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Copywriting for web sites is not the same as copywriting for brochures or radio or direct mail. There are subtle differences that make Internet copywriting a specialty all to itself. Online copywriting must take into consideration the format of the copy, how the visitor arrived at your site, the strength of your headlines and sub-headlines, whether there is a need for search engine copywriting and a multitude of other elements that come into play with online copywriting, but not offline copywriting. You’ll find lots of quality resources in this section to help with copywriting for web sites. If you are specifically interested in sales letter copy, visit the direct mail copywriting section.

 

Internet Copywriting Ebooks and Books

the step by step copywriting course
Make Your Copy Pre-Sell

Make Your Copy Pre-Sell
by Ken Evoy Cost: FREE

Want to write effectively for the Web? Want to deep-connect with visitors to your site? Want to have raving fans of your e-zine, not merely "satisfied subscribers?"

It's all part of "PREselling"... that critical period of relationship-building before the sale. Internet master seller Ken Evoy shows you how to do it right with his latest e-book, Makr Your Copy Pre-Sell.

This short, but powerful, ebook will have your profits jumping for joy. And all for just a little, tiny $10 investment.


 

Persuasive Online Copywriting: How To Take Your Words To the Bank
by Bryan Eisenberg

Your online copywriting must persuade - it’s integral to getting your visitors or readers to register, subscribe, qualify as leads, and yes, even buy from you. It’s writing that must earn its keep. And to effectively manage the quality of your online copywriting, you need to understand what works, why it works and how to make it work better for you. Whether you are the marketer responsible for the bottom line or the writer creating the copy, Persuasive Online Copywriting provides the tools you need to get results.


the step by step copywriting course
The Step-by-Step Copywriting Course

Karon Thackston

Buy For
$89.00

The Step-by-Step Copywriting Course
by Karon Thackston

Whether you need to create Internet copywriting or find copywriting techniques for other media, The Step-by-Step Copywriting Course shows you exactly what you need to know. From determining who your target audience really is to discovering their preferred communication style to writing the actual copy itself, you'll learn from lots of examples and practice lessons.

You'll also discover how to create search engine copywriting that impresses both your visitors and the search engines.  You'll be able to boost your profits and rankings at the same time.


Net Words
by Nick Usborne

Advertising and promotion professionals have long known that, while bells and whistles may grab a customer's attention, words make the sale. Yet, nearly a decade into the Web revolution, E-commerce professionals are just now waking up to the fact that the usual high-tech, graphics-heavy approach to site design is bad for business.

Net Words explores the reasons why and makes a strong case for a revolutionary new approach to Internet copywriting tailored to the unique demands of a powerful new medium. With the help of dozens of examples of successful and unsuccessful online copywriting, author Nick Usborne shows you how to harness the power of the written word for the Web. Readers learn how to imbue a business with a distinctive online "voice" and use it to forge lasting bonds with customers, increase market share, and close sales.


Make Your Words Sell

Joe Robson & Ken Evoy

Buy For
$29.95

Make Your Words Sell
by Joe Robson

Selling software on the Net? Infoproducts? A service? Million dollar cables for suspension bridges? If you want to sell more... Use the right words. Because words sell, not graphics.

To sell more, write better. Make the most productive use of words, words that address the needs and wants of your customers.

Make Your Words Sell! concerns itself with the only kind of Web site copywriting of interest to serious Internet marketers the world over. It's about Internet copywriting that grabs attention – and holds it tight. It's about copywriting for web sites that persuades, and motivates readers into action.

To put it simply... It's about writing words that sell on the Net.


 

Web Word Wizardry A Net-Savvy Writing Guide
by Rachel McAlpine

At last, a comprehensive book on copywriting for web sites and intranets. With both authority and enthusiasm, web-wordsmith Rachel McAlpine illuminates the twilight zone between web design and traditional business writing. This fun and practical guide is crammed with expert advice on how to make online copywriting readable, usable, findable, accessible, and credible--all the necessary ingredients for a heavily trafficked, highly profitable web site.

Everything's here, from keywords to titles, ezines to alt-text, global English to optimizing web sites for search engines. Screenshots and checklists throughout make it easy for web designers. No web design experience necessary. More traffic, more responses, more profit--it's all done with words!


 

The Online Copywriter's Handbook
by Robert Bly

The Web has developed its own set of rules and attitudes for creating hard-hitting Internet copywriting. Robert Bly's The Online Copywriter's Handbook is the first practical and authoritative guide to what exactly those rules are and how they differ from writing for print audiences. From novices just taking their first online copywriting steps to veterans looking to add impact and results to their online efforts, it covers everything from general fundamentals of writing effective copy to specific tips and traps when copywriting for web sites.


