Talking Shrimp

copywriting. jumbo style.

Laura Belgray smiles while holding a tube of pink lip gloss, wearing a pink blouse against a light beige background. Text above her reads: “Be the name on everyone’s lips.”

Want words that boost your buzz and bring the cha-ching? I'll help.

If you’re an entrepreneur, small company, hobbyist, or Komodo dragon who needs writing that won’t put people to sleep — and you do need it, if you want them to stick around, give you money, and tell the world about you — I can help you with that.

(Why would a Komodo dragon need help with writing? Because Komodo dragons are notoriously shitty writers.)

How to work with Laura

"buy now" trainings   yearly courses & coaching   1-1 consults

Quite simply, I help you write copy that sounds like you talk and makes people want what you sell.

Let's go a step further: I help you find the words, pathways, and courage/ nerve/ chutzpah to make your business a 100% expression of your personality...so you're getting paid to be you.

My roster of private clients (which I no longer take) has included major TV networks like Bravo, HBO, and NBC, and many online biggies, like Brooke Castillo, Amy Porterfield, and the one and only Marie Forleo.

Together, Marie and I scripted her weekly online show, Marie TV. It’s Webby-honored, and has over 48 million views. Best of all, we partnered to create The Copy Cure, a copywriting course to help you find your voice…and sell your anything.

But you don't have to be a internet-famous to work with me. Or famous-famous. Scroll down for ways for you to get your copy-and-content learnin' on.

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Signature Talking Shrimp Trainings

On-demand learning! (What you saved your allowance for.)

Talking Shrimp’s “Emails that Sell” workshop, with text reading, “How to write emails that have your list clicking, buying, and drooling at your every word,” alongside a photo of Laura Belgray smiling behind a laptop. A button at the bottom reads, “free workshop.”
FREE WORKSHOP

Emails that Sell

Inside this free workshop, you'll learn:

• How to get busy people pouncing to open your emails
• The writing style that makes you utterly addictive
• What to write when you don't know what to write (I promise, you'll be excited!)
• The single tweak that more than doubled my revenue
• How to tell compelling stories that convert to SALES

Get it FREE
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Digital Download

Email Cash Cow

In this mega video training, I’ll show you the fixes that turn an *entertaining* email into one that sells on command. We’ll uncover:

• 15 common “click blockers” that snuff out interest and kill conversions
• The “ick"-busting belief shift that will make selling in email feel natural and (I swear) fun
• 9 story types that act like “selling salts” for your reader’s brain
• 22 non-sleazy profit boosters to pump up clicks and (joyful) sales in any email

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Digital Download

Make Your Point: The Story-to-Sale Workshop

In this recorded workshop, you’ll learn how to:

• Seamlessly bridge from a story to a call to action
• Connect personal writing to a product, offer, or idea that matters
• Give your story a point — whether it leads to a sale or just sticks the landing
• Keep your story’s soul intact — and still get the damn click
• Reverse-engineer a story that sells what you're selling

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DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

60-Minute Makeovers Copywriting Mini-Course

What if you could take your website or sales page...From meh to money? From bye-bye to must-buy? From so-so to SOLD!... All with just a few powerful word tweaks that take you under an hour? It's my best-selling mini-course to date, and a perfect complement to The Copy Cure — in either order!

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DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

About Page and Professional Bio Builder

Have trouble writing about yourself? Here's your lifeline. Don't let your About page — the secret, hot profit center of your site — leave a single dollar, euro, or shekel on the table. Grab this and get 'er done.

(With Bonus Guide: Your Mega-Impressive, Money-Making, Professional Mini Bio -- perfect for any media you do).

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Talking Shrimp’s Inbox Hero: Makeover Style Email Copywriting Course,” alongside Laura Belgray smiling behind a laptop. A badge in the upper right reads, “includes story hero!"
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Inbox Hero! Email-Copywriting Course

Want to write emails that get your subscribers opening, clicking, drooling and BUYING? I'll show you how, before-and-after style. In these email makeovers, you'll see mistakes even the online-biggies make in their newsletters, and how I'd fix them.

Plus, the REVERSE makeovers: a showcase of high-converting emails, with a point-by-point breakdown of why they work, and what you should steal ASAP.

You asked for an all-email version of 60-Minute Makeovers...and here it is! (With a whole lot more. Let's just say it got kinda big for its "mini-course" britches.

LEARN MORE HERE
Talking Shrimp’s “Launch Hero! Email Copywriting Course for launch sequences that kick ass (and make bank).” A button at the bottom reads, “online course.” Devices on the right display course materials including “How to keep readers hooked,” “Secrets to a True 6-Figure ‘Lazy Launch,’” “Pre-Launch Emails,” and “Launch Hero: Inbox Hero Sequence.”
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Launch Hero! Email-Copywriting Course for Launching

Want to create that
"Shut up and take my money" moment?
From just your emails?
Yeah you do. Launch Hero shows you how. 

Learn to write emails that:

💥Seed interest
💥Whip up desire
💥Overcome objections
💥Get people so excited, they race to buy the second you open the cart
💥Hook the most resistant, "nope, not gonna buy" readers
💥Sell more than you ever thought possible...
...leaving your initial "big hairy goal" in the dust

LEARN MORE HERE
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RECORDING + DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

UNPUTDOWNABLE

So - you want to make your stories so compelling, so utterly engrossing, that your reader simply can’t stop?

Duh, yeah you do. That’s the key to…

✔️ Newsletter/marketing emails 
that people open, read all the way to the end, and BUY from

✔️ Blog posts, articles, and personal essays
that people can't stop sharing

And, of course...

✔️ A bestselling book!

