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Millions of dollars are spent annually on creating and sending brochures
and cover letters. Most of these dollars are wasted, because these
marketing materials don't do what they're supposed to do: get a prospect to
act, either by requesting further information, picking up the phone and
making an appointment, or actually buying something. These are the sole
purposes of marketing documents.
If the brochure and cover letter you create don't do one of these three
things, they have failed. Completely. Which brings us to the first rule of
this game: the brochure and cover letter you produce must have a purpose.
And since the only real purpose of any marketing document is motivating
immediate prospect action, the purpose of what you create can only be one
of the three things above.
Your brochure and cover letter exist either to:
. get the prospect to request more information;
. call up and arrange an appointment, or
. buy something, by either filling in an order coupon, or walking into your
establishment.
Prominently post the purpose you have selected before you write your
brochure and cover letter. Everything you put into this brochure, this
cover letter must work towards achieving this single objective. Nothing
else must be allowed in.
The truth is, when most marketers create their brochures and cover letter
they get off the track. They forget what they're doing... and why. Don't be
one of them. There's a very easy trick to seeing if your brochure and cover
letter are correct: after you write each sentence, ask yourself if it's
helping achieve your overriding objective. If it isn't, it's wrong. And
that's a fact.
Focus On The Prospect, Not Yourself
Everybody supposedly knows that all marketing documents ought to be about
your prospect, not about you. Sadly, the vast majority of brochures and
cover letters fail to achieve this objective. Take a brochure I received in
today's mail: on the mailing panel it simply says, "Instrument Calibration
and Repair. Calibration: Standardizing a measuring instrument." That's it.
Now, I ask you: are these words about the sender, or about the recipient?
It's obvious, isn't it! Lines that are about the marketer rightly elicit
this response: "So what!" "Instrument Calibration and Repair". So what!
What does this have to do with me, your prospect?
Lines that are about the prospect, the most important person in every
brochure and cover letter, get this response: "Aha!" The prospect is
interested in knowing one thing and one thing only about you: "What can you
do for me?" And when that question is answered, he's interested in these
questions: "When can you do it?" And "How much will it cost me"?
When you're writing a brochure, do this simple test. Read each sentence and
ask yourself if it's about you or your prospect. If it's about you the
sentence will feel incomplete, because it won't have the persuasive
information the prospect wants. No wonder! Your prospect is saying, "So
what?" to it. But if the sentence is focused on your prospect, offers him
honest, believable benefits, and motivates him to take immediate action,
it's finished.
Doing Your Homework
The big reason most people's brochures and cover letters fail is because
their creators don't do any homework before writing them. Most people hate
writing; their objective is to get it out of the way as quickly as
possible, right or wrong. But not your savvy marketer! He may hate writing
as much as the next person, but he never loses sight of his objective: that
each marketing piece will either make him a profit, or be a dead loss. And
that if he's to achieve the former, he needs to get other people, his
prospects, to act... NOW! Homework helps achieve his objective.
What You Have To Know Before You Write
The first thing you've got to know before you can successfully create any
brochure or cover letter is who you're talking to. The best marketing
documents, even if millions are sent out, are conversations between two
people... you and just one prospect. You have to know who this prospect is
and have to understand what he wants, when he wants it, why he might not
take action to acquire it, and how much he can afford to pay for it. All
these points must be dealt with in your marketing materials.
Without a doubt, one of the greatest single reasons why marketing
communications fail to get people to take action is because those people
don't feel that what they're being asked to consider has anything to do
with them... it doesn't speak to them about what's important to them and,
therefore, doesn't motivate them to take immediate action. In marketing,
this is disastrous.
Hint: don't create brochures and cover letters for a mass. Create them for
a single perso ...
Author: Dr. Jeffrey Lant
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