The Copywriter's Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Strategic Advertising Copy

Written from a real-world perspective by an award-winning copywriter/producer/director, this comprehensive guide is what every writer needs to create powerful, strategic ad copy. Focusing on strategy, technique, and the skills needed to write for different media, The Copywriter's Toolkit book will sharpen your copywriting skills whatever your level.

• Introduces essential conceptual strategies and key writing techniques for result-driven copy
• Provides practical advice on writing for specific media including: print, radio, TV, websites, blogs, social media, ambient, digital, direct mail, product packaging, and viral marketing
• Covers all areas of copy development: on-strategy and on-target messaging; headline and slogan creation; brand personality and tone of voice; broadcast production conceptualization and print / digital typesetting consideration
• Presents innovative visual examples from exciting multimedia campaigns, comments from copywriters at world-renowned agencies, inspiring radio scripts, TV scripts and storyboards, effective blog posts, imaginative package copy, and more
• Shares invaluable writing tips and insights from award-winning copywriters currently at global agencies
• Includes supplementary website an instructor's manual, sample syllabus, PowerPoint presentations, and creative assignments, as well as student study aids, flashcards, podcasts and/or webinars by the author, and links to sample and featured campaigns, agencies, and related videos

Author: Margo Berman
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 08/20/2012
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781405199537
ISBN10: 1405199539
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Business & Economics | Advertising & Promotion

About the Author

Margo Berman is Professor of Advertising at Florida International University and has more than 20 years' experience as a creative director and copywriter. She is the author of Street-Smart Advertising: How to Win the Battle of the Buzz (2010) and co-author (with Robyn Blakeman) of The Brains Behind Great Ad Campaigns: Creative Collaboration between Copywriters and Art Directors (2009).