  Sure, you have.  Well, then, you can write an article. If you can read, you can write an article.

The Difference

Perhaps, now you see the difference. Copywriting sells. Article writing informs. When we combine the two skills we have a very powerful tool, article marketing.

Do you lack copywriting skills? Now you can learn how to use copywriting and create articles that are more profitable. Are your article marketing sales suffering? Learn how to write, submit, and market your articles.

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