• Behind The Doors at Briar Copywriting

      Ever wondered exactly who’s behind Briar Copywriting? OK, this website gives you quite a few clues, but it doesn’t really tell you about Sally Ormond the person. Towards the end of last year, I was asked by my good friend Katherine Wildman (a fellow scribe) to take part in her “The Writing Desk” interview […]

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  • Can You Ever Be Truly Unique?

      It’s what you’re constantly told by your marketing department, marketing agency, copywriter and just about every other Tom, Dick and Harriet. If your business is to survive you must be unique. You must offer something no one else offers, work in a way no one else works and achieve things no one else has […]

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  • No, You’re Not the Market Leader, I Am

      Marketing leading. Industry leading. Cutting-edge. State-of-the-art. Innovative design. Breakthrough technology. Ground-breaking technology World-class. How many times have you come across one of those phrases on a website or in a brochure? It’s amazing how many ‘market leaders’ there are in the world. It doesn’t matter if it’s kitchen design, software, telecoms, or finance related, […]

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  • Finding Inspiration For Your Copywriting

      One of the toughest parts of copywriting is coming up with an endless stream of inspiration for website content, brochures, landing pages, emails, newsletters and every other form of marketing you can think of. Everything you write has to be relevant to the client you’re working with, everything has to be original and everything […]

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  • Move Over eCommerce, it’s Time to Make Way for Social Commerce

      eCommerce has been part of your business model for quite some time now. Over the years it has changed from a rather crude and clunky online sales experience, to an all singing all dancing smooth experience that places the customer right in the heart of everything. Although still incredibly important, eCommerce is changing – […]

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  • No One’s Engaging With My Content

      Frustrating, isn’t it? You put your heart and soul into the content you produce and yet you’re not getting any comments, likes or shares. What’s wrong with it? You’ve given it to your colleagues to read and they think it’s great, so what’s happening? Part of the problem is the amount of content there […]

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  • How to Make Your Writing More Readable

      What are you talking about? Of course my writing’s readable.   It should be to you, after all you wrote it, but what about everyone else? You know what you’re trying to say because it was in your head as you wrote it. The problem is, your ideas could have got muddled on the […]

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  • Stop Wasting Money on Content That’s Useless

      Is there such a thing as useless content? Surely every piece of content is valuable to you – otherwise why would you write it? The problem comes down to perception. Take your typical company. On one side you have the marketing department. They are tasked with creating and developing every piece of external marketing […]

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  • Too Many Copywriters Spoil the Copy

      Wow – have you seen the amount of copy needed for your project? As usual management have left it to the last minute, preferring to spend hours and hours refining the colour pallet and design rather than thinking about the content that has to be generated. Have you noticed that? The copy is always […]

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  • Why Small Businesses Are Getting Their SEO Wrong

        Oh God, not SEO again! Yeah, yeah, I’ve heard it all before – get a bunch of keywords, stick them in your site, people will find you… Err, no – if that’s what you think you’re in trouble. And no, SEO isn’t particularly time consuming, ridiculously complicated or impossibly hard. If you get […]

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