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Annual Report Copywriting Goes Strategic!

Buzzwords’ approachable narrative content

combines essential marketing gravitas with

a fluent copywriting style…

One of the reasons you’re reading this may be because your expectations of annual report copywriting are very high.  After all, your organisation’s annual report is probably the most important PR document you’ll produce this year!

High quality annual report copywriting is therefore essential for setting out in the clearest terms what’s been happening – and what your plans are for the future.

Annual report copywriting is all about creating narrative content that will interest your organisation’s various stakeholders.  These diverse audiences range from shareholders to journalists to employees, local government and more.

For their own reasons, each of these groups will be looking to your annual report for information on policy, performance and planning for several years ahead.  It’s the job of annual report copywriting to set your past, present and future activities in a meaningful context.

To achieve this, the annual report copywriting must be easy to digest yet carry a certain ‘authority’; it must be informative yet concise; and be well organised yet effective in telling that year’s story.

Issues which annual report copywriting must address

• Key statements from key people – annual review and future prospects
• Strategy and targets linked to financial and non-financial Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Operational review:  the marketplace – and the marketing
• Products and services profiled.  Competitor comparisons
• Information about employees as a resource for future change and success
• Case studies, testimonials, performance analysis
• Risk management and mitigation – putting resources in place to maximise future value
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) – the backdrop to performance and rewards

Buzzwords annual report copywriting processes

Annual report copywriting doesn’t exist in isolation.  To achieve the best results, Mike Beeson will interview your key people as well as collecting and co-ordinating all relevant facts and figures.

For optimal visual impact that complements the commercial concept underpinning your annual report, Buzzwords will work closely with your designers.  Alternatively, we can handle the entire process on your behalf - annual report copywriting, design and print, plus any online requirements.

Style-setting examples can be seen on Buzzwords’ annual report writing page.  To find out more, contact Mike Beeson today.

Buzzwords Limited
Knutsford, Cheshire
(south Manchester), UK
Tel 01565 654023
e-mail: open@buzzwords.ltd.uk