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I will rather say who should or who are more likely to become an excellent sales writer. Its straight and simple, some one who understands his prospects the best. It can be any employee of your company, basically the marketing team. The key is to live with your prospects, walk with them, understand their egos and understand their real world. This is when you truly understand their lives, their motivational points, their problems, their emotional hook points and all the pleasure and pain points which induces buying in them
Any sales writer or for that matter any marketing guru fails in understanding this simple truth will have a hard time selling his product or service. So the formeost point is to get this thing right. Then and only then think about writing or marketing your stuff. Brands which understood this always succedded others no matter how big they were failed miserably.
“Anyone can become a sales writer”, I just do not go with this popular theory. Of course someone with an inborn talent or inclination to write can become a good sales writer. If you go through my previous article on “How to write killer sales copy” you can deduce a basic idea on how to get started. The rest comes from understanding your prospects better and from writing and rewriting a lot of copy.
Right now do this exercise, take any written ad content of your product or service and try to rewrite it with all those principles in mind, rewrite the copy until you feel lifted looking at your work. Write as much as you can and you will slowly notice a clear difference in the way you write your copy.
Another thing that most copywriters do is get their work critiqued by their colleagues or friends who understand sales. Just take in the common feedbacks that you receive then judge them based on 2 points, first, will the change make my copy more effective and second, will the change bring in a whole new point that talks more about the benefit my customer will experience. If the feedback qualifies in these aspects then do not thing twice in making those changes else simply discard the feedback. For expert feedbacks you can get your copy critiqued by a professional copywriter.
That's all for now,
Sajith Kumar This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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