This One Habit Will Elevate Your Copywriting in 2024
Robyn-Lee Samuels
LinkedIn Ghostwriter & Coach ?? I help B2B founders & consultants attract regular leads on LinkedIn using content, comments, and strategic outreach.
Want to improve your writing?
It's simple.
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Writers improve by studying the works of other writers.
You need to see the words in print, read sentences strung together, analyze the writer's choices. ?
It's like high school English, only there are no deadlines and no one is grading you.
Learn from your favorite LinkedIn creators by reading their posts and dissecting them.
Ask these three questions:
Badly written novels and blog posts have things to teach you, too.
Believe it or not, I don't read lengthy captions. Length articles yes. It's just how I choose to consume content. It's as if I'm being attacked by a wall of text. If a hook intrigues me and I click more only to find a wall of text, I have to be really intrigued to continue reading.
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So, as a LinkedIn ghostwriter and content creator, I'm hyper aware of things that turn me off about content. As a result, I try to add spacing, bullet lists, and emojis to captions so that they aren't too overwhelming.
Reads to understand how the visual, post, the caption was created.?
While LinkedIn is still a text-heavy platform, posts with visuals outperform text-only posts. So, consider how it all works together: the image or video, the graphic text, the caption.
Look through your behavior and your analytics for patterns, and then repeat them in your next content cycle.
Read all sorts of things from everywhere.
Read graffiti on the subway, road signs, ads, captions. Jot down what works and what doesn't work.
Allow yourself to be inspired.
Writers have no paints, no colors, no fabrics. Writers have words and language. That's all we need, really.??
Which tip will you try out today?
Proofreader helping faith-based writers and clean fiction authors refine their work for publication, ensuring a clear and impactful message.
10 个月This really helps me look at my writing in a different way. I'll be paying attention to others' posts from now on and answering the questions you mentioned, such as what caught my eye first. It's helpful to step outside of your post and view it from an outsider's perspective.
I help businesses craft ideas into clear copy and content that converts.
10 个月Robyn-Lee Samuels it is interesting that you said to look at signs. I haven’t even thought about that.
Passionate Writer | Multi-Genre Author | Lifelong Learner
10 个月Very informative ??