IDM Award in Digital Copywriting | Marketing Qualification
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During your Qualification in Digital Copywriting, you will learn to:

  • Understand how your audience read and interact with digital content compared to print media
  • Create social media copy that fits into your company's digital marketing strategy
  • Develop outstanding web and email copywriting techniques, learning how to create effective SEO copy
  • Create compelling blog posts and social media messaging for B2C and B2B
  • Respond to comments and feedback across digital channels using clever copywriting
  • Effectively measure your digital content success

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Details

Level
4
Duration
2 days (35 CPD hours)

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Course availability

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15/05/24 Intensive Virtual classroom £1,030.00 £1,200.00 - More info
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14 May 24
Study Periods
  • 15 - 16 May 2024
01/08/24 Intensive Virtual classroom £1,030.00 £1,200.00 - More info
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31 Jul 24
Study Periods
  • 1 - 2 August 2024
13/11/24 Intensive Virtual classroom £1,030.00 £1,200.00 - More info
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12 Nov 24
Study Periods
  • 13 - 14 November 2024
11/02/25 Intensive Virtual classroom £1,030.00 £1,200.00 - More info
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10 Feb 25
Study Periods
  • 11 - 12 February 2025

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Qualification Information

This qualification is made up of 15 modules. You will also be required to complete one assessment.


Module 1: Introduction to Copywriting for Digital Channels

Learning objective: Understand how your audience read and interact with digital content.

  • How do readers 'see' digital content?
  • The 'skim' factor - skimmers and scanners vs. longer readers
  • Web usability research and what it means for effective writing
  • Mobile - where your customers and audience are today most likely read your copy

Module 2: Breaking Down the Brief

Learning objective: How marketing messages can be more effective with the right digital copy.

  • Getting into a digital mind-frame
  • Understanding the importance of keywords and phrases used in copy
  • How to sell digital copy
  • How to make the most of each medium - websites, emails, ads
  • Reviewing what will work and where
  • Creating a checklist for effective web copywriting

Module 3: Expanding the Content for Web Pages

Learning objective: Writing effectively for both your audience and search engines.

  • How SEO copywriting affects digital content - where else will your headlines appear?
  • Which words are the most important on a web page? And why?
  • Understanding 'call to actions' the digital way

Module 4: Writing for Emails

Learning objective: Making emails and email marketing campaigns work harder.

  • Identifying why your audience would read - or ignore - your email
  • Getting the subject line right
  • How to avoid getting sent straight to spam
  • What are the golden rules and cardinal sins?
  • What to test and why

Module 5: Editing and Repurposing Content for Digital Channels

Learning objective: How to effectively edit existing content to make it work across all digital channels.

  • Key points to consider when repurposing or editing content
  • Identifying when digital content should be considered
  • Quick wins available with little effort: digital copywriting tricks
  • When copy alone is not enough... Making sure enhanced content is working just as hard for you
  • Identifying key editing do's and don'ts
  • How to start incorporating the day's principles within other digital copy opportunities

Module 6: Copywriting for social media

Learning objective: An overview of social media and blogs, their importance and the impact they have.

  • Identifying where blogging and social media sit in the marketer's arsenal
  • Discovering how they affect SEO
  • Exploring why they need to be written in a different way to websites and print copy

Module 7: Blogging: What Makes a Great Blog?

Learning objective: How to create a blog and take the conversation further.

  • Understand what a blog is - dialogue, not a conversation
  • Identifying the top 5 content rules for a great blog as well as the top 5 cardinal sins for a great blog
  • Where to find and promote blogs, and reviewing existing blog examples

Module 8: Taking the Blog Further

Learning objective: To delve deeper into social opportunities using blogs.

  • Identifying opportunities through links/blog-rolls/tag clouds etc.
  • How to stimulate and deal with comments

Module 9: Social Media - think Strategically, not Tactically

Learning objective: Considerations when writing copy for key platforms and how to think strategically.

  • Reviewing what you want to achieve
  • Recapping the potential benefits
  • Identifying where your audience are, what they are doing and what they expect
  • Ways to measure success

Module 10: The Key Players: Facebook, Twitter and more

Learning objective: Identifying where they fit in with your social media strategy and how they can help boost your digital success.

  • How they can work for you and what they each offer
  • Recognising what their users expect
  • Identifying the key competitors
  • Understanding what you need to think of from a writing point of view

Module 11: Using Social Media for Search

Learning objective: Understanding the importance of your words and what people search for.

  • Knowing how copy really works
  • The importance of your words and phrases when other people are searching
  • How to make the most of the #tag/RT/lists

Module 12: Getting the Tone Right

Learning objective: Understanding the key points to consider when writing copy for social media.

  • Identifying the top 5 things to consider

Module 13: Dealing with Comments and Feedback

Learning objective: Deploy the necessary skills to stimulate and deal with comments and feedback across all digital channels.

  • Commenting and dealing with comments
  • How to adopt the right tone, phrasing and reaction

Module 14: Digital Copy Techniques Refresher

Learning objective: Recap of the techniques covered so far.

  • Overview of top 10 things to remember when writing and editing digital content for web, email, blogs and social media including keywords, SEO, captions, subject lines, eye-catching copy, user journeys, strategic techniques, engaging copy, stronger calls to action and using enhanced media to support your copy.

Module 15: Building Successful Personas (including exercise)

Learning objective: Understanding your audience to adapt your copy.

  • Using personas to better target your digital copy
  • How to create personas, why they are so important, using personas to adapt your copy for different mediums and devices

Virtual Classroom - Intensive

2 day face-to-face instructor-led sessions via Zoom.

You can enrol directly via the IDM website. If you would like to discuss your enrolment or have any questions please call us on 020 8614 0277.


Exams and assessments

In order to attain the Award in Digital Copywriting and use the honorifics Award DC you must successfully pass 1 assessment. You will have 3 weeks to complete the assessment.

Tim Tucker F IDM, 23 Digital

Tim Tucker is an independent digital content marketing strategist and copywriting specialist. He is a digital consultant for the Content Marketing Association, for which he plans and hosts regular monthly digital breakfast events in London.
Tim has worked across a diverse range of digital environments, from B2C and B2B companies, to charities and government organisations, including the the National Trust, Nationwide Building Society, Nokia and the UK Government's Cabinet Office. Prior to going independent Tim worked for 17 years in magazine publishing, at Future Publishing and Immediate Media.
He now provides training and consultancy to some of the UK's leading publishing and media organisations, including Time Inc, Harper Collins, Hachette UK, The Telegraph Media Group, News International, Reed Business Information, Egmont UK and BBC Magazines.

London (W1W 8SS)

The course was very interactive and Tim was a great tutor. He was humorous which kept us engaged. I really enjoyed hearing examples of good practice from his own personal work as well as others in the industry. He shared a lot of great resources for us to use in our daily careers and I really feel I can now take my copy to the next level. Thanks Tim and IDM!

Abby Corrigan Award DC,
Texthelp

The Award is a really comprehensive course ideal for all level of copywriters. It equips students with the skills to create successful digital campaigns - you've just got to get out there and start applying what you have learnt. I feel much more confident now and would definitely recommend it.

Victoria Lovegrove Award DC,
Online Editor, Marketing Service RNLI

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