Nick James

"Hey Joe, we've just spent a bomb on getting that well known Marketing guy to work his marketing magic for us. And do you know what? He charges £4000.00 a day!"

Bragging rights is all well and good, so long as there's a measurable result at the end of the investment.

But... what happens when the business adviser, consultant or whatever name you want to give it, finds all the hidden assets in your business and how to take advantage... is able to show how to exploit all the leakages in your business... gives you a marketing plan to follow and implement as soon as his work with you is over...

Then what?

From my research and snooping around, there seems to be an enormous number of businesses who have indeed hired outside expert help to help with sales, profits, systems, marketing... but... have done NOTHING with the information they've paid for!

Alarming?

Not really. You see, us humans have this unusual behavior. It's wanting something bad enough, and when we get it, we rarely do anything with it.

Look at exercise equipment, diets, business opportunities...

How many people do you know who've dived into any of the above, probably with the greatest intentions in the world... but then... it all fizzled out for them?

Let me tell you that I know quite a few!

And what's the statistic with those who buy a book? The startling figure is only 10% of people who purchase a book, actually have the desire, patience, discipline... to get through the FIRST CHAPTER!

Remarkable.

So, what this means is that there's a handful business owners who will actually DO SOMETHING with the advice to improve their business.

But, that's not the only thing.

Of those businesses who have been handed a MARKETING BLUEPRINT to work from, the key component in stitching it all together... is the COPYWRITING, THE SALES COPY.

When you think about it, a business will never progress to the heights they want if the sales copy doesn't get written. I mean, nothing happens.

Products or services can't get purchased... joint ventures can't be put together... seasonal promotions can't get realised... email campaigns get put on the back burner...

As you can see, getting the sales copy written, is... EVERYTHING!

And that's true for any business - the small mom and pop corner shop, the freelancer, the professional practice, the medium sized business or the huge corporate elephant. Everything depends on making the sales copy work in order to support the marketing strategy, the tactic, the idea.

Just look at your own business.

What would happen to your sales, profits, customers... if your existing sales copy was enhanced, boosted, transformed? Wouldn't you honestly see a greater return for your effort?

And what about the new or additional products you're thinking about offering your customers and prospects... what would happen if there was no promotional or marketing material written, no website created, no forward momentum created?

Well, the plain and simple answer is NOTHING would happen. And, it'll continue to be that way unless and until THE ADVERTISING COPY GETS WRITTEN!

And as you'll know from the marketing and copywriting articles you've been receiving for a little while now, the sales copy and advertising writing I'm talking about has all to do with direct response advertising, and not the institutional, technical or traditional based copywriting that's quite frankly... A BORE TO READ.

And... just to reiterate, direct response copy is writing that's designed to sell, to create a customer, to promote a business for a specific end result, without boring the prospect or customer.

You see, purchasing and selling, shouldn't be a boring process, especially for the purchaser. I mean, the poor soul is bombarded, day in day out with hundreds of sales and marketing messages.

And, the fact of the matter is our prospect could brush right through a number of advertising messages EVEN THOUGH IT COULD BE A PRODUCT OR SERVICE THAT THE BOMBARDED PERSON, WANTS!

So, can you now see how vital it is to ensure that your goal of your business is to get the Copywriting DONE for your particular product or service?

Can you honestly see how stalled your dreams, aspirations and ambitions can be, simply because of the advertising isn't getting done?

Isn't it true that you'd probably crank out a lot more promotions for your business (which means even more sweet profits flying into your bank account!) if your ability to write the advertising copy for them was done faster, more accurately and, with more focus and intensity?

And, what about every single area of your life... don't you feel that if you were able to craft effective, persuasive written or oral communication, your life would take on a completely different shape and colour?

I personally think it would!

And it can all happen for you, the moment you decide to shrug off all the inhibitions & pre-conceived notions you may have about Direct Response Advertising Writing, or, about your own ability to make things happen.

For once you set your mind to it and decide to run with the ideas and thoughts in this article, the words will just flow and your life will alter, dramatically.

Don't you just love the idea of getting people to part with their money and throw it in your direction, simply because of your ability to string words and sentences together in order to get people to buy?

Well, that's what'll happen once you decide, truly decide, to make marketing at the heart of your business operations, and, to truly 'get' that nothing major happens until THE ADVERTISING COPY GETS WRITTEN.