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7 Copywriting Mistakes To Avoid: When You’re Starting Out.

teacher avatar Lorenzo R., Copy Strategist

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:14

    • 2.

      Go For Simplicity

      1:50

    • 3.

      Put Yourself Second

      1:13

    • 4.

      Looks Can Be Deceiving

      2:38

    • 5.

      Write To Bob

      2:21

    • 6.

      Don't Be An Order taker

      1:04

    • 7.

      Don't Use Formulas

      1:52

    • 8.

      Grammar Is Not Important

      1:34

    • 9.

      Class Project

      0:39

    • 10.

      Conclusion

      0:51

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Don't make these copywriting mistakes, and your journey and career as a new copywriter will not only be full of joy but also extremely profitable.

Your job as a copywriter is to write words on paper and in terms of today, screens. Wrong!

Copywriting is all about strategy.

As a copywriter, you are responsible for knowing what to write, how to write it, and most importantly who you're writing to.

This short but very insightful class will lay the foundation and put you into the right mindset whenever you sit down to write a piece of copy.

When you master these concepts, with practice, of course, your copy will naturally flow in the correct direction and knock it out of the park each and every time. Guaranteed!

The only thing you need to bring to this class is a willingness to learn for improving your skills.

Some topics we're going to discuss among others:

  • Why formal English writing is not required when it comes to copywriting.
  • How to not take things at face value.
  • And why you must never write for everybody.

So whenever you're ready, start the class, and let's get you into the mindset that will spit out amazing copy that your clients will love.

Meet Your Teacher

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Lorenzo R.

Copy Strategist

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Hello, I'm Lorenzo. I'm a copywriter and subject matter enthusiast.

I've worked with clients both online and offline. I had the privilege to work amongst the most talented & experienced copywriters when I was starting in this field. 

That's why I'm here to disclose everything I've learned and didn't learn, in these classes here on skillshare.

I'm planning on releasing multiple classes so stay tuned for that.

I'll gradually be making updates to the classes going forward so that you can continue to sharpen your copywriting skills.

