This is one of my articles on Medium.com

The Startup’s Guide to Building Trust Through Copywriting

Here's the truth: you can have the most innovative, stunning, brilliant idea of all ages, but if you don't communicate it in the right way, it will be submerged by tons of other ideas, products, services.

Here's another truth: you don't think your business needs a copywriter. You have all the domain knowledge, high-skilled developers and a quite broad network of people that can promote your business.

Third truth: maybe you don't know how to properly build an authority through words on your website. Moreover, you don't have time to do it.

And it's here that the copywriter takes the scene.

1. Simplify Complex Concepts

To build trust and expand the audience, the copywriter can break down complex concepts into digestible, understandable content. A non-expert audience is easily annoyed by what it doesn't understand. Educating your audience not only makes your technology more approachable, but also establishes itself through transparency and understanding.

2. Use Personalization to Speak Directly to Customer Needs

A non-expert audience can find more difficulties than you thought about. To build authority, in your copy, directly mention the specific needs and concerns of your audience. Personalization demonstrates that you understand and care about solving the audience's unique challenges. This understanding of the needs encourages trust and engagement by showing that you operate with your audience's needs in mind.

3. Attract Investments

As you surely know, AI and tech startups often require substantial investment to fuel research, development and scaling. Persuasive writing can put forth compelling stories on the potential impact, innovation, and financial return of a technology to gain the attention of venture capitalists, angel investors, or grant committees. A compelling narrative can make the difference between securing necessary funding and being overlooked.

4. Converting Prospects into Customers

Personalized or persuasive copywriting would guide the process of taking prospects via sales funnel, email marketing, ads, etc, just highlighting the unique benefits, serving potential problems, or specific needs that may arise. By emphasizing how a product or service stands out in the market, businesses can increase their conversion rates.

5. Enhancing User Engagement and Retention

Persuasive writing can convince the user to try the product or service, but also makes them get in touch with the business and come back to it again. If a company develops newsletters, posts on blogs, and content on social media that expresses the interests and challenges of the reader, they will create a community of users loyal to them, which with time can result in customer retention.

The presentation of the new AI or tech product might be quite challenging, especially when it concerns complex or unfamiliar technologies. Articulation of how the technology makes them faster, more productive, or improves their quality of life is important for the scaling up of diffusion of such technologies.

6. Provide Value

Your content should not always be about making a sale. Offer valuable information, advice, and insights that can help your audience, even if they're not ready to buy. Educational blog posts, how-to guides, and industry analysis demonstrate your expertise and establish your business as a trustworthy source of information.

7. Show Authenthicity

Authenticity breeds trust and authority. Storytelling, in this case, is a high value skill and way to inform and engage the audience. Your business' voice should reflect your genuine values and mission. Sharing your story, the highs and the lows, will let your audience see the human side of your business, making it easier for them to connect and trust you.

8. Driving Policy and Industry Standards

For AI and tech companies intending to influence policy or set new standards in the industry, persuasive writing will form a core strategy. It includes position papers, whitepapers and open letters, to enter into a broad conversation that is taking place within the industry and making decisions about the shape of policy.

So, did I change your perspective?

Copywriting is not just about selling a product or service or writing blog posts about it; it's about crafting a narrative that resonates with various stakeholders, from customers to investors to policymakers. By effectively leveraging the power of words, these businesses can navigate the complex tech landscape, establishing themselves as leaders and innovators in their field.