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About this book
Writing good copy is no longer just about advertising or selling or direct mail. You need to develop a deep understanding of your customers and use your imagination to create and curate content that resonates with them. As marketing becomes more multi-platformed, more measurable and enabled by digital tools and regenerative-AI, marketing communications must be increasingly nuanced, responsive and with a distinct human touch. From paid social to press releases, from landing pages to white papers and from internal communications to engaging with customers, the sheer range of writing challenges can feel daunting. How can you keep it targeted? How can you keep it personal? How can you keep it conversational? The Complete Copywriter gives you all the tools you'll need to create exceptional marketing copy. This comprehensive guide covers every aspect of the copywriting craft, from creativity and planning, to revision and execution. Learn how to exercise your creativity, be refreshingly adaptable with your words, generate ideas, maintain reader attention, hone your empathy and bring words to life, so that you deliver copy that works every time.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE You and the copy
- 1 Being a writer
- 2 How copy works
- INTERLUDE 1 A very brief history of copy
- PART TWO Planning the copy
- 3 Profiling your reader
- 4 Finding your argument
- 5 Finding your voice
- 6 Writing headlines and subject lines
- INTERLUDE 2 Aristotle and the Three Musketeers
- PART THREE Shaping the copy
- 7 Structures for browsing
- 8 Storytelling and the uses of narrative
- 9 Building pyramids: Structures for searching
- INTERLUDE 3 Six patterns of influence
- PART FOUR Bringing your copy to life
- 10 Sentences: Putting your words in order
- 11 Doing and being: How verbs and nouns live together
- INTERLUDE 4 A pocket guide to punctuation
- PART FIVE Content planning
- 12 Creating a content strategy
- 13 Writing website copy
- 14 Email marketing
- 15 Producing an email newsletter
- 16 Writing a press release
- 17 Writing articles and blog posts
- INTERLUDE 5 What about AI?
- PART SIX Surviving and thriving
- 18 Survival skills for copywriters
- 19 The copywriter’s toolkit: Resources to support you
- Index