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Copywriting Briefing Form
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As a Point and Stare client, please complete the following form in as much detail as possible to help us properly understand your business and how our writing fits into your plans.
Some questions might be irrelevant, that's fine, just skip those.
Obviously, the more relevant information you can give, the higher the quality of the work we can do for you and the more value we can offer. It really is worth the effort!
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Company info
Project title
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Organisation
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Your email
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Who is your company? How big are you?
Who are the people behind the product?
What’s your history, philosophy, corporate policies and values?
Who are the management team?
Where are your locations/ offices?
What’s the product or service?
Do you have technical data, user guides, websites, customer feedback, press reviews?
What image do you adopt?
How has the project come about?
Business/product USPs, benefits and differentiators?
What does your product/service/organisation do that your competitors don’t/can’t?
Where can we get the main bulk of the information I need?
Have you won any awards or achieved any accreditations you wish to shout about?
Copywriting objectives
What do you want the copy to achieve for you?
What’s the concrete aim of the copy?
What main messages do you want to get across?
Do you need any original concepts to be used?
What do you want a visitor to do as a result of reading?
(This is known as a ‘call-to-action’ objective)
Where will the copy be used?
Include page size/format where applicable
Online
Print
Both on and offline
Online - URL
Print
Please provide estimated print size/ format information
Details of this project
Include approximate word/page count
Deadline
DD slash MM slash YYYY
Target audience/typical customer
Who will buy your products and use your services?
What motivates them?
What are their main concerns?
What is typically your customers’ biggest problem?
Who is your reader? Where are they?
Demographics: Age, gender, social class
Life stage: No children, single, retired, young family, parents, post-children
Values: religious, cash-conscious, environmentally aware, left-wing, right-wing, animal lovers, conservative, liberal
Relationship to your brand: They know nothing about you, they’re prospects, customers, regular customers, brand advocates
Who are your competitors?
Please supply 3 - 5 of your main competitors’ URLs?
Style issues
Your preferences for how we should address your audience to show your organisation’s personality or voice.
Voice and tone of writing
What tone should the copy take? Informal, friendly, chatty etc?
Any controlled vocabulary?
Any words or phrases that must or must not be used?
Do you have any specific keywords/phrases you would like used?
Any third party involvement
Interviewees?
Client resources to be supplied
Magazine article and previously used writing supplied for reference.
Max. file size: 2 MB.
Any other information?
What keywords/phrases do people use to search for your business on the web?
What do people typically ask about your company and its products/services?
What are the answers?
Any other relevant background information?
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