Course overview
Learn how to write copy for digital channels and consistently produce copy that builds your brand and gets results.
Campus locations
What you'll learn
- Understand how your audience read and interact with digital content compared to print media
- Create social media copy that fits into your company’s digital marketing strategy
- Develop outstanding web and email copywriting techniques, learning how to create effective SEO copy
- Create compelling blog posts and social media messaging for B2C and B2B
- Respond to comments and feedback across digital channels using clever copywriting
- Effectively measure your digital content success
Study method
- In-class
- Blended
- Online
Locations
- England
- London
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Duration study load
- 2 days
- 14 CPD hours
Assessment
In order to attain the Award in Digital Copywriting and use the honorifics Award DC you must successfully pass 1 assessment. You will have 3 weeks to complete the assessment.
Testimonials
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Victoria Lovegrove"The Award is a really comprehensive course ideal for all level of copywriters. It equips students with the skills to create successful digital campaigns – you’ve just got to get out there and start applying what you have learnt. I feel much more confident now and would definitely recommend it"
Delivery
Intensive – Central London
2 day face-to-face session which take place at the IDM offices in Central London. The exact location of our courses vary, so please make sure you check before attending.
Subjects
Learning objective: Understand how your audience read and interact with digital content.
- How do readers ‘see’ digital content?
- The ‘skim’ factor – skimmers and scanners vs. longer readers
- Web usability research and what it means for effective writing
- Mobile – where your customers and audience are today most likely read your copy
Learning objective: How marketing messages can be more effective with the right digital copy.
- Getting into a digital mind-frame
- Understanding the importance of keywords and phrases used in copy
- How to sell digital copy
- How to make the most of each medium – websites, emails, ads
- Reviewing what will work and where
- Creating a checklist for effective web copywriting
Learning objective: Writing effectively for both your audience and search engines.
- How SEO copywriting affects digital content – where else will your headlines appear?
- Which words are the most important on a web page? And why?
- Understanding ‘call to actions’ the digital way
Learning objective: Making emails and email marketing campaigns work harder.
- Identifying why your audience would read – or ignore – your email
- Getting the subject line right
- How to avoid getting sent straight to spam
- What are the golden rules and cardinal sins?
- What to test and why
Learning objective: How to effectively edit existing content to make it work across all digital channels.
- Key points to consider when repurposing or editing content
- Identifying when digital content should be considered
- Quick wins available with little effort: digital copywriting tricks
- When copy alone is not enough… Making sure enhanced content is working just as hard for you
- Identifying key editing do’s and don’ts
- How to start incorporating the day’s principles within other digital copy opportunities
Learning objective: An overview of social media and blogs, their importance and the impact they have.
- Identifying where blogging and social media sit in the marketer’s arsenal
- Discovering how they affect SEO
- Exploring why they need to be written in a different way to websites and print copy
Learning objective: How to create a blog and take the conversation further.
- Understand what a blog is – dialogue, not a conversation
- Identifying the top 5 content rules for a great blog as well as the top 5 cardinal sins for a great blog
- Where to find and promote blogs, and reviewing existing blog examples
Learning objective: To delve deeper into social opportunities using blogs.
- Identifying opportunities through links/blog-rolls/tag clouds etc
- How to stimulate and deal with comments
Learning objective: Considerations when writing copy for key platforms and how to think strategically.
- Reviewing what you want to achieve
- Recapping the potential benefits
- Identifying where your audience is, what they are doing and what they expect
- Ways to measure success
Learning objective: Identifying where they fit in with your social media strategy and how they can help boost your digital success.
- How they can work for you and what they each offer
- Recognising what their users expect
- Identifying the key competitors
- Understanding what you need to think of from a writing point of view
Learning objective: Understanding the importance of your words and what people search for.
- Knowing how copy really works
- The importance of your words and phrases when other people are searching
- How to make the most of the #tag/RT/lists
Learning objective: Understanding the key points to consider when writing copy for social media.
- Identifying the top 5 things to consider
Learning objective: Deploy the necessary skills to stimulate and deal with comments and feedback across all digital channels.
- Commenting and dealing with comments
- How to adopt the right tone, phrasing and reaction
Learning objective: Recap of the techniques covered so far.
- Overview of top 10 things to remember when writing and editing digital content for web, email, blogs and social media including keywords, SEO, captions, subject lines, eye-catching copy, user journeys, strategic techniques, engaging copy, stronger calls to action and using enhanced media to support your copy
Learning objective: Understanding your audience to adapt your copy.
- Using personas to better target your digital copy
- How to create personas, why they are so important, using personas to adapt your copy for different mediums and devices
About Institute of Data & Marketing
For 30 years, it's been our mission to provide best-in-class training, qualifications, events, resources and membership services to meet the real-world needs of today's digital, direct and data marketers.
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