Sales letters and public relations letters
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales letters | messages designed to sell specific products or services. The letter must sell an idea, a point of view, a proposal, or a recommendation.
🗑
|
||||
| Public relations letters (PR) | do not directly or obviously promote a product or service, or request an order or stress an action. Designed to create goodwill. Specific purpose is to present the compan y in the most favorable way.
🗑
|
||||
| Planning a sales letter | 1)Determine your market/reader 2)Set your goal. What do you want the readers to do? 3)Why would people want your product? 4)Organize the facts into a good plan
🗑
|
||||
| 4 possible purposes of a sales letter | 1)get new customers 2)make your product interesting to get people to buy them 3)get customer to visit the business 4)get them to try the product or ask questions about it
🗑
|
||||
| Buying point | explain the appeal
🗑
|
||||
| People spend their $ for these reasons | for comfort, to make $, to save $, to imitate others, to be unique, for health, for enjoyment, for cleanliness, to avoid effort, to safeguard possessions, to satisfy appetite, to be attractive
🗑
|
||||
| the ABCDs of sales letters | A = attracting attention, B = building interest and desire, C = convincing the reader, D = directing favorable action
🗑
|
||||
| The devices for attractive letters | tinted stationery, unusual/clever, letterhead, colored type print, a gimmick, all-capital letters for certain words/sentences, underscore or boldface or italics for key words/phrase, dashes or exclamation points, graphics
🗑
|
||||
| The very first sentence should | excite curiosity, start a train of thought, attract the reader's attention/get them hook
🗑
|
||||
| pertinent questions | questions that should not be phrase so that they can be answer with a yes or no
🗑
|
||||
| The opening sentence may be either (blank) or (blank) | questions or statements
🗑
|
||||
| To spur the reader to action, you might: | 1)enclose a return envelope or postcard 2) imply "act now before it is too late" 3)offer special inducements for prompt action 4)briefly repeat the advantages to the reader 5)mention that many others have taken advantage of the offer
🗑
|
||||
| The "thought" of public relations letters | they are written with an eye to the future, with the thought that if you treat your customers well today, they will perhaps buy fromyou tomorrow
🗑
|
||||
| The purpose of public relations letters | 1)express appreciation to customers for their business 2) to capitalize on some special occasion like the holiday/birthda/anniversary/new productetc 3)offer service to the customer 4)to show concern for the customers and people everywhere
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Tiffastic
Popular Miscellaneous sets