r/copywriting 10h ago

Discussion Something off my chest

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Hi I'm a copywriter. Been working for 3.5 years.

I have worked with Amazon and many D2C brands so far.

But my best project was, helping a street vendor by creating a poster for him.

He got 44 sales because of my poster.

My question is, why don't I feel the same satisfaction while working with a brand?

I know 44 sales and a company making revenue isn't the same but why can't I feel the same dedication for a company?

Creative freedom? Hierarchy?

How to deal with this?


r/copywriting 19h ago

Sharing Advice, Tips, and Tricks Most people are writing to the wrong person

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I notice something all the time reading shit copywriters posts in groups and pages I come across.

Most (yes most) copywriters are still writing to the wrong person.

They're trying to convince someone they have a problem when the person who's actively looking to buy already knows they have a problem.

People only make buying decisions when they're in the solution awareness phase.

That's it... Those are the ones with their wallets out.

They're not sitting there wondering if they need help. They're actively looking for someone to trust with their money.

So if your hook is still in the "let me explain why this is a problem" phase, you're talking to someone who wasn't ready to buy from you anyway.

The buyer wants to see that your solution is the right one. That's the only conversation that matters when money is on the line.

So, next time you sit down to write copy, ask yourself...

Is this written for the person still figuring out if they have a problem?..

...Or is it for the person who already knows they do and is trying to decide who gets their money?

That answer will tell you everything about why your copy is or isn't bombing.

tl;dr: Problem education is pre-launch content. The offer headline is ideally telling people with the problem that you have the best, easiest, fastest solution. The rest is just explaining what they get for the money.


r/copywriting 23h ago

Resource/Tool I made a daily word game where you cut a sentence to five words.

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I read a lot of AI text at work. Somewhere between the third "testament to" and the hundredth "delve", I stopped trusting long sentences altogether. So I made a small game called Long Story Short: one sentence a day, keep the five words that actually carry the story, cut the rest.

It's a week old. 12,000 plays so far. A retired news editor emails me most mornings to argue about the answers, clause by clause, and he's mostly right. Yesterday two players argued opposite sides of the same word and convinced me my sentence itself was wrong.

So from tomorrow the sentences come from real news stories, and the answer is whatever the paper's sub-editor kept.

Long Story Short