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Personal branding for copywriters

A copywriter's personal brand is a writing sample whether or not it is meant to be. Every post is an unpaid audition being marked by the exact people who might commission you.

What is different about this job

The medium and the product are identical

For everyone else, personal branding is a channel that carries evidence of the work. For a copywriter it IS the work, performed live and for free. That collapses the usual separation between marketing yourself and doing the job, and it has a sharp consequence: a mediocre post is not a neutral event, it is a demonstration of your ceiling. It also means volume is dangerous in a way it is not for other trades, because publishing daily guarantees publishing badly, in public, in your only shop window.

A real generated persona

What the generator produced for a copywriters brief.

Captured output, not a mock. It came back from the same engine behind the free persona generator, run against the brief below, and the engine is deterministic so you can reproduce it. Nell Farrow is an illustrative name, not a customer.

The brief it was generated from
Offer
conversion copywriting
Tone
sharp, unsentimental, specific
Audience
marketing leads tired of vague copy
Voice
  • Sharp
  • Unsentimental
  • Specific
  • Honest
  • Practical

Archetype: The Everyman

Tagline: Sharp. Made real.

What this persona says
  • Name marketing leads tired of vague copy directly, in the words they would use about themselves.
  • Lead with the outcome of conversion copywriting, then explain how it works.
  • Plain, level, no performance.
A caption in this voice
Most marketing leads tired of vague copy do not need more options. They need conversion copywriting to be decided. That is the part we take.

Generate one for your own brief No signup for the first output.

The mistake most people in this job make

Most copywriters post about copywriting, which demonstrates knowledge of the craft rather than the craft itself. A prospect wants to see the writing work on them, not read about how writing works.

What to actually post about

  • A rewrite shown before and after, with what changed and why
  • A piece of famous copy you think is overrated
  • The brief you would have written instead
Not for

Who should skip this entirely.

A copywriter working through agencies who never sees the end client. The audition is aimed at people who commission directly.

Other professions

The same question, a different job

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Your job is not the brief. You are.

Generate your own persona