Joanna Wiebe is a Canadian copywriter known for teaching conversion copywriting, an approach that ties copy decisions to customer research and testing. According to her own site, she worked as a senior copywriter at Intuit, where she began studying conversion rate optimization, and started writing copywriting ebooks in 2010 before founding Copyhackers in 2011.
Copyhackers is operated by Wiebe Marketing Ltd, with a registered address in Edmonton, Alberta, according to the Copyhackers site. Conference and podcast bios also describe her as a co-founder of Airstory, a writing tool. Her newer personal site, joannawiebe.co, presents her as a messaging and brand strategist.
She publishes on the Copyhackers blog and on her YouTube channel, which showed 138K subscribers and 564 videos when checked on September 13, 2026. She also posts on LinkedIn, X (@copyhackers) and Instagram (@therealjoannawiebe); follower counts on those networks were not recorded.
What she sells, all with prices published on official pages as checked on September 13, 2026:
- Copy School: a library of more than 20 pre-recorded copywriting courses with templates, email Q&A and live copy review sessions. Lifetime access is listed at $2,997 USD in one payment, or in installments.
- Freelancing School: training for freelance copywriters that bundles several courses and a community, listed at $1,997 USD for lifetime access or four payments of $550.
- An intro copywriting course sold for $5 with a promo code on the Copyhackers site.
- The Big Small: group coaching for small business owners with weekly calls and quarterly in-person days in Kelowna, BC. The membership fee is not published; the in-person days are listed at about $2,000 each plus travel, and joining starts with a booked call.
- Team training and consulting: joannawiebe.co lists two-day workshops from $45,000 and custom engagements from $25,000; the Copyhackers corporate training page asks companies to book a call.
- The Copyselling System, a book published by BenBella Books in July 2026, listed by the publisher at $13.99 to $21.95 depending on format.
Self-reported figures: Copyhackers says it has trained nearly 10,000 copywriters since 2011, and her site names clients such as Canva, Prezi, BT and Glowforge. No independent source for these numbers was found.
Reputation: she has been interviewed on business podcasts such as Intercom's and speaks at marketing and software conferences (Business of Software, CXL Live and MicroConf, per her own site). A web search on September 13, 2026 for her name together with "lawsuit" and "criticism" did not turn up any press report, court case or regulatory action. Canadian corporate records for Wiebe Marketing Ltd were not checked because OpenCorporates did not load.