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When creating our ad copy content and overall message, we need to understand something that causes a lot of problems with marketers: The message we portray and the content that follows must both have a strong persuasive element throughout the entire body of the message.

Online marketers that have a great product or service have many times failed because they have a strong message and opening in their ad copy, but the following content of the ad copy is weaker. Without knowing why, the offering doesn't do real well for the marketer.

This is one of the reasons that longer ad copy works better than short copy on the Internet. Yet, long copy still must be presented strongly and persuasively for it to do it job and bring the desired results. Weak long ad copy won't do any better only because it's long.

On the other hand I've known of some online marketers that put up 5 pages of ad copy for one product and sell it like crazy because it's strong and flows; helping the customer to make a decision that they really want to make.

If you have a quality offering but weak ad copy, it creates within the consumer a conflict that they probably don't even understand is happening. Still, when there is conflict within, there will almost never be a sale from the copy.

We have to be sure that not only our products or services are something that is wanted and needed, but once we understand that, the most important thing we must do is to ensure that our opening statement in the copy and the following content are long enough and persuasive enough to get the job done.

The content of our ad copy needs to remain consistent with how we open up the process and message. Do that and response rates will increase tremendously.