Is Swearing the Secret to Better Marketing?
*Disclaimer: this article contains swearing in abundance. Please look away now if you’re easily offended. You’ve probably noticed that there’s a little more swearing on LinkedIn lately. Perhaps we’ve all let our guard down during the pandemic. Maybe we’re...
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Lessons in Public Speaking, Courtesy of My Nan
LinkedIn was a quiet place in March. The dulcet tones of Katie Lingo and the Friday posts to which you could set your watch were nowhere to be seen. In the streets, the children screamed. The lovers cried and...
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The COVID Age Is No Place For Viral Campaigns
Lessons from Twitter, Burger King and Ultravox A sleepy Sunday viewing of Britain’s Favourite 80s Songs left an indelible message in my head. While discussing the new wave discography of 1981, radio DJ Paul Gambaccini made a passing comment:...
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Should We Give Advice for Free?
Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth. Great. She’s gone all Sunscreen...
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Six Uncomfortable Truths About Copywriting
“Accept certain inalienable truths. Prices will rise; politicians will philander. You too will get old.” There are some truths in life we cannot escape, and not just those we hear in weird 90s essay-cum-Baz-Luhrmann-hits. Like death, taxes and household...
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We Need to Talk About Alcohol
Of all the revelations from the last 12 months, one of the most ‘sobering’ was a grim statistic: alcohol-related deaths have hit a record high. Data from the ONS states that 5,460 deaths between January and September 2020 were...
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So, You Wanna Be on TV?
When I asked my fellow writing pals if my trysts with reality TV would make for engaging content, I didn’t think they would actually say yes. Welcome to January 2021, where inspiration is lacking, but stubbornness prevails. I have...
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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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