• Why You Need One Chief and a Cast Iron Copywriting Brief

      Every business needs content. That’s a given. Whether it’s for your website, brochures, newsletters, emails or case studies, the voice and words you use will have a huge impact on your brand image and bottom line. For most companies, finding the right voice and approach is quite easy. You know your customers well, you […]

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  • Why You Need an Editorial Calendar

      When it comes to your marketing strategy, what’s one of the biggest headaches you face every week or month? I reckon it’s fairly safe to say it’s coming up with new content ideas for your blog. To maintain and drive engagement you have to generate a constant stream of great content that’s going to […]

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  • What is an Omnichannel Experience and Do You Need One?

      The marketers have been at it again. Over a coffee one morning they created a new buzzword – omnichannel. There are numerous articles about it, telling you how important it is and that you must have one. But how can you be sure you need one if you’re not 100% certain what it is? […]

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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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  • What is Predictive Intelligence and Do You Need It?

        Here we go again. A group of marketers have come up with yet another indecipherable buzzword. What is Predictive Intelligence? The best way to define it is: “…the process of finding out how consumers react to sales messages and combining those findings with their characteristics. This data is then crunched and an automated […]

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  • Why Buzzwords Are The Pits – Especially Experiential Marketing

      I’ve not had a good rant for a while, so watch out, one’s on its way – and it’s all about buzzwords (and one in particular). What’s got me so riled? The word ‘experiential’. It’s one of the latest ideas buzzing round the marketing and events industries. Experiential marketing is basically a way of […]

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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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  • Get More Engagement From Instagram

      As a copywriter, Instagram isn’t a social media channel that I’ve used for business. Yes, pictures of my dogs appear on it now and then, but that’s as far as it goes. But as one of the fastest growing social media platforms with over 200 million users, which gets 15 times more user engagement […]

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  • What Online Retailers Can Learn From Their Customers

      Millennials, Generation Y, Generation Consumer, call them what you like, but their shopping habits and preferences will tell you a lot about how you should be marketing to them. Today’s “always on” culture has formed a new breed of consumer. They want things now; they want to hear about stuff that’s important to them […]

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