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0:00 – Why This Video Exists… (I’m Alex Myatt – Hello New Copywriters!)
1:15 – PART 1: The Power of Copywriting
3:32 – What Can You Expect?
5:48 – Problems With Copywriting and Why ‘digital Marketers’ Fail
6:48 – Writing for a Company…
12:58 – Writing for a Prospect…
15:55 – Anti Market Focus: Beware of Vanity Metrics
19:37 – Direct and Indirect Response Schools of Advertising
25:23 – What’s the Problem With Modern Copywriting?
29:33 – The Role of Copy
32:15 – A Few Things to Keep in Mind
57:08 – 5 Stages of Awareness
1:18:08 – The Secret Weapon Most Marketers Are Afraid to Use
1:35:15 – Research
1:38:35 – The Sticky Research Process
1:40:12 – Product Research
1:41:46 – Research Template and Resources (Linked Above and Available in CC # how-to-start-copywriting channel)
1:45:10 – The Ideal Client
1:50:15 – The Existing Brand
1:51:40 – Competitor Research
2:01:05 – Market Research
2:03:23 – VOC
2:16:42 – 5 categories of VoC (+2 to Clear Up the Rest)
2:29:37 – Final Research Steps
2:33:32 – So, How Important Is Research?
2:35:50 – PART 2: Putting All This into Practise
2:38:57 – The 5 Subconscious Questions
2:47:41 – Planning Copy: Laying Out RIOA
2:51:49 – Formulas to Craft Ideas
2:58:07 – Offer Building
3:12:39 – The Next Step to Planning Copy
3:13:08 – Don’t Fall Victim to the Attention Span Fallacy
3:21:01 – Copywriters Are Attention Managers
3:26:00 – Structuring Copy
3:28:02 – Messaging Hierarchy
3:40:11 – The Final Part of Planning: Spit Drafting
3:46:35 – Turning Your Research and Planning into Copy
3:49:47 – Adapting IVOC Data
3:55:05 – Dimensionalization
4:01:43 – The Core Copywriting Structure
4:04:49 – The Lead
4:06:47 – Headline: The Most Important Aspect of Copywriting
4:14:05 – The Body
4:25:05 – The Close
4:39:19 – Editing Copy
4:53:57 – Some Other Useful Tidbits…
5:01:08 – How to Improve Your Copywriting (Long Term)
5:08:55 – Summing It All Up…
