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30 Jan 2019
The copywriter says no: five unreasonable client requests and how to handle them
How do you answer the tricky questions clients often ask, politely and assertively? Jenny Lucas has some suggestions.
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25 Jan 2019
Win £100 Book Token by Completing Our Survey
Expand your library with £100 in book tokens. You just need to complete our survey and share it on Twitter.
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23 Jan 2019
7 ways to stop writing the obvious
Lorraine Forrest-Turner’s guide to booting tired words and phrases out of your copy.
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17 Jan 2019
Voicebox – the tone of voice workshop in a box
Katherine Wildman grills Nick Parker on Voicebox – his tone of voice workshop-in-a-box.
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16 Jan 2019
6 tips for writers pitching editors and agencies
Editors and agencies, how do you build up effective working relationships with them? Tony Hallett of Collective Content gives us his dos and don’ts.
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13 Jan 2019
My first 5 years as a freelance copywriter
Alice Hollis considers how her life has changed since she ditched the 9 to 5 and started her copywriting business.
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09 Jan 2019
10 business lessons I learned in a 9-line email from my child’s nursery
Jo Watson shares the marketing tips she got from an unlikely source.
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20 Dec 2018
How to cope when your writing’s rejected
Your writing’s not going to hit the mark all the time. Abigail Dillon shares some ways to deal with it when it doesn’t.
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19 Dec 2018
My first six months as a freelancer
Matthew Dryzmala’s account of the start of his foray into the world of freelancing.
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13 Dec 2018
Our 2019 survey of copywriters is now live. Please take 7 minutes to share your experiences, anonymously.
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13 Dec 2018
Copywriting and content design — what’s the difference?
What’s content design and what’s its relationship to copywriting? Sarah Richards explains.
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12 Dec 2018
Speak another language? You could offer multilingual copywriting
Fuschia Hutton on how having another language may help you add a string to your copywriting bow.
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