 

The Web Writer's Guide
by Darlene Maciuba-Koppel

Drawing on the advice of experts in the field, The Web Writer's Guide serves as the ideal sourcebook for tips and ideas for freelance and staff writers of online content. This book provides writers of all levels with the information they need in an accessible, easy-to-use fashion. To the many deadline- and project-conscious writers out there who need to further adapt to the dynamics of digital media, this easy-to-use, comprehensive guide serves as a remarkable guidepost.

Featuring interviews with Web writers and developers, this guide will offer writers the benefit of many years' combined field experience as well as a sense of how the content factors into various online publications.

The Web Writer's Guide toolkit includes twenty-four checklists, worksheets, and forms that aid online writers to submit complete, concise, and clean copy. The checklists are also useful career path tools. For those new to online writing, the Quick Start section of the book is organized to help you produce quality copy quickly and professionally, for the first time and thereafter.


 

Effective E-Mail Marketing: The Complete Guide to Creating Successful Campaigns
by Herschell Gordon Lewis

E-mail is today's most powerful marketing medium. It is also the most misunderstood. This dynamic book dispenses real-life examples of e-mail campaign successes and failures -- explaining exactly why each soared or sank.

Effective E-Mail Marketing shows online copywriters how to avoid these and hundreds of other problems, and how to craft messages that build rapport -- and sales -- to consumers worldwide. All marketers using the Web will want to look here first to learn the truth about:

* Adapting mass-market messages to this one-to-one medium * Strategies for increasing mailing frequency without increasing "opt-outs" * Techniques that reach through the screen to grab the reader * Words and phrases that drive response -- and those that guarantee rejection.

 

Online Copywriting Seminars

 

Dan Kennedy
Copywriting Seminar
In A Box


Dan Kennedy

Buy For
$497.00-$697.00

 

Copywriting Seminar In A Box
by Dan Kennedy

Only 115 people were permitted to attend Dan Kennedy's recent, closed door, 2-day seminar where he revealed ALL of his most prized, most powerful and most profitable online copywriting techniques.

Now you can attend Dan's special seminar at home, at your convenience, via audio and video tape, and two hefty manuals including lots of exhibits and examples. You'll not only get the value of the seminar - you'll also have powerful "tools" you'll keep referring to and using over and over again. This "Copywriting Seminar-In-A-Box" is being offered in a limited number, for a limited time.

This high-powered seminar was completely sold-out and there was a long waiting list of others who desperately wanted to attend but couldn't. And, unfortunately, Dan has decided he will not conduct a seminar like this ever again. However, the seminar WAS captured on tape and now it's available to you. You can learn Dan's money-generating offline and online copywriting secrets from the comfort of your own home.

Hard To FInd Seminars

Michael Senoff

Buy For
$17 per month

Hard To Find Seminars
by Michael Senoff

Subscribe today and you'll have instant access to all 87 hours of exclusive audio interviews, recordings and marketing lessons plus word-for-word typed transcripts and 6 special bonuses.

Downloadable audio interviews, marketing lessons and transcripts by Gary Halbert, Jay Conrad Levinson, John Carlton, Brian Keith Voiles, Martin Howey, Bill Myers, Carl Galletti, Ted Nicholas, Joe Vitale, The PR Doctor, Millionaire Mr. X, Taylor Trump, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Mr. Arthur Hamel, Michael Senoff and many other marketing experts ready for you to listen to right now.

 

Other Internet Copywriting Resources

 

 

The Web Content Style Guide: An Essential Reference for Online Writers, Editors and Managers
by Gerry McGovern

As quality becomes ever more critical in differentiating successful websites, the need for a professional approach to your content is growing. The Web Content Style Guide provides a set of standards and rules to ensure consistent quality content and a flawless service to your readers.

From accessibility to animation, from fonts to forms, from grammar to global navigation, The Web Content Style Guide takes you through all the vital topics in a clear and concise way that will earn it a permanent place by your keyboard.




How To Kit:
The Permission Emailer's Guide to Avoiding Filters


Marketing Sherpa

Buy For
$149

How-to Kit: Get Your Permission Email Past Filters - Marketer's Handbook + Audio CDs
Created by Marketing Sherpa

Worried about filters stopping your newsletters or email campaigns? Get practical, hands-on advice:

Every time you send an email newsletter or marketing campaign, on average, one out of every six people who asked to be on your list won't get your mailing because a spam filter blocks it by mistake.

Now, learn how to solve the problem for your mailings. Designed specifically for marketers and email publishers who are not tech experts, MarketingSherpa's new How-to kit gives you the tools you need to get your message across trouble-free.

Includes workbook and audio CDs.

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