The Copywriting Game – An Actual Game Entry

Yes, there is an actual Copy Writing Game being offered by Pete Walker in the Warrior Forum – Copywriting sub-forum.

The game rules…

Sell the audience on obscure products – in 250 words or less.

I’ll post up an image every now and then and you come up with the engaging and unique sales copy to sell this to market in 250 words or less.

Be as engaging or witty or clever with words as you like…

The first picture posted in the thread was this one:

By the time I got into the game, the picture had changed twice and the current working picture was this one:

This sounded fun, so I made my first entry to the game…

I even opened my entry with these very important words:

Don’t Get Mad…. This Is A Copy Writing Game For FUN!!!

To no avail… Some people are just humorless bastards… My entry was deleted from the forum when someone reported it… LOL

Lucky for you, I am going to share it here:

Are You Feeling The Pain Yet?

Obama Has Only Been President for 3 Years…
And He Is Getting Ready To Ask For Your Vote AGAIN!!!

Ask yourself this…

Are you better off financially today than you were 3 years ago?

Our candidate is a turkey, and he was touted as Ben Franklin’s idea of “the bird that Americans should have chosen” as our national bird…

If you don’t have a job and your unemployment insurance about to run out, and you are sitting in your soon-to-be-repossessed home trying to figure out how you will keep your family warm this coming winter, our candidate has a plan that is better than Obama’s plan…

We don’t really need to show you “our plan” for you to know that OUR PLAN IS BETTER!!!

If you pick our guy, you can choose America’s two favorite birds (our turkey and your middle finger) to send your message to those that occupy Washington D.C. today…

You only need to see Obama’s plan, and you will know which turkey to vote for in 2012…

Here is Obama’s plan for keeping your family warm this winter…
 

 

Keep the Beans Nearby

 

OR

Say NO to Obama!!!

Vote For Our Turkey
in November of 2012!!

 
Aren’t you glad I saved this for you? LOL

Until Next Time,

Bill Platt

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[ALERT] Breaking Story That Will Go Viral…

Video Source: How To Spread a Rumor | Communication | Howcast.com

Basic Needs:

• Juicy Story
• Testable credential
• Gullible person
• Repetition
• Fear-mongering (optional)

Steps:

1. Keep It Simple
2. Include a vivid detail that is easy to envision
3. Make sure story is difficult to disprove
4. Make it shocking but believable
5. Give one detail that can be proven, even if it may not prove the story, to give credibility to story
6. Tell people gullible enough to believe and who are quick to spread juicy rumors
7. Keep story alive by repeating often

Tips:

• Don’t be mean. Rumors can destroy people and companies, if used in a destructive manner.
• A rumor that preys on a specific fear is more likely to be passed on.

The actual video highlights how to do this for personal gain in the workplace. But there is value in the techniques for marketing purposes…

Everyone wants to be the author of the next Viral Video, Viral Picture or Viral Story… Because anything that goes viral has the potential to drive a lot of traffic to our websites….

Not all of us have the ability to create a funny video or enough good luck to create video that the world falls in love with…

So we must use the tools available to us — our gift for story telling.

One of the examples I found truly inspirational was the story about how Facebook was shutting down on March 15th, 2011…

Story here: Facebook Shutting Down Rumor Goes Viral: Site Said To Be Ending March 15, 2011 (UPDATE)

27,000 people shared that story on Facebook, and 2,000 people tweeted the story. The story originated on the satirical Weekly World News website.

The story got so much traction that CNN and ABC commented on it, and FaceBook management felt the need to respond, so they tweeted about it.

I had some success in December 2010 with a joke thread about Google’s Original Content Penalty that had the potential of going viral, but never did. The thread actually had some negative blow-back on me in fact, because it angered a lot of Warriors.

Some of those Warriors who were angered by that thread will never again believe me capable of offering anything valuable to the Warrior Forum or the online marketing community.

As I talk about the art of creating rumors, I am drawn again and again to the one point of fact shared in the above video:

This is a tool, that if used well, we can use to promote our websites online…

We want a world a traffic to our websites, but we must always be careful not to create negative blow-back when we attempt to ignite the fuse of rumors to promote our websites…

As frequently said in the 1970′s TV series, “Hill Street Blues“:

If you know of any other examples of viral rumors, please share them here…