When producing marketing content for your website, emails or brochures, there is a fine balance between a copywrong and a copywrite. Consider these examples:
Yes, this paragraph gets a star. But it’s still a copyfail.
Copywrong – Copywriting fail
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Copyright – Copywriting win
The win ball is awarded for copyright copywriting
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What’s the difference?
At first glance both the Copywrong and the Copyright paragraphs looks very similar. In fact they pretty much say exactly the same thing, but it is the way in which they are worded which makes the difference.
Imagine Copywrong was a person and spoke to you like that. What do you notice? It’s all “me me me”. The text talks about how great Tech Write’s is and how we can benefit our company. Apparently we know everything and your business should just listen to us. When faced with this kind of aggressive self-promotion, most people switch off. And if your reader switches off, you’ve just achieved a copyfail.
The Copyright paragraph is completely different. This text focuses instead on you, the reader. What are your needs? What do you know? How can we help apply that knowledge for your benefit? It’s all “you you you”. Because our job as copywriters at Tech Write really is to identify your business pain points and address them for your benefit.
The best way to decide whether your copywriting efforts are on target is to review your text from the point of view of your intended reader. Ask yourself “What’s in it for me?” – that’s exactly what your website visitor will be considering as they read your blog. If you cannot answer the question, you’re probably off target and need to engage in a spot of copyediting!
So remember:
- me + me + me = copywrong
- you + you + you = copyright
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