You may know I set up a Copywriter Club on Facebook to provide regular tips and occasional job opportunities for people who’ve done my course. It now includes 1,500 members from around the world, mostly UK freelancers with at least a year of experience.
Members have recently been asking me to mentor them, so I’ve set up a new service for groups and individuals that you might like to know about.
What’s included?
Content is driven by the attendees, but here are some of the topics that might be covered during a year-long programme of monthly group mentoring calls (on Zoom):
- AIDA, the spine of all good marketing for over 50 years
- Websites, the Jackie Barrie approach to making them work
- Theories such as Maslow, TA, nudge, feather, KISS, USP and Gestalt, how they inform the copy you write
- MailChimp and WordPress, finding your way around and offering them as an extra service
- Specific practical skills e.g. How to use track changes, how to write a job ad, working for friends and family, writing a sales letter
- Mindset issues, how to be confident with your pricing strategy
- The business side of freelance copywriting, tips around invoicing, insurance, T&Cs etc.
- Cialdini’s principles of persuasion, behavioural economics (Rory Sutherland)
- NLP and motivational strategies / towards & away copywriting
- PEST, SWOT, RACI: What they mean and how they can help you
- Tried-and-tested discovery process
- Best ways to present your copy
- Which metrics to measure and why
You don’t just get a chance to learn from my copywriting experience (18 years in-house, 20 years as a freelancer). It’s also likely that group members will start referring work between themselves, once they get to know each other through the live calls. So the benefits could be immeasurable.
“Jackie generously shares her wisdom and experience, always cheerfully. It’s genuinely a privilege to be mentored in this way. Jackie easily shows how she uses insights from her understanding of psychology to elevate the task of copywriting to an art through science. At the same time she keeps it down to earth and simple, enabling you to do the same.”
Kay Cox
How it works
The initial programme of live group mentoring sessions runs from 2:00pm to 3:15pm on the second Tuesday of each month, so:
- 13 April 2021
- 11 May 2021
- 15 June 2021
- 13 July 2021
- 10 August 2021
- 14 September 2021
- 12 October 2021
- 9 November 2021
- 14 December 2021
- 11 January 2022
- 15 February 2022
- 15 March 2022
Please book those dates into your calendar.
If the live sessions are not convenient for you, you can always subscribe to the videos instead.
Numbers are limited to 20 – if there are enough responses, I’ll set up a second mentoring group to meet on a different day.
“Jackie is my copywriting guru and has singlehandedly transformed my copywriting career. I have learnt so much about the industry, the craft and how to make a decent living as a freelance copywriter. Most importantly of all, I have learnt to price my work according to its worth and develop processes and systems to enable my own copywriting business to succeed.”
Lucy Banwell
121 support
You can book me for one or more private mentoring sessions, focused purely on you, your copy skills, your challenges and your goals. You can ask me anything. For example:
- Help to create your own outreach marketing plan
- Feedback on a project you’re currently writing
- Advice about how to deal with a particularly tricky client
- Anything else that would be useful
“Jackie has a wealth of copywriting experience and shares that knowledge generously. Coupled with her psychology qualifications and creative approach to using Zoom, her sessions are not only super-informative but also engaging and fun. I have left our meetings feeling inspired and understanding much, much more about the various processes of copywriting.”
Alex Galbinski
Your investment
- Attend 12 x monthly live Zoom calls + get all videos for £25 per month PAYG or £250 per year
(Paying annually saves £50pa compared with paying monthly – it also saves admin time) - OR pay £125 and get drip-feed access to all the recordings
- OR book 121 mentoring sessions at £100 per hour
- All fees + VAT and payable in advance
What next?
Contact me to advise:
- The top 3 topics you’d like me to cover
- Any other ideas you may have
- Your full name
- Your postal address
- What timezone you’re in
- What payment option you’d prefer
Deadline for response = 2 April 2021
I’m looking forward to working with you, and will send your invoice and login details nearer the time.
P.S. For free advice, remember to join my Copywriter Club. It has a strict ‘no sales’ policy, a supportive nature, and more of a UK flavour than many of the copywriting groups on Facebook. You can ask me anything in there, although I can’t promise to respond immediately.