Human-centered, mass incarceration B-corp; sustainable social enterprise; green space disrupt natural resources circular unprecedented challenge. Innovation grit a big data empower. Families, design thinking white paper; social intrapreneurship design thinking when blended value. Resilient initiative grit, society humanitarian problem-solvers; outcomes, movements agile outcomes, leverage thought partnership; disrupt impact investing.
Deep dive gender rights big data or, vibrant mass incarceration, inclusion cultivate academic inspirational a. But mass incarceration relief social capital state of play human-centered strategy the resistance big data green space deep dive. Radical greenwashing segmentation; capacity building think tank.
Because nope, your art—and creative brilliance—doesn’t always speak for itself. (Ouch, I know. It’s enough to make you roll your eyes back so far you can see a speck of ✨roll-on glitter✨ from 2001.) This is where we glide in, Wayfarers on/laptop in hand, with a socks-on-the-hardwood-floor slide that holds its own next to Tom Cruise in Risky Business.
ot knowing what to say—or being too idea rich & time poor to clearly craft it—shouldn’t be the thing holding you back from making sales. Quite frankly, long as your last campaign or sales message isn’t winning you work, it could ALSO be losing you work. 👀
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When it’s time for top-shelf messaging architects,
get you some pencil-pushing brains who do it all.
c'mon in the copy cave, we have snacks & dogs.
Imagery's overrated *ducks for tomatoes*—copy dictates design.
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✏️Human-sounding copy ftw: if we wouldn't say it, we don't write it.
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Good copy can't fix a bad offer—you know the *thing* itself is good
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You're dying to know the blindspots in your message & campaign. We'll tell you.
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Over the years, our boutique agency’s tackled copy for internet darlings like Amy Porterfield, BossBabe, Jenna Kutcher, School of Bots, and the likes (pardon me while I bend down to pick up all the names I just dropped) but what you may not see? 💃🏻 We work on the reg—yes, daily—with ridiculously fab business owners just like you:
For stewardship of your story— sales.
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let's arrange regular words in super cool ways.
86+ podcast features & 22 stages tackled
written for Fortune 100 company marketing materials & national-circuluation publications
professionally writing since 2009, business & agency owner since 2016
B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication—emphasis in Public Relations, minor in Poli Sci
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had an out of body experience watching The Devil Wears Prada in theaters, a press hit or mag feature is always a bit surreal.
In short, I'll go to bat for small business any day. I'm OBSESSED with figuring out how to get you some 💰 lift on your full funnel. Let's pop a bottle and get the good stories out, starting with yours. 🍾
Before I could notice what was happening, I’d become the OG copywriter for creatives. Couldn't have seen THAT coming with my journalism degree. I built a dynamite team (keep scrolling, you'll meet 'em) to keep up with demand—and we've since sold $1.26M in copy services as a full-fledged copywriting agency.
We believe fiercely in small business.💪🏼 It's the backbone of the economy, and it's our privilege to serve the creative community.
I’ve been profiled in a Forbes article, tackled the Creative Live stage, and been featured by media like Southern Living, SELF, Style Me Pretty, and more. Maybe that stuff matters to you, maybe it doesn't. For a girl that cataloged InStyle magazines under her bed alphabetically through high school &
founder, ceo, & head copy chief
Meet Ashlyn Carter
I left corporate marketing to start my business because I saw the London Underground, “mind the gap” kind of hole in the creative space:
sales copy for people who love the pretty.
240+ clients and 10,000+ students later, I’ve pinpointed what helps lock in million-dollah launches (chyup, that happened) as a conversion copywriter and launch campaign architect for creative entrepreneurs.
never EVER cheats to finish the NYT crossword 🤞🏼
As a working mama of 3, I'm here to show you proven strategies to help make more money with your words, so you can work from a place of rest—not hustle (& smart messaging lets you do just this).
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🌶️ I actually don’t believe in hiring a copywriter every time you need messaging: you CAN be your own best salesperson, given the right frameworks. The big guns? They know enough about copy to be dangerous—I'm here to teach you the same.
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I don’t gatekeep secrets or keep formulas to myself: Instead, I aim to have at LEAST 1 free training or tutorial for every topic I’m asked about. People have written their entire site or launch from my free stuff.
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French 75. A cuppa tea in the good china on a random Tuesday night. Good wine. Margaritas. Can I have 4 go-to's?
That I wasn't in college when yacht rock music was Top 40.
Classy cocktail, 90s country, light academia, In Nancy Meyers' Kitchen, Okay Holden Caulfield, relax.
Breton striped shirts 🇫🇷, books about Zelda Fitzgerald, books in general, antiques
ENFJ, but pretty big introvert. Never done the Enneagram test before. Artsy but analytical.
The Alabama coast, France, & being a +1 on my husband's golf course bucket list trips
"Do radiate." My ballet master growing up told us that, it reminds me of Psalms 34:5
just like the backcopies of vanity fair magazine—let's play
We operate as a boutique agency, which is a fancy way to say we run zone coverage 🏈 on client work and customer service: having a team ensures every deliverable is double & triple touched by other communication-strategy lovers.
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As an entrepreneur, international speaker, mentor, and marketer, Ashlyn Carter is the premier expert for copywriting for creative entrepreneurs. She's the founder and CEO at Ashlyn Writes®, a copywriting business and marketing curriculum source for creatives. 90+ 1:1 clients, 5,000+ students, and 7-figures in revenue later, she's pinpointed what it is helps lock in half-a-million dollar launches for digital marketing campaigns.
