Lesson 11 of 20

Marketing ideas and copy

Ideas that work do not come from asking for "social media ideas". They come from the questions your actual customers keep asking you.

You generate twenty, throw out eighteen on your own judgement, and turn the two survivors into copy you can publish.

Unit 3 · Ideas, content and data Part of the full course
6 min · 10 steps · beginner level

What you will be able to do afterwards

  • Mine your real customers for ideas instead of generic lists.
  • Cut fast on your judgement rather than the AI’s taste.
  • Turn one idea into several pieces without repeating yourself.

What is inside

The 10 steps of the lesson, in order. Each one works on a phone and marks itself.

  1. Plenty of ideas, but only you decide
  2. Where good ideas come from
  3. Ideas that aren’t one-size-fits-all
  4. From a customer question to three pieces of content
  5. Before you hit publish
  6. True or false
  7. Your idea session
  8. From idea to published text
  9. Each piece, its own brief
  10. The line you can't let slip through
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The other lessons in this unit

Ideas, content and data: Beyond email: marketing, texts in your voice, weekly planning, spreadsheets and images.

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