I’ve just come back from a 10 year reunion of people I used to work with, people who created a phenomenon in the beauty world. I think it’s worthy of the name legend. We did lots of reminiscing about the big event, as it changed things overnight. And you know what? Even as the team […]
Archives for March 2017
David Hieatt says you should not hire me as a writer: 3 reasons why I agree
Not the greatest endorsement from a marketing genius, and a great storyteller. Not great any time, but particularly when your business is quite new. Now, just to be clear, David wasn’t picking on me personally. He was answering a question about whether he thought you could delegate or outsource writing. His answer was […]
Give in order to get: why it’s not all about you and your business
It’s tough to get a business going, and once it’s going to keep it going. It’s very easy to just be in your own bubble, thinking you have to fight everyone else every step of the way. Camaraderie would be a weakness, a threat to sales, something to be avoided. There is a different […]
Content is more than pretty pictures or silly stories
Cute kittens. Celebrities not ageing well. Aliens in Area 51. We’ve all seen them, there’s pictures like this all over the web. And then there’s the headlines: 5 shocking facts about Brad and Angelina’s relationship Man found in jungle after 40 years stuns police Why this £39 box has supermarkets worried Which all count as […]
Don’t sell to me, solve something for me: how to create content people love
You’re in business, therefore you have something to sell. So everything you do is about the sell, right? Wrong. You might get to send a couple of sales pitches to customers, and get a bit of their attention. But when all they see from you are bits of content just pushing the hard sell, what […]