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Engagement = the conversation.
Consistency = the commitment.
Influence = the compound interest on all three.
Skip a step and you stall.
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Big time voice note hater here.
Got one this morning that nearly finished me off.
(this turns into a Copy lesson, I’m not just venting)
It was 2 minutes long. It could just have been one sentence.
I can’t be the only one who feels a little spike of dread when that bar code shows up on WhatsApp.
Especially when it opens with the line these people ALWAYS open with…
“I’ll just send a voice note, it’s easier.”
Easier for who?
Because it sure wasn’t easier for me.
Now I’m holding my phone to my ear while this guy thinks out loud at me for 2 minutes straight.
I get everything I didn’t ask for: the “umms,” “wait, what was I saying,” long pauses, IRL distractions...
And when it finally ends, he sounds all satisfied, like he really told me something, while I’m still wondering what it is exactly he wanted to say in the first place.
And that is where this turns into a Copy lesson.
Because the voice note was easier FOR HIM, so he sent it and dumped the hard part on me.
He didn’t have to think.
I did.
He just talked.
I had to untangle what he meant.
And I know a lot of people do the same thing when they write Copy.
They write whatever is easiest to write.
They don’t trim it, they don’t sharpen it, they just sort of empty their brain onto the page and hit publish.
And every confusing sentence they leave in there does the same thing my voice note friend did…
It takes the work they couldn’t be bothered to do and dumps it on the reader.
Who, by the way, just wanted to understand something.
And now he’s got homework.
This is the one rule I care about more than any other rule in Copywriting.
I call it DNCT.
It stands for Do Not Confuse Them.
And it states that, whatever you write, your reader HAS TO get it instantly.
And he has to get it without stopping, without rereading, without thinking.
The second he has to work to get what you meant, you risk losing him.
Good Copy involves doing the opposite.
YOU take the tough part and you keep it on your plate, where it belongs.
YOU sort out your point before you write it.
YOU cut the words that were just you clearing your throat.
YOU call a cat a cat, not a “specimen of the feline species.”
YOU make it effortless to read, which is anything but effortless to pull off.
So before you hit send on anything, read it back and ask…
Did I make this easy for me, or easy for him?