70 episodes

Join Australia’s most popular copywriting coach Bernadette Schwerdt as she takes you deep inside the world of how to be a professional copywriter. She’ll bring you the latest in how to get started, find work, build a brand, make money, manage your mindset and more. This behind the scenes look at how to become a top copywriter is the perfect pick-me-up for any writer who wants to earn more doing something they love. This podcast is by Australian Writers' Centre and Copy School.

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    • 4.6 • 17 Ratings

Join Australia’s most popular copywriting coach Bernadette Schwerdt as she takes you deep inside the world of how to be a professional copywriter. She’ll bring you the latest in how to get started, find work, build a brand, make money, manage your mindset and more. This behind the scenes look at how to become a top copywriter is the perfect pick-me-up for any writer who wants to earn more doing something they love. This podcast is by Australian Writers' Centre and Copy School.

    COPYWRITER 070: Discover the top AI tools all copywriters need to know about

    COPYWRITER 070: Discover the top AI tools all copywriters need to know about

    Greg Baker knows more than most about AI and where it's headed. As an AI futurist and lecturer in Computational Linguistics at Macquarie University, Greg educates students on the intricacies of Artificial Intelligence for Text and Vision, and blends his theoretical insights with practical applications. 

    He helps the C-suite understand the future of labour, how to maximise AI productivity gains and how to gain a deep technical understanding of what is possible. He is a director at the Institute for Open Systems Technologies and has worked at Google and CSIRO and is a leading voice in how to understand the opportunities that AI offers us today and into the future.

    If you’re looking to discover how AI is impacting copywriters and the writing industry, this is the episode you have been waiting for. 

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    This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers' Centre. WritersCentre.com.au

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    • 1 hr 6 min
    COPYWRITER 069: How to add copyediting and proofreading to your suite of services

    COPYWRITER 069: How to add copyediting and proofreading to your suite of services

    Would you like to add copy editing, project editing and proofing to your suite of services?

    If so, then this is the episode for you.

    Matt Davies is a leading copy editor. He specialises in the health care and government sectors and has created a thriving business that lets him work on his terms so that he has the time and space to pursue his true passion – writing novels. He’s already written three and he is just going from strength to strength.

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    • 41 min
    COPYWRITER 068: In conversation with Radek Sali, former CEO of Swisse, about his new book.

    COPYWRITER 068: In conversation with Radek Sali, former CEO of Swisse, about his new book.

    Have you ever considered adding ghostwriting of business memoirs to your suite of services?

    In today's episode, we explore the riveting tale behind the meteoric rise of Swisse Wellness, as recounted in the new book, "How to Build a Billion-Dollar Business" by Radek Sali, the visionary entrepreneur and former Swisse CEO. I happened to be his co-author on this project so I thought it’d be interesting to have a chat with Radek about the ghost-writing process and to share some hints and tips on how you too can add ghostwriting to your suite of services.

    The book details how Radek and his team turned a company that had $15 million in revenue and 30 employees, into a colossal $2.1 billion empire with over 1000 employees. He openly shares the highs and lows of his incredible journey, from teetering on personal bankruptcy, to engaging the world’s top celebrities as ambassadors. The book also covers how he steered Swisse from the brink of collapse and spearheaded the sale of Swisse to the Hong Kong based Biostime, which became one of Australia’s largest ever private business transactions.

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    This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers' Centre. WritersCentre.com.au

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    • 28 min
    COPYWRITER 067: The Writing Life of Jewel Topsfield

    COPYWRITER 067: The Writing Life of Jewel Topsfield

    As a leading journalist with The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, there’s not a lot that Jewel Topsfield hasn’t written about. Social affairs, politics, immigration, education, and global affairs are just a few of her specialty areas.

    Beyond journalism, Jewel is a sought-after speaker, lecturer at universities and schools, and has led a team that won a Walkley Award and served as a Walkley Awards judge.  

    I’m talking to Jewel today about her life as a journalist and how her writing life has changed over the years in response to the changing media landscape, in response to the ways that we consume media, and in response to the way in which the success or otherwise of a story is measured and much more.

    If you’d like a masterclass in how to research a topic quickly, and come up with world class content quickly that you know is going to be read by thousands of people, that has the potential to spark Senate enquiries – as her story on people smuggling did - you could take a leaf out of Jewel’s writing life.  

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    This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers' Centre. WritersCentre.com.au

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    • 38 min
    COPYWRITER 066: How to build an online course with Amber Renae

    COPYWRITER 066: How to build an online course with Amber Renae

    If you have a passion for a topic and would like to turn that passion into profit, you may want to build an online course so you can teach it.

    Amber Renae is many things. She started out as an engineer and then pivoted, seamlessly into becoming a celebrity stylist. It’s a logical next step, isn’t it?  

    She quickly realised she has a talent for not just making people look good, but helping their content look good too and so she created a course that helped others monetise their expertise. She is now a leading specialist in helping entrepreneurs and influencers create online courses so they can live their dream life. 

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    This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers' Centre. WritersCentre.com.au

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    • 37 min
    COPYWRITER 065: ChatGPT, copywriting and neurodiversity

    COPYWRITER 065: ChatGPT, copywriting and neurodiversity

    AI and copywriting. Everyone’s talking about it but someone who’s really getting deep into the weeds of how it all works is Leanne Shelton.

    Leanne is a copywriter who has taken a right turn and has reinvented her brand to become a specialist in copy and AI. 

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    This podcast is brought to you by the Australian Writers' Centre. WritersCentre.com.au

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    • 42 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
17 Ratings

17 Ratings

Julia Manifest Your Best ,

Everything you need to know when starting a copywriting business is here.

Such a comprehensive coverage of topics relating to Copywriting, particularly helpful for those in the early stages of building their business.

Youshould Readthis ,

Essential Listening

This is the best podcast I have found on copywriting. I’ve heard copy podcasts that ramble on about themselves (!) but Bernadette’s podcast speaks with a valuable insight about all facets of the industry and we hear a range of ‘copy journeys’ and tips from current practitioners.

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