In this 2-hour recorded video training + recorded q&a, you'll learn:

  • Two words to avoid (almost always) when writing a flashback - and what to use instead
  • 5 ways to be funny (even if you’re writing about something heavy)
  • The "Twizzlers technique" that pumps up a flat paragraph
  • How to come to a conclusion when you don’t actually have one
  • The "pressure cooker" method of keeping your reader on pins and needles
  • Oops, way too long! How to cut words without losing your favorite parts
  • How to craft a "mic drop" of an ending

...And more! Click the button for details.

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RECORDING + DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Book Launch Hero

I’ll take you behind the scenes of my entire book launch process—

✔️ Blurb requests
✔️ Media pitches
✔️ Street team
✔️ Book mailings
✔️ Promoting on social
✔️ Getting shout-outs from influencers
✔️ Bookstore and other in-person events (AKA “touring”)

...And more. If I did it, I’ll share it.

Including all the resources you need to promote your own bestseller.

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DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Welcome Sequence Workshop

WHAT? You don't have a welcome sequence? You, my friend, are leaving so much money on that proverbial table. You're shortchanging yourself, AND your new subscribers! I'll show you the nuts and bolts of setting up a series of emails that make each new person on your email list fall in love with you and your business, and gets them exponentially more likely to drop some sweet coin with you...right out of the gate, and then again and again!

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Laura is PURE genius.

Her writing, wit, and humor are a gift to the world. She is beyond amazing at creative brainstorming and has helped me shape so so so many ideas that have become hugely profitable. She’s simply the BEST and I cannot recommend her highly enough! - Marie Forleo

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Laura makes you rich!

Just a few minutes with Laura’s genius insights drives remarkable results. One tweak or prompt from Laura gets the words out exactly the way I want to say them. I re-read and almost do a little dance! It feels like me. It’s easy to forget that being yourself is the best thing for your business. Authenticity = profitability. What Laura gets you to do —reveal the real you — makes you rich!.

- Susie Moore, columnist, author, and confidence expert

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My about page has become one of the best ice breaker tools for potential clients ever.

They love feeling like they got a sneak-peek into who I am, and often ask follow-up questions during calls that lead to the best heartfelt conversations, and ultimately lots of sales! What I really love about it, is how Laura broke the page down into fun, conversational, bite-sized bits of info... geee-nius!!!

- Elsa Isaac, stylist

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Laura's the best for anyone trying to find their voice!

Since working with Laura, I've been featured in New York Magazine, ELLE, Business Insider, and so many more. Several posts (that started out as newsletters) have gone viral and been viewed millions of times. Most importantly, I've built a community around a cause I care about in a way that feels easy and real. 

- Katherine Schafler, LMHC

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I fell in love with writing again.

I consider myself a decent writer.  Working with Laura made the process easy, fun and effective.  It made me fall in love with writing again and helped make me a better writer. 

- Gina Gomez, business strategist and advisor

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My favorite email copywriter!

And I'm not alone. Laura has been dominating affiliate partner launches, beating out the famous name stalwarts of our industry, by out-converting them in a big way. Her writing style is inventive, and (sometimes painfully) honest, and hilarious.

- Kevin Rogers, Copy Chief

Talking Shrimp Yearly Courses and Partnerships

They open, they close. Stay in the loop!

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IN-PERSON WRITING WORKSHOP

BINGEWORTHY LIVE
Writing retreat in NYC

For the first time ever, I'm offering my hotly requested writing workshop (sold out in Italy four times) in New York!
Join us March 22nd/23rd and make your writing so good, we'd snort it. A few spots left. 

JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR 2027
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SIGNATURE ONLINE COURSE

The Copy Cure

My flagship copywriting course with partner Marie Forleo. It opens just once a year, but all 365 days, we get notes like "The Copy Cure changed my writing, my business, and my life. Thank you both so much!" If you're waiting for it to open, get on the interest list and I'll send you my best copy secrets as a starter.

GET ON THE WAITLIST
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PRIVATE MASTERMIND

SHRIMP CLUB

My 8-month Live Mentoring Party (or you can call it a group coaching program /mastermind), this is THE way to get my personal help with your business and the words you use in it. Let's get you paid to be you!

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Laura makes it easy!

Laura somehow manages to make (non-sucky) copywriting feel easy, and her I love that her training is so ridiculously practical that it literally makes you a better writer almost immediately.

- Ruth Soukup, Ruth Soukup, author & podcaster, Do It Scared

More transformative than the giants of copywriting.

In 2016, I became interested in copy. I took classes, read a lot of Gary Halbert, hand copied 50 or so adverts from that same decade, even read Ogilvy On Advertising. None of this was as transformative as your 60-Minute Makeover combined with reading your emails. Take that David Ogilvy!

- Courtney Kirschbaum, career strategist

Laura cured my imposter syndrome!

Everybody who is writing, who has imposter syndrome about writing, needs to know about Laura.

- Amy Perkins, podcaster and coach

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WOWWEE.

Along with Laura's incredible ideas and wordsmithing, working together gave me greater confidence in 1) my own writing and 2) my offering.  I’m wicked happy I made this investment in her work.

- Farideh Ceasar, musician and launch strategist

Talking Shrimp Rates and Packages

The hourly copywriting fees that became an online tourist destination.

CAREFUL! You might be about to tease yourself. My 1:1 consults are currently off the market. I’ve left the old services page up purely for reading pleasure, if that's your bag, or as inspiration to freelance writers wondering, "How much can I charge for my copywriting services?" "Should I show my prices on my website?" and "How does price anchoring work?" (Also, since I wrote a couple of big articles featuring my income as a writer, the page gets so many looky-loos, I should install a café and gift shop.)

If you're dying to work with me personally, consider Shrimp Club, my 8-month live mentoring party (AKA mastermind). 

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