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Event Details

Date: Jul 25, 2025
Start Time: 10:00 am
End Time: 1:00 pm
Location: De Montfort University, The Innovation Centre 49 Oxford Street Leicester LE1 5XY

Contact Information

Phone: 0116 454 2917
Email: CreateGrowth@bizgateway.org.uk

Welcome to our Summer Series for Creative Businesses! Taking place every Friday in July, this series is delivered in partnership with the Create Growth Programme, led by the Leicester and Leicestershire Business and Skills Partnership. Each session offers expert-led workshops and masterclasses designed to ignite new ideas and support the growth of your creative business.

Copywriting 101

Whether you’re promoting products, services or your brand, writing powerfully and with purpose can enhance your business success.

In fact, the way your business communicates through the written word can be a key tool in your professional ‘toolkit’. Effective copy can help you inspire action and engagement and strengthen your message. In this session, we’ll explore aspects of good copywriting practice and some key principles for how to make words work harder.

Trainer BioGillian Heggs – Copywriting Specialist

Gillian Heggs has 40 years’ experience as a copywriter. She’s also a highly experienced trainer, who has taught a range of copywriting skills to several thousand delegates.

Agenda

  1. The power of planning
  2. Four tips for better copywriting
  3. Building your brand voice
  4. Getting attention: headlines
  5. Starting strongly
  6. Using words to communicate more clearly
  7. What are we really ‘selling’?
  8. Driving response: how can we make our call to action work harder?

Organized by: De Montfort University