Create Web Content That Sells!: Wow Your Market with Writing Strategies, Search Engine Hints, and Graphic Tips That Work

Capa
Universal-Publishers, 2002 - 160 páginas
Are you ready to build an effective Web site that sells? One that brings in serious prospects? Then Create Web Content That Sells! is for you. It's a tutorial about writing effectively for Web visitors, creating a useable site structure, getting a marketing mind-set, and choosing practical graphics for your Web site.Whether your site sells wrenches to left-handed mechanics, offers landscaping services, or strives to cultivate loyalty in the hearts of your existing customers, the basic tenet of great Web content is universal: speak to your audience. And Create Web Content That Sells! shows you how to get down and dirty, one-to-one, with your audience, through writing, structure, and graphics.Small business people need every edge they can get, so we designed our marketing section to fit this need. Plus, anyone involved in content development will find the writing section extremely valuable.You've found the ideal book if you want a site that will: 1. Sell products. 2. Sell services. 3. Brand your product or business. 4. Improve your image. 5. Make every point clear and concise. 6. Publish your writing or art work.

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Navigation tips
85
The technical stuff
87
What not to do
89
Whats a familiar layout?
92
Search engines and content
95
Overview
96
Procedure
100
SEO philosophy
110

Why do people buy?
13
Market research
17
Your target market
23
Your target response
24
Benefits of your product
25
Features of your product
27
Unique Selling Proposition
30
Whats in a name?
34
Branding
35
General Web writing strategies
39
General structure of a Web page
46
Dissection of a Web site
49
Headlines hype and hooks
62
A Web site of your very own
69
Secure online ordering
70
Complete contact information
72
Guarantees
74
Photos
77
Biography
78
Introduction
81
Web copy
84
Introduction
111
A couple of important terms
113
Bandwidth vs snazzy graphics
114
When are graphics really necessary?
115
Your visual identity
118
The graphic elements of a page
121
How graphics are like Web copy
128
Checklist for judging the graphics of a site
130
Have I succeeded?
131
Create a mood
133
Anticipate questions
134
Update content
136
interactive content
137
Testing testing 123
139
What if the campaign didnt work?
140
Tools to measure your success
141
Final Checklist
143
Terms
145
Resources
151
Conclusion
153
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Página 30 - Each advertisement must make a proposition to the consumer. Not just words, not just product puffery, not just show-window advertising. Each advertisement must say to each reader: "Buy this product and you will get this specific benefit.
Página 41 - A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period.
Página 145 - CROUPS: self-sufficient support systems of people with common interest ATM: automated teller machine BANDWIDTH: the amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time BANNER ADS: images containing advertising content that can be clicked on BRANDING: a device that telegraphically communicates product benefits to consumers to achieve perceptions that will deliver sustainable competitive advantage...
Página 30 - Buy this product and you will get this specific benefit." 2. The proposition must be one that the competition either cannot, or does not, offer. It must be unique — either a uniqueness of the brand or a claim not otherwise made in that particular field of advertising. 3. The proposition must be so strong that it can move the mass millions, ie, pull over new customers to your product.
Página 85 - They go across the top of the page, down the left side of the page, and sometimes at the bottom of each page.
Página 5 - I had no clue as to what she was talking about, but I...
Página 92 - In western cultures we read from left to right and top to bottom.
Página 71 - If you go to your favorite search engine and do a search for "merchant credit card processing," you will find a great many of these companies.

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