Copywriting Masterclass
Learn advanced copywriting techniques that engage and sell. Improve your copy with insights into how people read and what motivates them to act. You'll leave with practical tips and knowledge that will enable you to apply your writing skills, whatever the context.
You will learn to:
- Understand the science of how people read copy and use it to your advantage
- Define and articulate the real value in a sales proposition
- Use both emotional and rational drivers to compel and persuade
- Structure, write and adapt your copy to suit all primary marketing media
- Ensure design, graphics, images and typography work with your copy, not against it
Details
- Level
- Advanced
- Duration
- 1 day (7 CPD hours)
- Rating
Course Information
Programme
The science behind how people read and react to your copy
- Why 90% of your direct marketing output hits the bin within five seconds
- How to use eye-track management and fixing points to boost results
- Using universal interests to gain reader attention
- Applying emotional drivers to motivate more people to respond and buy
- How to define and articulate the real value in a proposition
- Practical exercise: Developing customer-centric value propositions
The power of persuasion and the importance of structure
- Understanding the reasoning techniques that work best in direct marketing
- How best to organise your key messages and structure your copy
- The proven formula that adds up to a sale
- Why headlines are so important in direct and digital marketing
- The top headline types explored in the order of their impact and effectiveness
Copywriting best practice: practical tips and advice
- How to achieve personalisation with very little customer knowledge
- The importance of adopting the right tone and language
- Long copy or short copy: what works best, when and why?
- Using “Power” words and avoiding “Spoiler” words
- Valuable tips that boost response and results
- Recipes for disaster and how to avoid them all
How to adapt your copy to work in every key channel and application
- Writing for sales letters, direct marketing and emails
- Social media: getting your attitudinal approach and structure right
- How to create subject lines that get more of your emails opened and read
- Brochures and flyers: creating the right narrative flow for the way people read
- Understanding the power of sub-heads, images, captions and screamers
- Digital copy: the vital difference between online and offline copy
- How to plan and write copy that works on the web
- Templates for reviewing your own and other people’s copy
- Practical group session: real-life copy examples reviewed
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for you if you are required to write effective, focused copy to communicate, inform and sell products or services.
Previous delegates include:
- Marketing Manager (Gladstone)
- Direct Marketing Executive (Concern Worldwide)
- Copywriter (Ice Blue Marketing and Design)
- Marketing Assistant (Pitney Bowes International)
Enrol onto ‘Copywriting Masterclass’ course and receive the ‘DMA Copywriting Guide’. The guide has been devised by numerous marketing industry experts. It will help you understand how to do one-to-one marketing the right way.
Tutor
Paul Chuter F IDM, Managing Director, Lindum Associates
Paul Chuter F IDM is one of the UK’s leading sales and marketing communications practitioners.
Since 1990, Paul has provided consultancy, copywriting and training services to major international business enterprises, leading not-for-profit organisations, government agencies, professional bodies and academic institutions.
Paul has trained staff from more than 350 commercial enterprises and 250 charity sector organisations in effective copywriting skills. His training combines attitudinal approaches, practical techniques and best-practice methodologies that can be applied immediately in the workplace to achieve impressive results.
Venue
London (W1W 8SS)
Testimonials
I arrived knowing very little, if anything about copywriting. I can now leave with a much clearer understanding of copywriting thanks to Paul
Rachel Allen
Marketing Assistant, International Craft and Hobby Fair Ltd
This is a very useful course for any marketer. I am leaving feeling more confident and knowledgeable with lots of practical tips I can apply to my work
Claire Sankey
Marketing Executive, Unite Students
Paul was a fantastic teacher. I have learnt so much today I'm thrilled with the new knowledge I am leaving with. Thank you IDM! I would highly recommend this course
Danielle Matty
Retail Marketing Executive, HTC
This course was excellent. I now feel much more confident to go back to the office and write effective copy. And I also feel able to critique my team's copy in a structured and scientific way! Amazing tools!
The copywriting masterclass was a comprehensive overview of good writing best practices. Even having read a good amount of marketing books, this class provided new and useful information with practical tips and examples. Taught by a true expert. This class will improve your copywriting.
Ben Gallarda,
Aptus Health
I found the course extremely informative. It was also very engaging and interactive. There were lots of opportunities where you could ask questions, which was helpful. The course was well organised and the staff were all very helpful and friendly.
Natasha Carey,
Data Guidance