The power of words: Why copywriting is a vital, but often overlooked, part of the marketing strategy

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“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity” Yehuda Berg

The words you choose are vital. They have the power to make or break a campaign but can often be overlooked when putting together marketing strategies.

A large part of branding is the language. A brand identity needs to be consistent across entire strategy, it’s not all about the logo and visual appeal of things! The words you choose need to tell a story and build a relationship with your audience to create trust and ultimately get them to invest in your brand. Because of this, words therefore need to convey the right tone and that can often pose a challenge between corporate identity and relatable to the customer.

Establish key messages 

The best way to get around this is firstly to establish your key messages. This will ensure you get across exactly what you want to convey about your company and brand.

Think about what is important to your brand – what story do you want to be telling? What do you want the audience to think or feel after encountering your comms? We love some of the brand examples in this article!

Consider audience

Then you have to make sure your messages fit with the audience. Think about who your audience and key customers are, persona profiling tools can be handy for this so you can picture the people you are communicating with. Create a tone of voice that suits them and speak to them in their language. Don’t patronise, bamboozle or oversell – talk to them like real people!

honest communications offers a unique brand voice workshop to help brands find their tone of voice

Convey personality 

In addition to that you’ll also want to convey your company values and brand personality. There’s a lot of to get across so make sure you don’t waffle! If you don’t grab attention and have impact in seconds, they’ll move on, particularly on social media where shortened attention spans thrive and the market is saturated. You’ll be competing with a lot of other message so make yours count!

How we can help you

At Honest, we are perfectionists and we love language. So, we’ll nit-pick ‘til the cows come home and ensure that every single word we write, every article we produce and every piece of content we create, is absolutely spot on. Our content creation and copywriting services can help bring your brand story to life, whether it’s a blog, marketing materials, a case study, new website copy, or anything in between. Our specialist copywriting is available on an ongoing basis or as a one-off project – whatever you need to help get the right words across! 

Get in touch!

If you’re looking for home and garden content creation specialists, look no further. Find out how we can help make your copy count and harness the power of words by getting in touch!