Writing for the Web Training Course
Turbo-boost your online and email writing skills
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Course length: 1 day (9.30am - 5.00pm) includes breakfast, lunch and refreshments
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Overview
High quality online content for your web, mobile and social presence is critical to your organisation's success. Copy has a massive impact on audience perceptions and is the best way to communicate, persuade and sell.
Our practical one day online writing course offers research-based best practice that has been shown to improve web page and email marketing performance by over 100%.
We will use many real-life examples and re-write exercises making this a fun day, that will help you to develop real confidence in your new copywriting skills.
This course will leave you super-energised to start improving your online and digital content!
Course Programme
Understanding Your Audience
- How people read online - the impact on online copywriting
- Profiling – ways to understand your audience better, so you can write for them more effectively
- Scrolling - encouraging people to scroll and how to manage it if they don’t
- Offers and promotions – how to get people reading this critical content
- Legibility - ensure your text is easy to read on the screen
Choosing The Right Language
- What sort of language should you use online?
- Grammar - how fussy should we be?
- Guidelines and exercises on: vocabulary, sentences and paragraphs
- Tone of voice – developing consistency and excellence within an organisation
- Concision – how can we be more concise…and when is content too concise?
Communicate, Persuade And Sell
- Attract attention - make sure your core messages get looked at
- ‘Brainstem simple’ - create pages that get your message across to audiences, without them even realising it
- Front-loading – using techniques to maximise business benefit in your writing
- Guidelines and exercises on: headings, formatting, lists, links and buttons
Writing Across Websites – Guidelines And Examples
- Home pages
- Product pages (if applicable)
- Shopping cart and checkout pages (if applicable)
- FAQ’s and help pages
- Navigation and calls-to-action
Improving Email Performance
- Optimising From and Subject fields
- Working with preview panes and images
- Optimising writing for landing pages
- Writing to improve email strategy and targeting
Writing For…
- Social – best practice for Facebook posts and Twitter tweets
- Mobile – learn how to structure and write content that is suited for mobile devices
- Accessibility – make sure your website is W3C-compliant
Organisational Issues
- Managing a team – how to support your organisation in creating online content that is consistently excellent
- Review and editing of others’ work – practical advice to help make this quick, effective and efficient
Benefits
Following this training course, you will be able to:
- Write online content that successfully communicates, persuades and sells more effectively
- Understand how web, mobile and social channels impact on writing
- Make sure that your key messages stand out and are immediately understood by your audience
- Develop organisational policies and processes to ensure consistently excellent online writing (including tone of voice)
- Edit and improve other peoples’ online writing
- Sell the value of high quality online writing within your organisation
All attendees receive an attendance certificate, digital copies of course material and four weeks post course support online.
Audience
The Writing for the Web course is ideal for anyone involved in writing, curating or editing website copy and content. Typical attendees include: copywriters, content editors, marketing and website managers, project managers and business owners.
Trainer

Tim Fidgeon is one of the UK’s leading trainers in online writing and user experience. He has worked in digital marketing since the 90's and has a background in psychology and usability. He has worked with lots of major brands, including: Coca-Cola, Sony, Vodafone and General Motors.
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Testimonials

Very enjoyable course. Clear and enthusiastic trainer.
Waters

Solid, evidence-based presentation of writing for the web best practices. Highly recommended!
Aptus Health
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Writing for the web is an essential course for anyone involved with marketing their business. The trainer was a fantastic instructor, full of useful knowledge about content writing, and made the entire day a fun learning experience!
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn

I feel like I have learnt more on this course then I did when I was back in school. The trainer was very engaging and very informative. I would highly recommend this course to anybody who has an interest in writing content for the web, or would like to know the psychology behind our behavior towards online content, both on the web and social platforms.
Steatite

Great course & great trainer. I learned exactly what I needed from it! Highly recommended.
The Social Sourcery

Recently attended Emarketeers Writing for the Web course. Highly recommend - lots of useful info learnt in a jam-packed day. Left feeling very motivated, informed and inspired!
JNCC

Writing for the Web is an excellent course for beginners and experts alike. The material is delivered in an entertaining and engaging way.
OlsenMetrix Marketing

Tim was an excellent presenter. His recommendations were backed up with extensive research on best practice rather than opinion. The course will come in good use when formulating engaging and memorable content in future.
Spreadex

Excellent course. Thorough, clear and interesting - I learned a lot!
Anglia Ruskin University

The trainer was fantastic - very funny and engaging. I've gained some very useful knowledge and thoroughly enjoyed myself.
University of Reading