• How to Improve Your Blogging

      How can you get better at blogging? Practice. You won’t be a success over night because you have to build an audience, find your own blogging personality and spend time testing different approaches until you find the one that suits your audience. Sound hopeless? It’s not. Here are 7 simple things you can do […]

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  • The Rise of The Selfie [Infographic]

    The Selfie is fast becoming a popular form of marketing for companies. What began as a harmless bit of fun, taking a snap shot of yourself in an interesting (or not so interesting) place, has turned into something exploited by celebrities to grab a few extra headlines and now, something that’s being adopted by businesses […]

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  • The 2 Best Ways to Ruin Your Email Marketing Campaign

    Are there any tricks to email marketing? In a word, no. Of course, great copy, design and images will all help your email get opened, read and actioned, but there are no ‘tricks’ to success. The only way to get results is to avoid dodgy practices. How to lose subscribers If you want to lose […]

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  • What Makes a Website Successful?

      Yes, being a copywriter I’m slightly biased on this one and, if pushed, would have to say it’s the copy on your website, but that’s not what this post is about. That’s right, I’m not going to talk about copywriting. The one thing that makes a website successful is the one thing that’s constantly […]

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  • How Video Will Get Your Business Noticed

    The best marketing strategy your business can have is a varied one. Just publishing high quality content, although important, isn’t enough. Your customers are all very different (even though they face common issues which bring them to you) and like to receive information in different ways. That’s why the content you produce should be in […]

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  • Creating Powerful Press Releases [Infographic]

    How good are you at telling the world about your achievements? Press releases seem to be dying. Few companies use them to their full potential. Regardless of whether you want to use them on line or off, they can generate a huge amount of interest in your company and don’t have to cost the earth […]

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  • 9 Steps to Powerful Copywriting

    Writing is the easiest thing in the world, isn’t it? You’ve been doing it since before primary school. Your skills have developed from the scribbles and lines your mum swore blind was your name to lengthy essays about the fermentation of yeast. It’s something you do every single day so writing for your business can’t […]

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  • Long Live the Lifestyle Business

    “Ah, it’s great you’ve found yourself a nice little job.” Argh! That’s the type of comment I had to deal with all the time when I set up my copywriting business 7 years ago. Yes, I was mum to two small boys (now mum to two hulking great teenagers) at the time and yes, I […]

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  • Freelance Hero Worship – is there room for it in business?

      At every stage of your life you’ll have a hero. I’ve flitted from Hartley Hare (Pipkins) to the Banana Splits, to Duran Duran and all manner of movie stars I shan’t bore you with. You want to be like them…no scrap that…you want to be them. You want their lives, their personalities; you want […]

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  • Social Customer Services – Are You Making the Most of it?

    Last night I watched the Channel 4 documentary “The Complainers”. No one’s impressed when things go wrong, so some of the reactions of the people on the programme were understandable (although I do have an issue with the guy who was a professional complainer who’s sole aim was to get compensation from every company possible), […]

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