What is a Copywriter? Definition and Examples
A copywriter is involved in creating the text for advertisements and other sales and marketing related material. They create copy or sales copy. In this context, the terms sales copy or copy mean promotional text.
A copywriter may be involved in various marketing related tasks, such as boosting brand awareness, informing consumers about new or upgraded products or services, social media marketing, or email marketing.
You will typically see copywriters in companies’ marketing or advertising departments.
Wikipedia says the following about copywriters:
“Copywriters help create billboards, brochures, catalogs, jingle lyrics, magazine and newspaper advertisements, sales letters and other direct mail, scripts for television or radio commercials, taglines, white papers, website and social media posts, and other marketing communications.”
Copywriters involved in promotion
Good copywriters help sellers promote and show their products and services from the best angle possible. They need to do three things simultaneously:
- Attract consumers’ attention, i.e., catch people’s eye.
- Hold people’s attention – keep them engaged.
- Encourage them to buy.
Succeeding in achieving all three at the same time is no easy task and requires a certain level of skill, creativity, and determination.
The copywriter will carry out research on the type of consumers the company needs to attract, what they are interested in, and what makes them tick, i.e., what excites or motivates them. In sales and marketing, knowing as much as possible about your target audience or niche market is crucial.
Web Copywriters
Web copywriting professionals today are greatly sought after. They write digital content for websites. This includes creating general pages, homepages, landing pages, product pages, about us pages, etc. Everything related to promoting a business online comes under the umbrella term digital marketing.
According to one of our previous articles, digital marketing involves:
“The marketing of products, services, brands, and companies using the Internet and some other digital technologies. It is similar to Internet marketing and online marketing. Since the advent of the Internet, how companies approach marketing has changed significantly.”
Advertising and promotional material sent through the Internet to laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, electronic billboards, and social media platforms all form part of digital marketing. Copywriters are involved in creating the copy for these media.
Online marketing material
Creating marketing material for the online world is very different from the traditional pre-Internet marketing approaches. A good copywriter must be aware of several aspects of the digital world from a marketing perspective, such as, for example, keyword density.
They need to be able to please customers and prospects, and also all the Google algorithms. If you can satisfy all the Google algorithms your website has the best chance of getting as much visitor traffic as possible. Everything a copywriter does regarding trying to boost visitor traffic is part of SEO, which is part of digital marketing. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.
When somebody searches for something in a search engine (Google, Yahoo, Safari, etc.), the websites that appear on the first page of the search results have been SEO optimized. Copywriters as well as website designers and developers aim achieve the best possible SEO.
Types of Media
Copywriters work in several types of media. As well as creating material for smartphones, laptops, and tablets, they write copy for brochures, newspaper ads, and billboards. They also produce content for email and surface mail campaigns.
Next time you watch an advert on TV or listen to one on the radio, remember that the words, i.e., the copy, were written by a copywriter.
If you have a website and want as many online visitors as possible, you should seriously consider hiring an experienced, professional copywriter.