Chap 10

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CHAPTER 10
CREATIVE WRITING (HOW TO SELL A
PRODUCT, AND HOW TO MAKE A CAPTION)
A. CAPAIAN PEMBELAJARAN
1. Mahasiswa mampu mempraktikan creative
writing.
2. Mahasiswa mampu mempraktikan creative
writing dalam rangka memasarkan produk
melalui tulisan kreatif di caption media
sosial.
B. CONTENT
In today’s digital age, social media has
become an essential platform for businesses to
promote their products and services. It offers
unique opportunities for brands to reach a wide
audience, build relationships with consumers,
and drive sales in a highly interactive and
engaging environment. Here’s an in-depth look
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at the key roles social media plays in product
promotion:
1. Reaching a targetted audience
One of the primary advantages of social
media for product promotion is its ability to
reach highly specific audiences. Social media
platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok
allow businesses to target potential customers
based on demographics, interests, location,
and behaviors. This level of precision ensures
that marketing efforts are directed toward
users who are more likely to be interested in
the product, leading to better conversion rates
and a higher return on investment. For
example A skin care brand can target users
who follow beauty influencers, engage with
beauty content, or express interest in healthy
and beauty lifestyles, ensuring the brand’s
products reach people most likely to purchase
them.
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2. Building brand awareness

Social media helps businesses increase
their visibility and reach beyond traditional
marketing methods. By consistently posting
engaging content, such as product photos,
videos where companies can build brand
recognition. Over time, this familiarity can
create a sense of trust and reliability, which
are crucial factors in consumer decision-
making, beside, companies can also create
some viral contents and campaigns to grab
market attention. For example, a beauty brand
might use Instagram to showcase makeup
tutorials, featuring their products in real-life
scenarios, helping followers become more
aware of the brand and its offerings.
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3. Engaging with customer
Social media platforms enable two-way
communication, allowing brands to engage with
their customers directly. This interaction can
take many forms, including responding to
comments, answering questions in real time
using live feature. Engagement helps humanize
the brand, fostering loyalty and building
relationships with customers. For example
skincare company might engage with followers
on Twitter by asking for their skin problems and
answering how to overcome it with the company
product soft offering. It also can fostering a
sense of community and encouraging user
participation, which can help the company to
gather feedbacks and using them to research
the market, to help building communication
strategies, and even evaluate the
communication programs.
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4. Influencer Marketing
Influencer marketing (Key Opinion Leader
marketing) has emerged as a powerful strategy
in social media product promotion. Influencers,
who have built a large and loyal following, can
endorse products, providing authentic
recommendations that resonate with their
audience. This kind of word-of-mouth marketing
is highly effective because consumers tend to
trust the opinions of people they follow more
than direct advertising from brands. For
example, beauty brand might collaborate with a
popular beauty vlogger to showcase how the
vlogger creates many different makeup looks
using the brand’s products, driving followers to
explore the brand themselves.
5. As social marketing that support e-

commerce
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Social media can help humanize the brand
with social approach and it can also support the
company e-commerce sites, leading to
increased sales. Features like “Shop Now”
buttons, swipe-up links on Instagram Stories,
and product tags make it easy for users to
learn about products and make purchases
without leaving the platform. Social media
advertising campaigns can further amplify this
effect by targeting users who are more likely to
convert into customers. For example, a beauty
company can use Instagram to target users
interested in beauty products, leading them
directly to the product page where they can
learn more and make a purchase.
Now, that we understand the social media roles
in product promotion, we can say that it is
important to use social media as a tool to promote
our products. In promoting our products, we need
to understand how to deliver the messages well by
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using story telling concept in creating photos,
videos, and captions. In this meeting, we are going
to learn how to create good captions for promoting
particular products on social media such as
Instagram and Facebook.
Here are some elements that can help us to
build a good captions in order to sell a product on
social media:
1. Creating interesting hook:
Creating captions with a powerful hook that
grabs the reader's attention immediately can
include a provocative question, a bold
statement, or intriguing fact about the product.
Here are some examples of interesting hook.
a. Have you experienced this kind of skin
problem? It called white comedo, this
kind of comedo is ... (in an Instagram
photo that shows a skin problem).
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b. Using 10% of Niacinamide, this product
can make your skin glow just in one
month of regular use.
2. Brevity and Clarity
The importance of being concise while
communicating the core message. Techniques
for reducing clutter in writing while still
delivering a strong and clear message. Do not
forget to apply persuation technique in the
caption. Analyzing how Aristotle's three modes
of persuasions, such as ethos (credibility),
pathos (emotion), and logos (logic) can be
applied to social media captions. Creating a
good caption does not mean you need to write
it extensively, you can use micro-storytelling
techniques to evoke emotional responses. For
example, crafting captions that tell a short story
about how a product can improve the user's
life.
3. Adjust tone and styles
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Adjust the tone and styles based on the
characteristics of the product and where the
content published. For example, if we sell a
beauty brand that targets teen consumers, we
need to adjust the tone to more casual and
conversational, perhaps with some slank
included.
Girls, it’s time to say goodbye to your acne

while brightening your skin!
Yup, Annisa Skin Care’s Face Wash is

formulated with tea tree oil and
niacinamide can shoo away your acne and
make your beautiful skin brighter!
#AnnisaSkinCare #FaceWash
4. Calls to action
We can craft a compelling call to action, to
urge the audience to take the desired action for
example, "Shop now," "Swipe up," "Learn
more".
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Acne no more with Annisa Skin Care’s

Face Wash!
Swipe up to learn more!
5. Hashtags and Emojis

Last but not least, we can use hashtag and
emojis to grab reader’s attention, increase
visibility and engagement.
1. overly scripted, print out a card with your
name on it or your own logo, this is also use
to build your brand.
B. CONCLUSION
Social media has become a fundamental tool
for promoting products in today's digital age,
offering businesses unique opportunities to target
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specific audiences, build brand awareness, and
engage with customers. Through platforms like
Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, companies
can precisely tailor their marketing efforts to
demographics, behaviors, and interests, ensuring
that their message reaches those most likely to
make a purchase. Additionally, social media
allows for the creation of brand loyalty and
community engagement by fostering direct, two-
way communication with customers.
To create successful product promotions on
social media, businesses must master storytelling
in their content—whether through captivating
photos, videos, or concise, engaging captions.
Key elements for creating effective captions
include an attention-grabbing hook, clarity and
brevity in the message, an appropriate tone for
the audience, compelling calls to action, and the
strategic use of hashtags and emojis.
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By understanding and utilizing these
strategies, businesses can leverage social media
to not only increase their visibility but also drive
sales and build stronger, long-lasting
relationships with their customers.
C. EXERCISE
1. Create a good caption that tells a story
about one products using micro-
storytelling technique, hashtag, and
emojis, and call to action.
D. REFERENCES
1. Kotler, Philip, and Gary Armstrong.
(2018). Principles of Marketing. Harlow:
Pearson Education.
2. Tuten, Tracy L., and Michael R. Solomon.
(2017). Social Media Marketing. New
Delhi: Sage Publications.

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2. Building brand awareness

5. As social marketing that support e-

Girls, it’s time to say goodbye to your acne

Yup, Annisa Skin Care’s Face Wash is

Acne no more with Annisa Skin Care’s

Swipe up to learn more!

5. Hashtags and Emojis

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