Mar 6

Boring copy kills your marketing message. Don’t waste valuable time and throw away your precious marketing dollars with writing as stale as day old bread. Here are 5 simple steps to jazz up your writing so readers will read it:

1. Write like you speak. The cardinal rule of copywriting, this will help you infuse new life into otherwise dead copy. If you find this challenging, then try talking aloud and recording what you’re trying to say in order to write it down later. Nine times out of ten, you’ll say it better than you’d ever write it.

Feb 21

There is a huge tendency in today’s competitive environment for businesses and organisations to focus on Public Relations (PR) tactics without giving any thought to strategy. Issue a press release has become a mantra whenever there is a sniff of a story or an idea to create a hook for one. The worst offenders are those that think that PR is just about securing coverage in the press and media - it’s not.