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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Roundup of posts on Copywriting tasks and careers



Many web copywriters are also talented in technical writing. Their talents can be used to craft product brochures that effectively describe advantages and features in complicated terms that a technically minded audience understands.

An informative product brochure can be a valuable client- generation tool, and can also boost rankings when crafted with SEO focused content. Reaching new clients with brochures is a talent within the reportoire of every skilled web copywriter.

Let’s check out today’s list of interesting posts on how a company’s product and service can be best promoted through the use of a skilled copywriter.

Corporate Jobs


While being an ad agency copywriter is filled with late nights, client meetings, brainstorming sessions, and fancy award shows, working as a staff writer for a corporation is a little more sedate.

As a staff writer in a company, you can expect to be an important part of the marketing, communications, or PR team. While the more glamorous projects usually get handled by the ad agencies, you'll be asked to write things that are equally interesting, such as brochures, Web pages, customer letters, press releases, e-mails, landing pages, articles, speeches, newsletters, and more.

Find out more: http://www.netplaces.com/writing-copy/getting-a-job-as-a-copywriter/corporate-jobs.htm

How to Write Effective Headlines - Copywriting Tips for Designers and Non-Writers


You can create curiosity by asking a provocative question or making a seemingly outrageous statement. Word play, alliteration, or take-offs on familiar phrases or cliches can create some eye-catching and often amusing headlines. However, avoid ambiguoity or at least use eyebrows, subheads, or decks (smaller headlines above or below the main headline) to clarify or explain. If your reader has to guess at what you mean or at what the article or ad is all about, they'll be saying, "I guess you don't want me to read this article." Some examples of word play, alliteration, and take-offs:

Read more: http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/techwriting/a/headlines.htm

Ingredients of Highly Successful Copy


Writing copy is a lot like making pancakes. You have to make sure you have all the right ingredients! If you miss the baking powder or oil, for example, your pancakes will be flat and tasteless. Copy-writing is similar. If you forget to bring the benefits to life or build belief, your copy just won't work. That's why it's important to mix all the right ingredients, in just the right proportions, to create a winning advertisement, brochure, Web page, flyer, or other persuasive piece.

Find out more: http://www.netplaces.com/writing-copy/ingredients-of-highly-successful-copy/

Climbing the Ladder


On the agency side, the career track for copywriters is fairly well defined. After a few years as a copywriter — or even just a few months if you're a fast-rising star — you can expect your pay to increase and your job title to change to something like senior copywriter. Eventually, you may become the copy chief managing a team of writers. If you're really ambitious, you might even climb to the top of the agency heap and become the creative director — a senior executive supervising an entire creative staff of writers, designers, art directors, producers, and production coordinators.

Read more: http://www.netplaces.com/writing-copy/getting-a-job-as-a-copywriter/climbing-the-ladder.htm



I will share with you more informative and helpful tips on great copywriting in the week's ahead.

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