Marketing Technology: Your Copy Is Your Resume to the World
Think back to the worst resume you ever read: It never mentioned the skills you specifically asked for, overflowed with vague adjectives (proactive, dynamic, results-focused), and fired off so many acronyms and twelve-syllable words you needed an interpreter to get past the first sentence. If you want your customers to read and act upon your marketing copy, think about that world’s worst resume and instead:
Condense the life story. Like a resume, your marketing copy is an introduction, not the entire story. You want customers to call your company for more information.
Give your customers what they want. Your customers expect specific benefits from your technology, just like you expect specific skills and achievements in a job applicant. Yes, customers are interested in product features and what else your company can do, but most of all they want to know that your technology solves their immediate problem.
Write like you talk. Any recruiter would reject the resume of someone who described editing surveys as “elucidating opinion-evaluation processes.” Yet technology companies regularly obscure what they do and deliver by using complex language. Your technical achievements are strong enough; you don’t need to burden them with 5-syllable words and 40-word sentences.
First be clear, then be brief. We all know that readers have limited time. But if you pack too many acronyms, drop too many articles (the, an, a), and cover too much information in one sentence or paragraph, you’ll lose your customers.
Show them the next step. On every good resume, … READ MORE ...