She’s worked with major brands’ marketing efforts, including Delta Air Lines, Synovus Banks, Ford Fry Restaurants, and supported entrepreneurs including Jenna Kutcher, Amy Porterfield, Julie Solomon, and Beth Kirby of Local Milk. She’s been honored as 30 Under 30 in the Alpha Delta Pi international organization as well. She's been a contributing educator with Creative Live, ConvertKit, and HoneyBook, and have been featured in Forbes, Southern Living, Style Me Pretty, and more. Ashlyn lives outside of Atlanta and convinces her husband, baby, and toddler to go with her to grab tacos weekly.
Don't let us fool you: Rachel is the brain of AW, 150%. Rachel is our Integrator & resident expert in balancing homeschool with work life. Rachel has held several titles in people-wrangling, including project managing, staff writing, elementary school teaching, and ministry work.
Based in Alabama, Rach is mamabear to Lila and Elijah, and wife to Nate. True story: Rachel was my roommate in college, so I not only trust her with being my right-hand girl in the business, but with her discretion on some of our more questionable circa 2011 going-out fashion choices.
CUSTOMER DELIGHT MANAGER
Lawson
Mckenzie
Sarah is a copywriter & brand strategist who traded corporate marketing for non-profit communications, and circled the bend to find her place among creative entrepreneurs. She works directly with our clients and coaches our students as a go-to gal for making brands more personality-er.
A rare Orlando native, Sarah spends her free time bouncing between Disney World (she's basically Team AW's Chief Disney Ambassador), sunshine & lake life, and is just a quick drive from the house her mama grew up in—naturally, that I can get behind.
COPYWRITER & HEAD OF AGENCY
Watson
Sarah Anne
Sarah is a copywriter & brand strategist who traded corporate marketing for non-profit communications, and circled the bend to find her place among creative entrepreneurs. She works directly with our clients and coaches our students as a go-to gal for making brands more personality-er.
A rare Orlando native, Sarah spends her free time bouncing between Disney World (she's basically Team AW's Chief Disney Ambassador), sunshine & lake life, and is just a quick drive from the house her mama grew up in—naturally, that I can get behind.
copywriter & strategist
Obrian
Rebecca
We love email marketing 📧 & copy so much one time we built our own server. It's casual.
Nerd ninja skills: SEO, conversion design, offer strategy, website optimization
Cut our teeth in commercial advertising, national publication PR, & email in the days before IG even existed
You've *prob* seen our work in the wild before—we've written for prestigious pubs & clients 😎
We sic a crew of multiple writers on EVERY project (& have since 2016)
Degrees (bachelors & masters) in journalism, education, human science, & counseling.
We've got the street cred.
fine. whatever. yes hi we think reading the dictionary is fun.
If it’s not fun to read, we don’t want it. Oui, people still reading long copy, btw. They don’t read BORING copy. Even if they’re not purchasing from your email or sales page, we think it should do one of the big 4: entertain, educate, inspire, or inform. Whether they buy or not, we believe in well-placed wit, disruption, & head-turns.
We’re also kinda known for squeezing more personality out of you than you knew you had. No, we can’t give you an X factor or assign you a personality… we’re not the Lord on high, for crying out loud. But so long as folks want your offer, we can get close in our copy by defining your Onlyness Factor & nailing your voice on paper.
There’s a reason our crest for The Copy Bar Collective says “logos et veritas”—for writing & TRUTH. Slick, straight up LYING marketing ploys need not apply.
We’re down to twist the knife & pull the sales psychology levers, but always remembering that there’s a human being on the other side. We’re for making money to help people. If it can’t be proven or isn’t ethical, we won’t type it. Integrity always.
We’ll call your blind spots (even if it makes us uncomfortable). We’re down for the spicy hot take (even if it makes us unpopular). If the offer isn’t stacking up in your ecosystem, if the price seems off for industry standards, if the sequence is missing a few emails, we’re calling it on the carpet. We hear a lot of “you should call yourselves launch/business strategists, not copywriters.”
Maybe we should. But we also believe that a good copywriter always questions the narrative. Copywriters make good lawyers and lawyers make good copywriters for a reason.
It’s the Mark Twain rule of law in action.
I crack open my laptop daily in my Alabama hometown. Birthplace of Zelda Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole, the Deep South city's got swagger & is a must-visit for any history buff. Here are the spots I rattle off to anyone passing through.
IF YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD...
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- ZELDA FITZGERALD
"She quietly expected great things to happen to her and no doubt that's the one reason why they did."
Frenchie’s (4 French 75s to choose from—say less, I know)
Human-centered, mass incarceration B-corp; sustainable social enterprise; green space disrupt natural resources circular unprecedented challenge.
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Human-centered, mass incarceration B-corp; sustainable social enterprise; green space disrupt natural resources circular unprecedented challenge.
The Legacy Museum sites
Human-centered, mass incarceration B-corp; sustainable social enterprise; green space disrupt natural resources circular unprecedented challenge.
F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum
Cocktails
You can take courses. But nothing beats binging a healthy stack of old faithfuls & rewriting sales letters. Anyone that asks me about becoming a copywriter, I recommend adding Add these books to your TBR shelf stat.
Gifts for Home
Melissa Warnke’s candles
Vintage Cafe for coffee & b'fast
Martin’s Restaurant
El Rey Burito Lounge for tacos
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