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10 KEY RULES OF
     EFFECTIVE
COPYWRITING FOR THE
        WEB
SCANNABILITY
• Get
    to the point succinctly and with the fewest
 amount of words possible.

• Lots   of line breaks

• Headlines   and subheadlines

• Keep   people's eyes moving down the page. 
THE HOOK

• Make  it easy for the user to
  see "what do I get out of
  it?"

• If
   you can’t answer the
  question, try again!
ACTIONABLE
• “Choose Your   Own Adventure”

• Don’t   create dead-end content
SURROUNDINGS
• Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc   -- these all should
 influence word choice
BE MINDFUL OF
  THE RETURN

• What    are you doing to get people to return?

 • Less   about bombastic impact, more about the relationship
GIVE IT AWAY
• Free   is extremely important online

• Evenif you want them to pay, you’re going to need
 to use free as a gateway drug
USE TEXT
• Text-in-images   can’t be read by search engines

• All   email programs block images.
WORD-AS-PICS CAN
  WORK THO
COUNTER-
  PROGRAMMING
• Rules   were made to be broken.

• Pivot   away from the trends to stand out.
ABOVE ALL, BE
 AUTHENTIC

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