So we can provide the most relevant copywriting information in this forum, I'd like to know what you write.

For example, are you a catalog site owner who writes descriptions for your ecommerce site? Need to learn SEO copywriting to boost your positioning? Do you focus mostly on offline copy like brochures or newspaper ads?

Whoever you are and whatever you write, tell us so we can serve you better.

I write the copy on our web sites so I guess that would classify as part informative, part sales, part SEO.

I also write articles related to search engine marketing that are published online. I wrote four quotes that were published in Brad Hill's Building Your Business with Google For Dummies (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764571435/103-8609023-8503022?) and write web site reviews for Create Magazine - Phoenix Edition (http://www.createmagazine.com/index.cfm?IssueName=phoenix).

I write business plans, marketing plans, television commericals, film and television program scripts and a lot of proposals.

Kent Capener

I'm a developer not a writer. Yet I find many of my clients want me to fill in or interpret thier marketing speak into the websites. I know enough about SEO to be dangerous.

I've also started a venture where I will have to write some small business success stories and I must improve my writing skills. I have the creative urge but not always the "appropriate" skills.

Is there a 5- 10 step quick method or guide for copy writing to help me improve?

eSearing

Welcome esearing! :standingw:

I'm not aware of any 5-10 step quck guide to copywriting. Most are more detailed than that because copywriting is such a unique form of writing. Then you have all the sub-categories of copywriting (web writing, SEO copywriting, sales letters, brochures, etc., etc.)

You'll really do best to find someone (coach, mentor) or something (book, ebook, seminar, etc.) that will allow you to learn by example and practice. That's how most writers learn.

You can go to your favorite engine and search to find a bunch of copywriting courses and seminars that might help you. You'll just have to look them over to see which offer what you're looking for.

You can also search Amazon.com. They have many books on the subject, too.

I write long emails. ;) Mostly stories, experiences, tales.

I am therefore a very poor copywriter cos I have a tendency to ramble and wander before I make my point! :D

WOW.................let's see

I write:
articles, ad copy, and press releases for both of my ebooks
How To Get Sponsored For Fishing Tournaments
How To Find Prospects Using Little or NO Money

and I write the ebooks too.........

And am working on writing one more.

I write ezine articles relating to primitives.
My own monthly newsletter
Monthly article for Beneath the Willow Tree
Food reviews for Riverstreet Gourmet
Articles for Primmart

Enough interest has been shown that I am opening a website for just my writings. Some short stories and such.

Cedara