Why We Must Stop Pandering to the Algorithm
This morning, like many others, I woke up to a barrage of messages from my family Whatsapp group, arguing about coronavirus. Long story short: seven diametrically opposing views do not make for happy families. What has this got to...
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The Takeaways from One Year of #Write52
There we have it – somehow, in what has been the longest and shortest year of our lives, 2020 is over. We’ve all learnt a lot this year and have embarked on our own projects. Here’s hoping you can...
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Writing for SEO or Writing for Humans? The Constant Battle
Somewhere out there, hordes of SEO specialists are screaming at me: writing for Google and writing for humans are not mutually exclusive. If your content is good enough, they will say, then it should serve the purpose of keeping...
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2020: The Year That Personal Boundaries Forgot
The other night, an exchange with my co-director got me thinking about boundaries. Despite the fact that we’ve spent most of 2020 behind screens, it feels like we’re more up-close-and-personal than ever. I was absent-mindedly responding to a personal...
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Why Are We Still Pushing the Six-Figure Ideal?
A week ago, I was followed on Twitter by a chap promising to help me become a “six-figure copywriter in six months”. His pinned tweet told me he’d just won a $65 an hour job. £50 an hour. Let’s...
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Did You Start a Newsletter in Lockdown?
The year is 2002. A student, absentmindedly humming Girls Aloud, thumbs her way through the school newsletter. She feels a pang of guilt as she reads one excruciating line: “Sadly, we received no entries to our competition last month.”...
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Black Friday 2020: Retail Frenzy or Digital Disaster?
We’re one week away from Black Friday and I’m still pulling Excitable Edgar’s dragon ash out of my hair. Is it that time of year already? If you’ve not been on the internet this week, first, check your pulse,...
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Did Bad Marketing Cost Trump the Election?
Popping the cork of a Tesco Finest prosecco bottle might sound like standard practice at Katie Lingo HQ, but last Saturday there was a reason: the defeat of Donald Trump. Trump supporters, look away now. You’re about to see...
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Tone Deaf or Virtue Signalling? Watching Our Words in #Lockdown2
At the turn of November, I shared a ‘guilty’ Instagram post stating that I’d been feeling a little ‘tone deaf’ with my content. There you were, watching old Floppy Hair telling us to stay home. I was prancing around...
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Why a Second Language Will Make You a Better Writer
Those of you who’ve taken a cursory glance over my LinkedIn profile may have noticed I hold a Spanish Language and Linguistics degree. Truth be told, it’s not something I shout about too loudly, and usually only comes up...
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