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Tone of voice and customer experience Tone of voice and customer experience

Tone of voice should be consistent throughout the customer experience, but marketers tend to look for easier wins.

Strategy for freelances Strategy for freelances

A concise guide to developing a strategy for your freelance business.

The language of Christmas The language of Christmas

A seasonal post on the origin of some Christmassy words.

What business people really think of Twitter What business people really think of Twitter

Everyone’s on Twitter now. But what do the late adopters really think about it?

How to sell like Dom Cobb in Inception How to sell like Dom Cobb in Inception

Inception imagines a world where people can enter someone else’s dream and implant an idea. But maybe that’s not so different from what copywriters and marketers do…

Agents of conformity? Agents of conformity?

In ‘They Live’, aliens subjugate humans with subliminal messages of consumption and conformity. Just like marketers?

My most loved and hated words My most loved and hated words

Which words do you love and hate? Here are ten of my most and least favourite words.

The real price of cheap content The real price of cheap content

The quality of online content determines its value to a business. So why economise when quick, cheap content services can only compromise quality?

Magic E Magic E

Magic E turns ‘pip’ into ‘pipe’ and ‘strip’ into ‘stripe’. A classic from 1970s schools TV.