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9 Creative Ways to Write About Your Products
Don’t let the way you write about your products descend into a mediocre jargon-fest — put some life and soul into your writing by getting creative.
Unleash your inner word artist and write about your products like Shakespeare wrote about his lovers. Dance, play, evoke, tease — use everything within your powers to get customers genuinely excited about what you’re selling.
A blah product description will leave customers unimpressed, and a badly formulated press release will burn bridges with journalists. Here are 9 creative ways you can spice up your product descriptions or blog posts — banish boring boilerplate copy and start writing like you’ve actually got something to say.
8 Sneaky Ways to Read More
I love to read. Whether it’s high literature or illiterate garble, I gobble up words like they’re candy.
I love to read dense 19th-century novels at a leisurely pace, political magazines while I make food, the inflight magazine on the plane, a great online article on my phone, or even just the ingredients on my bag of chips (not recommended).
The first time I found myself in a university literature department, I was overwhelmed with joy to be surrounded by like-minded souls who shared my total love of words. “Yes, I used to read my dad’s newspaper and the shampoo bottle in the shower as a kid, too,” said one of my newfound friends. I had found my tribe!
You Are Not What You Wrote Once — How to Write Online With Confidence
My alter ego would definitely be a detective.
Blame my childhood addiction to Encyclopedia Brown and Mary-Kate and Ashley whodunits, or my fervent viewing of Harriet the Spy and Inspector Gadget shows. (Not to mention my Nancy Drew computer game hobby. I one hundred percent definitely do not still play on junior detective mode.)
Something about sleuthing around with a notepad watching people spoke to my quiet-yet-irreverent self (in college, I would become a journalism major, and leave the crime-solving to the people with real badges).
So as a young lass of 13, with nothing but time on my hands after school and the luxury of parent-paid cable TV, naturally I became obsessed with the MTV show Room Raiders.
Let me explain.
Mindfulness for Creatives and Entrepreneurs: Practices for Writing Stronger Content
Writing and creating new content for your website is fun when you’re just getting started, but once you’ve developed a habit, it all might start to feel a bit robotic.
Wake up, write, publish, go to sleep. Wake up, and do it all over again.
Or, if you’re not feeling like a robot, you may find yourself getting overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content there is to create.
Perhaps you run a blog or website that’s all about tips for traveling around the world and visiting tourist destinations. Well, there are 196 countries in the world today, so you’re going to be busy writing articles for a while.