by lesley | Jan 21, 2013 | Marketing, Social media
A few people have questioned my use of Twitter as a marketing tool – they see it as lightweight and trivial. “Isn’t it just for kids to chat with their friends?” they query. Yes, kids do use Twitter to chat to their friends, but it’s...
by lesley | Jun 18, 2012 | Marketing
If you’re in business you want to provide good quality products and services to your customers – or you won’t stay in business long. However, does everything you do reflect the same level of quality? I have a ‘thing’ about business cards...
by lesley | Mar 20, 2012 | Marketing
Firstly, let’s get something straight – marketing is not selling, but selling is part of the marketing process! In VERY simple terms marketing is finding a need and then fulfilling it. However, there’s quite a bit more to it than that in reality!...
by lesley | Feb 23, 2012 | Readability
It always astonishes me that English has become the predominant international language. The grammar is irregular, with many individual exceptions to learn and the vocabulary is huge with many words that mean something similar, but subtly different, not to mention the...
by lesley | Feb 12, 2012 | Marketing
As a commercial copywriter my role is to write to persuade people to take action. In order to do that I need to have essential information to get the message on target so I ask questions. Over the years I’ve realised that certain questions make a BIG...
