<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30871266</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:00:01.352-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Writing for Sales</title><subtitle type='html'>The Writing for Sales blog is about improving business writing and helping to explain the relationship between excellent writing and successful marketing.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingforsales.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30871266/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingforsales.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>johnrags</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05300814747817236487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://www.writingforsales.com/images/me-phoebe.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30871266.post-115245557255103755</id><published>2006-07-09T10:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-07-09T19:47:54.700-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Why is Business Writing Important?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Let's face it business has one purpose - To Sell. If you cannot sell you are out of business. What we have here is "A Failure to Communicate". Companies that cannot sell are not getting their message across. They simply cannot find the words that help their prospects understand why they should buy the company's products or services instead of those of a competitor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While content is king in the world of web sites. Sales copy is king in the world of selling. People buy emotionally. Sales copy must tie into people's emotions. Once a business writer understands this simple concept the rest is easy. Tie the benefits of your products and services to one of the many emotions stirring within your prospect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30871266-115245557255103755?l=writingforsales.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingforsales.blogspot.com/feeds/115245557255103755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=30871266&amp;postID=115245557255103755&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30871266/posts/default/115245557255103755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/30871266/posts/default/115245557255103755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingforsales.blogspot.com/2006/07/why-is-business-writing-important.html' title='Why is Business Writing Important?'/><author><name>johnrags</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05300814747817236487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://www.writingforsales.com/images/me-phoebe.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
