by lesley | Apr 22, 2011 | Social media
It’s almost impossible to avoid social media these days – unless you’ve been living in the middle of a desert for the past few years with no communication with the rest of the world. Everyone has opinions about it from ‘total waste of...
by lesley | Apr 21, 2011 | Writing Skills
When you’ve written a piece of copy the best person to edit it isn’t you! However, if you don’t have a handy editor around you’ll need to at least review it. To gain a little perspective leave it as long as possible after having written it, but...
by lesley | Apr 18, 2011 | Blogging
Many people say to me ‘I won’t be able to keep coming up with good content for my blogs’, it’s a perpetual challenge! However, there are a few tricks to generating good content. The first one is to have a dedicated brainstorming session. Get a...
by lesley | Apr 11, 2011 | Readability
These days people tend to focus on the web – and if you read the preceding blogs you’ll already have some ideas about creating copy for your website, but what about a hard copy brochure? The main purpose of a brochure is to put information about your...
by lesley | Apr 10, 2011 | Marketing
When I was young I was a prolific letter writer – I had an American pen-friend and a French pen-friend, and my Mum stood over me shortly after Christmas and birthdays, insisting that I wrote to say ‘thank you’ to my aunts and uncles who had sent...