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The Features-Advantages-Benefits Analysis for Copywriters: Why It is FAB!

The FAB analysis formula is widely utilised in copywriting circles for obvious reasons. Focusing on the product and your target market enables you to educate both your audience and yourself. Product knowledge and user research are essential to this formula’s maximum impact. Correctly applied, the Features-Advantages-Benefits analysis for copywriters is FAB, and not only in … Read more The Features-Advantages-Benefits Analysis for Copywriters: Why It is FAB!

The Four C’s Formula: Creating Clear, Concise, Compelling and Credible Copy

Bob Bly first presented The Secret of the Four C’s formula in his 2013 book, The Business-to-Business Marketing Handbook. As such, it is one of the newer copywriting formulas but it has made quite an impact in the industry in this short space of time. The Four C’s formula only works well with the proviso … Read more The Four C’s Formula: Creating Clear, Concise, Compelling and Credible Copy

AIDA: The Grand Daddy of Marketing Models

Updated on 08 June 2021 AIDA: The Grand Daddy of Marketing Models. Developed in 1898 by Elias St. Elmo Lewis, an American businessman, it worked on the premise that generating attention and awareness, maintaining interest, creating desire and taking action would create more door-to-door sales. AIDA fits into 21st Century marketing strategies effectively despite the … Read more AIDA: The Grand Daddy of Marketing Models

Pain-Agitate-Solution: An Effective Copywriting Formula

Updated: 28 May 2021 Pain-Agitate-Solution. The three words alone invoke a reaction, don’t they? At a time when digital copy has become even more competitive due to the sensitive state of our World, what better way is there to promote anything than with empathy and through emotion? Commonly going by the acronym PAS, Pain-Agitate-Solution or … Read more Pain-Agitate-Solution: An Effective Copywriting Formula

The Benefits of User Research

What is user research? Simply put, it is research conducted by designers, content strategists and copywriters into the needs and wants of users of their ideas, products or services. There are many forms of user research. The earlier you can incorporate some of these into a design process, the more likely you are to transform … Read more The Benefits of User Research

What Role Has Gender Played in Copywriting?

These are age old questions when it comes to, well, just about any profession. Will you earn less according to gender? Is it a deciding factor if there’s a promotion on the line? Can a woman do the job as well as a man (or vice versa)? What role has gender played in copywriting? Copywriting … Read more What Role Has Gender Played in Copywriting?

The Most Important Aspects of Successful Copywriting

The most important aspects of successful copywriting when beginning any new project are:- Research and clarify your audience thoroughly. Identify the benefits of the product or service that you are promoting and the key messages you want to relay. Chart a strategy to approach the subject. 1. Clarify and Research Your Audience There’s always a … Read more The Most Important Aspects of Successful Copywriting

The Life of a Full Time Copywriter

The life of a full time copywriter is anything but boring. You can be misunderstood at times because you strive for excellence in all that you do and this can sometimes be misinterpreted. You are probably a perfectionist. So what does your life actually entail… ? Always on the Go “As copywriting becomes more and … Read more The Life of a Full Time Copywriter

How to Become an Effective Remote Copywriter

With the advent of Covid-19, thousands of people have to fit into our new world without any prior experience. Unemployment, or the loss of a customer base, as businesses floundered has become commonplace. As such, many have to find a new means of generating income. With face-to-face interaction minimal, we’ve needed to learn how to … Read more How to Become an Effective Remote Copywriter

The Differences Between Content Writing and Copywriting

Often, as a start-up, you’ll have one employee designated to carry out full function marketing writing, and you’ll call this person your “copywriter”. Depending on the qualifications and experience of the writer concerned, you may not be filling the copywriting function correctly. So what are the differences between content writing and copywriting? Role In corporate … Read more The Differences Between Content Writing and Copywriting