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What Trump can teach us – really!

  In just a few days’ time (at the time of writing) the new leader of the free world is about to take his seat (assuming the FBI, CIA, Russian security or MI6 don’t unearth any more little surprises). You may think as a copywriter I’d be unlikely to look…
Lesley
January 16, 2017
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How to tell a story

Storytelling is a powerful marketing tool.  Get it right and it can mean the difference between a new customer and simply being ignored. There’s nothing new about storytelling – we all enjoy a good tale – but when you’re trying to win that next bit of business it’s too easy…
Lesley
December 6, 2016
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Are you sitting comfortably?

A lesson in how to think like your customer to create attention-grabbing copy. How do you go about writing copy that speaks directly to your customer and makes them take notice of what you are saying? We are all busy people and with an abundance of messages out there, both…
Lesley
November 4, 2015
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Thatcher’s assassin and the power of words

Reading this weekend’s obituaries of Geoffrey Howe it is clear how he will be remembered best ­– as “Thatcher’s assassin.” Once Margaret Thatcher’s close Cabinet ally, he turned on her in a resignation speech famous for its deadly venom. I was a political editor at Westminster in 1990, and I…
Lesley
October 12, 2015