Learn Web 2.0 Copywriting Strategies in an Evening of Enjoyable Reading
Want your website to sound open, uncontrived, and authentic? Keep reading! In our previous compendiums on copywriting advice, most of the links to Roy Williams’ Monday Morning Memos never made it into the post due to some kind of technical glitch. So to fix that, I started compiling most of my all-time favorite MMM’s that dealt specifically with writing.
Yet as I was compiling these links and re-reading the Memos, a central theme seemed to emerged: many of the Roy’s memos dealt with “The Feel of Real” and how to capture that in your copy - what many of us might call Web 2.0-style copy. With this in mind, I began sorting and grouping those Monday Morning Memos to further highlight this theme.
Read through this collection of Memos and you’ll come away with a sounder idea of the voice of “new marketing” than 95% of the folks hyping that term. And if you want the executive summary, just read the first 2 links in each category - and then let yourself get drawn into the other titles as they spark your interest. Either way, enjoy…
Framing and Understanding the problem:
Hello and Goodbye from John and Jane Doe
Pricing Value, and Saleability
The Solution – How To’s
Facts vs. Value-based statements
The Solution – Advanced Techniques & Examples
Revealing the vivid unexpected
The Language of Shadow and Silence
Magic WordsCan You Make It Talk?
Mental Images, Emotions, and Word Associations
The Magnetic Power of the Mental Image
Visual Images vs. Mental Images
Persona-based Copy
I hope this bit of reading has left you with a strong sense of what authentic, respectful copy sounds and reads like. Better yet, I hope you came away with some great techniques for producing this style of copy. Please feel free to add your own experiences, comments, and links via the comments section.
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Written by:Jeff Sexton
Jeff,
Thanks for putting this list together. It gives me a lot of insight, and answers a lot of questions I had while reading “Waiting for Your Cat to Bark.” Did Roy Williams ever do any movie trailer narration?
Joshua,
I didn’t think that Roy had done any video narration but it was an interesting thought, so I e-mailed him your question. As expected, Roy assured me that, aside from a few video spoofs, he has never narrated a movie trailer. I bet he’d be great at it, though
-Jeff