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- Last Chance: $49 Starts Your Copywriting Career Until midnight, you can get started with our flagship copywriting training program — for just $49. You’ll learn the fundamentals of what makes for successful, persuasive copy… how to write five of the most commonly requested writing projects… and exactly what you need to do to launch your business, land clients, and start living your writer’s life.
- PLAYBACK: How to Thrive as a Copywriter in 2026 and Beyond A new kind of writer is taking over in 2026, and it’s creating a massive opportunity for anyone smart enough to move fast. Listen in as AWAI Executive Director Katie Yeakle and A-level copywriter Guillermo Rubio walk you through what you need to know to become one of these new copywriters.
- Living the Writer's Life: Donna Kaluzniak Donna Kaluzniak’s journey to the writer’s life is happy proof that you can make any niche your focus as a writer. Even as life’s twists and turns brought her a 36-year career outside of the writing world, her longtime love of writing surfaced as retirement neared. Read on to discover how Donna established herself in a unique niche complete with fear-free, well-paid writing jobs.
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- SEO Helped Your Clients Rank. AIO Helps Them Be Understood. While SEO was designed to help clients rank at the top of search results, AIO (AI Optimization) focuses on ensuring their expertise is accurately interpreted and summarized by the AI systems that now act as intermediaries. The shift means that visibility is no longer just about being found, but about ensuring content is structured clearly enough to be faithfully understood by both humans and algorithms.
- Winners of AWAI’s February New Writers Contest Pam Foster is here today to announce the names of the winners for the February new writers contest! Check out Pam’s short video for the winners and brief insights about why each of these winning submissions impressed her.
- Success Story Interview: Jon Stoltzfus From Rocket Scientist to Copy Chief: Building Winning Copy Through Strategy and Process If you’ve been part of the AWAI community for any length of time, you’ve likely heard of Jon Stoltzfus — the former rocket scientist who built a highly successful career as a copywriter and marketing strategist. Today, Jon serves as a copy chief and strategist in the financial and information marketing niches, where he not only writes winning copy, but trains and guides junior writers as well. In this Inside AWAI conversation with Executive Director Katie Yeakle, Jon shares how he first made the transition into copywriting, what helped him gain traction early on, and how his analytical background shaped the way he approaches strategy and messaging.