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1. Introduction: Hi guys. In this short course, I'm going to talk about the seven mistakes you need to avoid when it comes to writing. Copy. I'm going to go over on how to not make things difficult and outright in simple English, how do put the customer front-end? Not talk about you yourself? You should always go beyond the obvious. Why you must never use formulas and seculars. Do write your copy. I'm so excited to go on this journey with you. I can't wait to get started and see what Ireland is a beginner copywriter 45 years ago. I can't wait to see that stuff with you in this course. Let us go. 2. Go For Simplicity: Always, and I mean, always write in symbol. Down to earth. English. As you were speaking to a friend or a colleague, or your girlfriend, or your boyfriend, don't use overly complicated words. They didn't say anything to the person you're trying to sell the service. This product. Always keep it simple. As a copywriter, you need to simplify complex systems in such a way that you convince the person you're selling to press the Buy Now button. If you can't do your job as a copywriter, is gonna be extremely difficult and fulfilling. Keep it simple. Don't write like you or I call it professor. Because that stuff, be quite frank. Is downright boring. Copywriting is snippy, quick and easy. To understand. You can do that. Your journey as a copywriter is going to be much more enjoyable, much more easier. Most importantly, much more profitable. 3. Put Yourself Second: If you want your copy, be successful. You need to put the person or people you're writing to front and center and talk about what you can do for them. What do your escalate or your college degree can do for them? They want to know what's the loosen UF for them. So put your site with the oboe college degree, your PhD, you're English degree. Put it aside. The person accomplish their goals. What do you hope of copyrighting? Do accomplish? What it came to you for? Debt is a solution to the problem. 4. Looks Can Be Deceiving: As a copywriter, you must always, and I mean, always go beyond what is obvious. What do I mean by that is, say for instance, a detective arrived on the ground gene. And he sees the week then laying, it sees a few objects laying the savoring incidence this crime happened in a kitten. What a detective see makes him gum do an instant conclusion. That of course the butler must be available. Of course in so must have delayed because of what he sees. It takes it at face value. Any evolve conclusion around it. The detective might put the wrong person in prison. Because of that approach. Is taking with a gram gene. The same as a copywriter. Client comes to you and ask you the right sales e-mail. For an online course. They are about the release or loans. In a couple of weeks. You going to structure in formulate the content of the email. This sales e-mail can be a conversion scene for this gland so that they can have hundreds or even thousands of students enrolling integrals. You are going to use not obvious words, but symbol down to earlier words. Mixed in with strategy. What its strategy, the co-req the words and the co-req direction you're going to take with a copy is necessarily going to flow in the correct direction. 5. Write To Bob: The person you are writing to, you must understand first and foremost what their stories, what is the psychology? What pain points do a day one to solve? How can you give them the solution? For example, if you are going to write a woman that's going to get married in a few weeks. You want to sell this particular dress, this particular wedding gown. Do or how are you going to relate this wedding gown, this person, to the point that they have no other option but to bind this wedding Gill, you're going to sell this waiting down to this woman. Because you're going to do first and foremost, understand what is their story. What says I call a-z? What's a losing? See seguing. Before. See, warps out. Greater God or husbands grid regard to buy this dress. You understand, it's of utmost important to understand and know the person you are writing to. If you don't know the person you're writing to, you might Israel not write anything or say anything. Because what do you say? What you're going to write is going to be ineffective. Shooting in the dark, and hoping for the best. Go for the story. Understand the person you're writing to your copy. We'll knock it out of the park each and every time. Guaranteed. 6. Don't Be An Order taker : One of the no-nos of copywriting is never to be a box checker order, Baker, because each and every copywriting assignment or each and every client is going to be unique. The problem is going to be not so much unique. But the approach, the strategy you're going to take is going to be unique with each and every piece of copy. And with each and every client is going to come your way. Don't lays your copy with formulas and checklists that are static. Almost like a copy and paste. Never do it. It always approach each piece of copy in each client in a unique way. 7. Don't Use Formulas: As I said before, formulas in seculars, outdated. You need to be a chameleon. Always morph in drones form and a depth. Any sense of wisdom. Because believe me, eating every cooperating since the ways and inclined is going to come with their own unique individual problem, uf to solve for them. And you can't use a static system for each and every one of your clients. Your copy is going to be not only ineffective, but a wish was since the words thrown do get on a piece of paper on the screen. Because there's no blending that went into it. There's no strategy. Because of it. You could have just not write anything or said anything. Because the copy and paste is an ineffective system. Expect the best results from it. So stay away from static systems like formulas, secularist approach each and every copy, assignment in eaten every client in their own unique way. 8. Grammar Is Not Important: If it going to be a punctuation and grammar snob. Let me tell you now. Don't become a copywriter. Because there's not what copywriting is all about. Copywriting is all about making sale. Making people buy stuff, making people subscribe to services, making people walk out. They created God or dead. For goods and services. Cooperating, each cooperating in other word writing. If it was then eaten, every college professor would've been a very wealthy people. Because they can write a very well. They can read English perfectly. But there is not what cooperating require. A successful sales e-mail. Successful Saints later. There is not. Cooperating, requires copywriting, requires strategic person. What the end goal of selling the service? Selling this product. 9. Class Project: All right guys, for the class project, from what you guys ever learned in this short course, I want you to write down just one extra mistake. Incorporating, you should avoid, you guys can think of I want you to write it down and I wanted you guys to show me whatever written down, what you came up with. I can't wait to see it in a can't wait to give you feedback on it. That's the class project for you. In this glass. 10. Conclusion: Guys, we've come to the end of this course. I hope you've learned something. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I was creating it for you guys. There's just a small glimpse into what I've learned when I was starting out as a beginner copywriter. I'm going to release more courses in the future. Please stay tuned for that. But for now, this is where we ended. And I can't wait to hear your feedback and also give you feedback on your results. By.